Sunday | November 26, 2006 | 8:05 PM
Grief Bacon

Bacon factory.

I’m back in New York from my Ohio Thanksgiving vacation and thinking about gluttony. According to Adam Jacot De Boinod, who wrote a book about non-English words that don’t have English counterparts, the Germans have a word, Kummerspeck, for the excess weight one gains from emotion-related overeating. It translates literally as “grief bacon.”

That is awesome.