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The Rise of ‘Hangry’: A Modern Word for a Timeless Feeling
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1454" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.eater.com/2019/9/11/20860752/how-we-started-saying-adulting-hangry-lexicon" target="_blank"><strong>The Rise of ‘Hangry’: A Modern Word for a Timeless Feeling - Eater</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>From Etsy signs to Snickers ad campaigns, ‘hangry’ is the word (and feeling) we can’t get away from </strong></p><p></p><p>On the bus through Tuscany, I thought only of death. It was a perfectly beautiful day; outside, an endless range of sun-drenched, undulating hills, the kind that calls American women to give up their busy, money-driven lives in favor of romance and adventure found between wine tastings. But I could not see the appeal of the landscape or the rom-com I could potentially star in. Instead I was consumed with how annoying everyone on my tour bus was, how my friend next to me wouldn’t stop talking, how uncomfortable the seat was. I grumbled, I shot daggers from my eyes; I was in paradise and I was miserable.</p><p></p><p>By now, you probably have a word in your head for what I was feeling: <em>hangry</em>. And yet, in 2006, I didn’t know that word. Yes, I knew I got preternaturally cranky when I didn’t eat, a fun pit stop between my normal state and fainting, but there was no catch-all phrase for it, maybe because it seemed too obvious and universal of a feeling to need one. Because of course people get angry when they’re hungry. Being hungry sucks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1454, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.eater.com/2019/9/11/20860752/how-we-started-saying-adulting-hangry-lexicon'][B]The Rise of ‘Hangry’: A Modern Word for a Timeless Feeling - Eater[/B][/URL] [B] From Etsy signs to Snickers ad campaigns, ‘hangry’ is the word (and feeling) we can’t get away from [/B] On the bus through Tuscany, I thought only of death. It was a perfectly beautiful day; outside, an endless range of sun-drenched, undulating hills, the kind that calls American women to give up their busy, money-driven lives in favor of romance and adventure found between wine tastings. But I could not see the appeal of the landscape or the rom-com I could potentially star in. Instead I was consumed with how annoying everyone on my tour bus was, how my friend next to me wouldn’t stop talking, how uncomfortable the seat was. I grumbled, I shot daggers from my eyes; I was in paradise and I was miserable. By now, you probably have a word in your head for what I was feeling: [I]hangry[/I]. And yet, in 2006, I didn’t know that word. Yes, I knew I got preternaturally cranky when I didn’t eat, a fun pit stop between my normal state and fainting, but there was no catch-all phrase for it, maybe because it seemed too obvious and universal of a feeling to need one. Because of course people get angry when they’re hungry. Being hungry sucks. [/QUOTE]
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