If you're like us, food is permanently on the brain. However Sainsbury's has found that on average, Brits spend six years of their life thinking and talking about food.
Yep, according to the supermarket, we think, plan and talk about food for more than 16 hours a week on average. That's even more time than we spend talking about the weather!
But when it comes to describing our food, apparently our vocab is quite limited, with the average Brit regularly using only six words to describe taste.
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'Delicious,' 'tasty' and 'nice' are just a few words Brits use on a regular basis to describe food, with 26% of us relying on emojis instead.
Susie Dent, whose face you'll probably recognise from Countdown's 'Dictionary Corner,' has instead offered some alternative adjectives. Here are six of our favourite:
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- Neptunian (carrying a strong flavour of the sea)
- Fire-fanged (having a scorched appearance or taste)
- Lickerous (sweet and tempting)
- Hogo (highly flavoured or seasoned)
- Conflagrant (inducing a peppery or hot sensation)
- Barnyardy (characteristics of a barnyard. i.e. blue cheese or beer)
So there you go, next time you're snapping a picture of your food for social media, thinking of a better way beyond a 'smiley face' to describe it. Now... we're off to make suaveolent hot chocolate (look it up!)
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Vicky is our Food & Drink Director, where she oversees strategy and content across all of Hearst's brands, from recipe development to fun video franchises and everything in between.
With almost a decade's experience, Vicky was previously Editor of Delish UK, and Digital Food Editor of Good Housekeeping and she lives and breathes food content creation.
Outside of work, Vicky loves learning about wine, eating her way around the world, and hanging out with her dog Pickle.
