Grief Bacon

Another one from the Meaning of Tingo book, and its another German word - kummerspeck - which is the word to describe "the excess weight gained from emotion-related overeating." As opposed to excess weight gained from overeating for any other reason I suppose, but how can you tell? Are Germans able to look at a plump person and tell instantly whether the extra pounds are from emotion-related overeating or just from plain greed-related overeating?

And would it be wrong for a politically-correct, good European to suggest that if Eskimos can have dozens of words for snow, since it dominates their lives and environment, that the Germans should have ultra-specific nuances for obesity? Being a bit of a porker myself I should leave that subject well alone I think!

The word kummerspeck translates literally as grief bacon, and that was what struck me as a great name for a band.

Grief Bacon would be rock rather than dance, folk or pop I think. Guitar-based anyway. For some reason I get a mental impression of them being punky ska revivalists but maybe that is just a subconscious association with the word (and band) Rancid.

(I suppose I could have used a photo of John Prescott instead of Nicholas Soames but that would have been too obvious.)