Food and cooking metaphors: Barbara Shepherd and Dave Shepherd explore the joys of cooking and eating by talking about food metaphors.
Dave points listeners to the Deutsch 4 Podcast. Dave recently met with Bob Wright of the Baseball History Podcast when Bob was in DC for a conference of food bank volunteers and workers. Today’s topic came from a thread on the forum started by bnt. (1:53)
Food metaphors in everyday language (6:57)
Music bumper from “Beautiful Food” by Edan (17:14)
Cooking metaphors; people as food; American diner slang (17:53)
Song: “Food Chain” by Ric Seaberg (24:58)
Rude word of the week: “eat shit” (29:45)
Music bumper from “Finger Food” by the Shook-Russo Quartet (33:19)
Insights from a non-American (Thanks, bnt!) (34:01)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network and IODA Promonet
Theme music by Kick the Cat
Closing music from “Grapes” by Evan Stone
time: 38:41
size: 35.4 Mb
rating: R (This is probably the rudest Rude Word that Dave and Barbara have had so far.)
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Loved the food episode. I did a spit take with my coffee when I heard the English take on the rude word, you know,that certain grin. I was in stitches.
As for food, I was surprised that you didn’t bring up the food metaphor that touches all of us: salary.
If I’m not mistaken, salary is a latin term for salt money. Salt being an invaluable preserver of perishable items.
Keep up the great work!
Josh
Frank and Ernest by Alexandra Day is a wonderful children’s book about the diner life. It also has a great little diner-term glossary in the back. It was one of my favourite’s as a kid and this episode reminded me of it.
Another marvelously coprophagic podcast!
I loved this show. I hope you guys got my email about the pathology terms… I have to admit I was slightly disappointed you didn’t mention the nutmeg liver. It’s my favorite hepatic pathology!
Hi Hillary! We did get your email about pathology terms. (I need to forward it to Barbara.) Alas, I didn’t know of these terms; and of course, we only got your educational email after we had recorded and posted.
Hi, I am a newcomer to your podcast and must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the food metaphors. I listen to podcasts while I’m out running, and when you read the post by “bnt,” I had to stop running for a minute because I was laughing so hard. Keep up the great work, fellow nerds!
As we approached the “rude word of the week”, I was contemplating what it could be and thought you might choose, “toss my salad”. It’s a relatively new sexual metaphor.
I also thought you might look into “settle your hash”, an older one about teaching someone a lesson. Apparently, there is just too much food for thought…
I’ve been ruminating on this some more
Eat me, is another candidate for the rude word.
hi guys, just wanted to say i love the show, have listened to several with my wordy wife marie. thanks for playing my song “food chain”. best regards, ric
As soon as you got to the rude word of the week, I knew exactly where you were going. As a food server, I often mentally manipulate the power dynamic inherent in the personal contact involved with that position. It’s always a real shocker when someone is rude to someone who is going to be bringing them food and beverage for which to sustain themselves. I recently read an article about people, especially bosses or others in power, are unapologetically rude to service staff is a good indicator about how they really value others. In short, I’ve taken to making the extended form of the rude word of the week to an anagram, “E-S-A-D,” that thus makes it explicit to my congnisenti coworkers about the type of guests with whom I am dealing. And therefore it’s not so rude that I can’t say it in front of the very individuals I’m wishing biological harm on. Not that I’d ever endager anyone in my line of work. But in my mind. . . they get their “just deserts.” Nice and steamin’ hot!
[okay, that last bit was rude]