Is There Anything to the Panic Over Ultraprocessed Foods?

[Eddy Edson]

Informed & non-pearl-clutchy Slate piece: https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/ultraprocessed-foods-parenting-health.html

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[Ditto]

What is 'pearl clutchy'?

Interesting article. 🙂

 

[Bruce Stephens]

What is 'pearl clutchy'?

Urban Dictionary: Clutching My Pearls

a moment in time that forces one to clasp their hand to their chest, out of fear or shock, as if trying to protect an imaginary pearl necklace. A new phrase among the gay Maryland circle

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[Ditto]

I never heard of that! Quite funny really. 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Urban Dictionary: Clutching My Pearls

a moment in time that forces one to clasp their hand to their chest, out of fear or shock, as if trying to protect an imaginary pearl necklace. A new phrase among the gay Maryland circle

www.urbandictionary.com

I was thinking more of this one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pearl-clutching

a very shocked reaction, especially one in which you show more shock than you really feel in order to show that you think something is morally wrong:

Talking about sex always causes a bit of pearl-clutching.

His fake pearl-clutching was only intended to make her angry.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I was thinking more of this one: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pearl-clutching

That's much better definition.

 

[mikeyB]

...and there's me thinking this thread might be about ultraprocessed foods

 

[Inka]

That's much better definition.

I like the definition that says it’s a lame sexist and ageist phrase mocking older women.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Informed & non-pearl-clutchy Slate piece: https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/ultraprocessed-foods-parenting-health.html

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Seems to boil down to the vagaries of definition again. But I don’t think that (yet) puts these frankenfoods in the clear.

Maybe ultraprocessed isn’t enough? Hyperprocessedhyperplatable?

Which makes me smile because it looks like one of the convoluted chemical names you see in tiny print on food labels. 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

I like the definition that says it’s a lame sexist and ageist phrase mocking older women.

Now you say it, can certainly be seen that way, apols. Anyway, it's certainly a lazy cliche now & best avoided, I confess.

 

[Robert459]

Maybe another russian bot ?