the.com/munchies
The hunger that shows up uninvited right after you get high and stays for pizza.
means A sudden craving for snack food, especially the kind that hits after smoking cannabis.
from From 'munch,' meaning to chew noisily, which goes back to Middle English 'monchen' — probably imitative, just mimicking the sound of eager chewing. 'Munchies' as snack food is attested from the mid-20th century, but it's the pairing with marijuana slang in the 1970s that gave the word its specific, famous craving — cannabis is known to stimulate appetite, and the slang caught up to the science.
- the cause
- THC spikes ghrelin, the hunger hormone
- brain trick
- smell and taste receptors get temporarily turbocharged
- science era
- confirmed by neuroscientists only in 2014
- peak target
- salty or sweet beats savory every time