Test your fatty vocabulary

August 20, 10:26 AMDenver Food ExaminerAndrea Spikes

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Recently I ran across this list of handy terms, all pointing to the American obesity epidemic. Not only are we now painfully aware of our collective failure from food manufacturing to the fast food culture, we are apparently creating terms to help us (tongue-in-cheek) remember what direction our girth is going:

Kindergarchy: A culture in which young children basically rule their households and their every demand is met by their parents, including demands for "food" that seems to be created to do little more than shorten their lifespans.

Fanny state: “Nanny state” refers to a government which creates laws, regulations and agencies in order to inform and protect people with regard to dangerous or unhealthy foods and activities (don't let me choose, whatever you do!). "Fanny state", on the other hand, describes a state where nothing whatsoever is done to stop people from eating as much as they want, of whatever they want, as often as they want (line up to the hog trough and pour some trans-fat on your fried lard-bucket meal).

Fatterday: Typically either Saturday or Sunday, Fatterday can be any day that involves barbecues, dinner parties, picnics, banquets, tailgaters or other events that basically ruin Americans’ attempts to stick to their diets.

Stunt burger: (my personal favorit) Any hamburger that is so grotesquely oversized, layered with bacon and cheese and fried onions and other sweet nothings, and packed with fat and calories that it is more joke than food, and barely qualifies as sane, let alone healthy. Remind you of anything, like a commercial featuring a slob smushing a burger across his face? Or maybe something that is supposed to make you feel "special"? Hm? Ring any bells?