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单词 Frankenfood
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Frankenfood

/ˈfraŋk(ə)nfuːd /
noun [mass noun] informal, derogatory
Genetically modified food: they want to sell us Frankenfood [count noun]: lab-engineered Frankenfoods...
  • National furor over Frankenfood resulted in the healthiest, yet most sickly produce you can imagine: tomatoes the size of grapes, spotty Granny Smiths you can down in two bites, and you don't even want to know from the greens.
  • Some of the first campaigners against genetically modified foods staked their case on the chance that something truly shocking would result from the new crop strains - some Frankenfood would poison or sterilize or mutate us all.
  • But there's such a battle and a difference of opinion in the way Europe looks at this, Frankenfood, and the way the U.S. looks at this, basically acceptance.

Origin

1990s: from Frankenstein + food.

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