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Tomorrow's lunch, tonight's silent agreement to pretend you'll stop at one plate.
means Food left uneaten after a meal, kept to be eaten later.
from A straightforward compound of 'left' (remaining, from Old English lǣfan, to leave behind) plus 'over' (in excess, beyond what's used). The word is a plain workhorse coinage, first showing up in general use in the 1800s — no hidden story, just English stacking two simple words to name a simple fact: there's more than got eaten.
- flavor physics
- starches reset overnight, which is why pasta tastes better reheated
- fridge lifespan
- most cooked food is safe three to four days, not a week
- etymology
- from left plus over, literally what's left standing
- freezer loophole
- freezing basically pauses leftovers' expiration clock indefinitely