crunchy_etymology epitome of incomprehensibility I almost don’t want to do the research – I like my theory too much. My theory? That granola is crunchy! Let me explain: On YouTube, I stumbled across comedy shorts about a "crunchy mom," in which "crunchy" meant being hippieish/DIY/all-natural...often but not always about food...and sometimes to an annoying extent. But why "crunchy"?? Is homemade food inherently crunchier?? Is kombucha crunchy??? Then I remembered cartoon strips about Lola Granola, one of Opus the penguin’s human entourage, and the phrase "granola girl." Nicely alliterative, but also showing how the concept is often gendered. Anyway...granola is crunchy. Lexical association! But there’s also a generation gap – I’m not sure people my age would necessarily remember "granola" as slang, and since "crunchy" is used by people younger than me… I don’t know. 231003 ... e_o_i Mom and Dad both said they'd never heard of that use of "granola," but Dad said the cereal used to be called "crunchy granola" to distinguish it from stuff that you'd cook and make soft, like oatmeal. 231004 ... e_o_i Woah, so it turns out I'm right (as I am once in a cradle-like yellow moon!) Several websites, including The Online Slang Dictionary and Wikipedia, say "crunchy" comes from "granola." I am...moderately crunchy? 231004 ... e_o_i Not etymology, but cute: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XEn1iYHn3eQ 231025 what's it to you? who go blather from