Munchie Movement

As being someone who has always been afraid of the light night munchie attack I was expecting to read about a new healthy bakery.

How dare you take another word from our English lexicon and turn it into something else. How dare the word be used in this way.

Munchies is a word I remember from childhood with fondness. It seems it is now no longer a child friendly word. How dare you!

Brownies with M & Ms, a childhood favorite were always called munchies. How misleading that we can't keep these traditional names for the next generation.

How dare you!

How dare you? Huh?

Has anyone tried burning fat with just eating?

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A bit too late to try to play dictionary police; this term has been widely associated with marijuana-triggered appetite for decades. Not really the fault of this blog writer.

English is a very fluid language and isn't subject to academic review for new usage approval. New words, definitions and usage constantly appear in this language (e.g. “selfie").

"been widely associated with marijuana-triggered appetite for decades."

I can vouch for that term being widely in use in the very early 70's; that has it closing in on almost 50 years.

I think you misunderstand me.

The idea of using the word munchie meaning baked goods containing pot is fine if you know that is what the article is about. But, using it in a headline in a blog that is normally for recommendations of good restaurant options and healthy eating is what I object to. This type of click bait is terrible. What if a child looking for brownies with M & Ms came across this?

No, we have to remember that not everybody is OK with pot. Not everybody is OK with combining an everyday child friendly blog to suddenly have a headline that gets people like me, have no interest in anything to do with pot, suddenly inundated with pot articles.

Leave the headlines so as to have no confusion. I don't care what the article is about and I can choose whether to open it or not. But don't mislead the general population, changing a very respectable word into clickbait for something that is a cult and federally illegal.

That is unethical and very poor journalism. How dare you deliberately try to mislead.

True journalism died in the Nineties. This is the world we live in.

Plus adult marijuana consumption has been legalized by this state's electorate.

Media consumption by minors should be monitored by adults if you care that much.

Don't forget that pop music is a far greater influence on minors than some blog written by some random person over forty. Some rapper is going to be more persuasive to kids re: drug use than some middle-aged olf fart like me.

Remember that no one can please everyone all the time, and we're not just talking about Embarcardero Media bloggers.

Ooooh, somebody's harshing my mellow.

>This type of click bait is terrible.

This writer specializes in click bait. Sexy headlines and double entendres are a specialty. I no longer take the bait.

@ Resident, I know exactly what the blog was about specifically because the word "Munchies" has changed. The accepted meaning by the general public has changed. I don't mind the author talking about this nor do I mind her talking about wine even though the latter is a deadly poison directly responsible for uncountable deaths.

Sometimes society changes without our permission and the initial definition of a word may change as well, but it doesn't mean you should stop being the gay person you usually are ;)

Relax. Everything's going to be OK.

Readers, blogs are not "journalism." They are personal opinions and experiences shared by the writer.

To Resident, welcome to The Food Party! We are a potluck and glad you could make it. But you must be new The Party!, because there is nothing odd, daring, new or surprising about my title. We talk about all types of food eating, food culture, taboos - everything here at The Food Party! Said in another way - we are not just a place to find a new recipe, though we have put out a lot of great ones these past four years, and I encourage you to try a few. This week's title, especially coming the week after writing that I was broadcasting live from Hippie Hill about the food there, is perfectly in sync, in line, and to be expected.

But I like your spunk so please come back. :)

The Munchie Movement is actually an organization in the East Bay that provides food, water and cannabis to local homeless communities. We are not an edible or food related company, but an organization with a positive cause worth checking out:

www.munchiemovement.com

(That is our banner booth in that photo)