Speaking of Food-Related Neologisms ...
So you all think locavore is a terrible word?
How 'bout this terribly awesome word: lolcavore.
It's a portmanteau of lolcat and locavore, of course. A reader of the blog Language Log came up with it and Photoshopped this lolcat-style image to go along with it: "I could not help misreading locavore/localvore as being prefixed by lol-, and then could not help but apply appropriate text to a photo... resulting in the pic."
All you locavore haters, heads-up: The woman in the photo is Jessica Prentice, the coiner of the term you loathe. [via Talley Sue]
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Locavore: 2007 Word of the Year
Locavore vs. localvore: the coiner speaks [Language Log]
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