snackcident

English

Noun

snackcident (countable and uncountable, plural snackcidents)

  1. Alternative spelling of snaccident.
    • 2005 November 29, Connie Midey, “Have a snack plan: Keep healthful foods on hand to satisfy the munchies”, in The Arizona Republic, 116th year, number 195, Phoenix, Ariz., page E3, column 2:
      Before the first commercial, your spoon is scraping the bottom of the ice-cream container. Oops! You’ve just had a “snackcident.” […] Forethought can help you enjoy the benefits of snacking wisely and avoid the shame of a “snackcident,” dietitians Melinda Johnson and Felicia Stoler say.
    • 2006 April 10, Connie Midey, “Avoid snackcident: Keep healthful foods on hand to satisfy the munchies”, in Tucson Citizen, Tucson, Ariz., page 7
    • 2009, Adam Morgan, “Monsters and Other Challenges: Gaining Clarity on the Center”, in Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, part 2 (The Eight Credos of Successful Challenger Brands), pages 68–69:
      Thus LesserEvil snacks describe themselves as being “the antidote to snackcidents.” What is a snackcident? The company helpfully defines it for you: Snack • ci • dent [snǎk-si-duh nt] n. 1. The consumption of a snack that leaves you unsatisfied and/or remorseful
    • 2009, Robin Palmer, “Dylan”, in Geek Charming, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 48:
      “Um, would someone like to tell me what’s going on here?” I asked as I plopped down on a matching suede club chair and held my breath so I couldn’t smell the cookies and risk triggering a snackcident.
    • 2012, Michael Coupland, chapter 3, in The Dentist and the Octopus, Lightwood Books, →ISBN, page 31:
      She was a little on the chubby side but she wasn’t bothered. Snackcidents were going to happen when she worked in an ice cream cabin and constantly argued that she was bound to eat the odd scoop of napoleon and drink half a bottle of strawberry sauce every now and then.
    • 2017 September, Caroline Gray, editor, Easy Food, number 124, Zahra Publishing Ltd, →ISSN:
      By planning your diet, those dreaded ‘snackcidents’ are also curbed.
    • 2019 April 4, “Share a laugh: Battle of the bulge”, in James P. Sachetti, editor, Press Enterprise, Bloomsburg, Pa., page 10, column 4:
      I didn’t mean to gain weight, it just happened by snackcident.
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