| rdfs:comment | - Smörgåsbord is derived from ancient Norse. In the first and second centuries, during the rise of First Wave feminism, men often uttered exclamations such as 'smörg' and 'åsbord' — having just beheld an åbundance of fööd, or, synonymously, the large posterior of a woman. It was much later that Master Chef James Barf used the term on a culinary offering, adapting the off-color Norse expletive to describe a big-ass meal.
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| abstract | - Smörgåsbord is derived from ancient Norse. In the first and second centuries, during the rise of First Wave feminism, men often uttered exclamations such as 'smörg' and 'åsbord' — having just beheld an åbundance of fööd, or, synonymously, the large posterior of a woman. Just as one now might chance to hear such expletives as 'poppycock' or 'fiddlesticks' being exclaimed as a natural, innate reaction to injury, so too did the men of old, barely able to articulate, spew out random noises in reaction to what some rappers today, with no regard for manners or general gentlemanly linguistics, would call 'a rotund rear', or what Adam Richman would call 'an average-sized burger weighing in at 3½ pounds.' Or junk-in-the-trunk; there is a veritable smörgåsbord of euphemisms. Any of these random exclamations soon became intrinsically tied with big hunks of meat, whether dead or alive, hence the modern use of the term. It was much later that Master Chef James Barf used the term on a culinary offering, adapting the off-color Norse expletive to describe a big-ass meal.
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