The word "chunk" somehow devolved from "chuck" — the squarish cut of meat — and "chuck," like "cluck," is the English speaker's reproduction of the sound a chicken makes.
"Chunk" is a notably American word. Here are some of the quotes collected by the (unlinkable) OED:
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 15 A chunk of frozen walrus-beef....
1833 J. Hall Legends of West 50 If a man got into a chunk of a fight with his neighbour, a lawyer would clear him for half a dozen muskrat skins....
a1860 New York in Slices, Theatre (Bartl.), Now and then a small chunk of sentiment or patriotism or philanthropy is thrown in....
1894 Congress. Rec. 13 July 7445/1 Just one moment, my friend. You are a lawyer... Yes, a chunk of a lawyer.
1907 Chicago Tribune 8 May 7 (advt.) It's really ridiculous the way we've knocked chunks off these Spring overcoat prices.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiii. 148 Eustace and I both spotted that he had dropped a chunk of at least half a dozen pages out of his sermon-case as he was walking up to the pulpit.
1957 T. S. Eliot On Poetry & Poets 49 Crabbe is a poet who has to be read in large chunks, if at all.
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One man's chunk is another man's clod.
Chunk ho.
That was once on my list of potential band names: The Chunks
Donald J. Chunk
I'm just a chunk, a chunk of burning love
Chipmunks.
Chunkmips.
Mipchunks.
I liked Chunky, but then I accidentally got one with raisins -- RAISINS!! -- in it.
Never bought another one.
Things fall apart.
Into chunks of things.
Not with a bang or a whimper.
But with a chunking sound.
I like the concept of information chunking.
Chunky candy made the mistake of being thick, which ruins the taste experience. You want thin for taste.
Try it with slices of brick cheese and see. Extra sharp chedder is a good test case.
"I liked Chunky, but then I accidentally got one with raisins -- RAISINS!! -- in it."
I thought Chunky always had raisins. That was the original Chunky. Maybe they de-raisinized it since it was so disgusting, but I never went near a Chunky because just the idea of chocolate with raisins tainted the brand.
Raisinettes... ever get them at Halloween? I remember them in the glass cases at movie theaters, along with that other candy that seemed to be for display purposes only: Jujubes. Did anyone buy that stuff? The only edible movie theater candy in the early 1960s was Sno-caps.
"The Chunky candy bar was introduced in the late 1930s by New York City candy maker, Philip Silvershein. Looking for a name for his candy bar, then made with cashews, chocolate, raisins and Brazilian nuts, he decided on Chunky, the nickname of his 'chunky' granddaughter."
So where did hunk come from?
better marketing: candy truncated pyramid or candy bar?
Well, that big dumb blonde
With her wheel in the gorge
And Turtle, that friend of theirs
With his checks all forged
And his cheeks in a chunk
With his cheese in the cash
They’re all gonna be there
At that million dollar bash
What the hell is wrong with chocolate and raisins? Check your privilege. Or something.
I looked up Arnold Stang on wiki. He got his start on radio. When you think about it, his voice exactly sounds what he looks like. He wasn't sickly. He lived past ninety. Wiki gives as one of his credits a tv role where he plays a mummy who gets conned into a game of strip poker by a group of unscrupulous archeologists.
When I was in high school, there were pure chocolate Chunky Bars. That's was I would get (if there weren't any Charleston Chews) -- until the fateful day when I got the original.
Nichevo there is nothing worse, cookie-wise, than *thinking* you're getting oatmeal chocolate chip and actually biting into -- having your teeth and tongue touch!! -- an oatmeal raisin cookie.
Arnold Stang was great in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Macbeth is notable for its odd words and neologisms. One line has always confounded me:
Macbeth to his wife, "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck." (Act II, Scene 3)
Are we to conclude that Lady Macbeth is a bit squarish, about as broad as she is tall?
Mad, quite right, the horror beggars description; but that's not raisins and chocolate. That's raisins and concrete, or raisins and dried glue, or something. Not the poor raisins' fault. Raisinettes are superb as is the Chunky bar.
Althouse only likes what is bad. In fairness she is dying of anosmia so she should probably not talk about food at all.
Does oatmeal chocolate exist?
In defense of chocolate with raisins, isn't a Cadbury Fruit & Nut bar superior to any Hershey product?
Damn! Now I must go out and buy a chocolate bar. Immediately!
Q, that's because foreigners use real sugar in their candies, also more likely better dairy products. See UK vs US Rolos.
Chipmunks.
Members of a religious order devoted to carpentry.
Actually a variant form of chitmunk, derived from an Ojibwe word meaning squirrels.
Quaestor/Nichevo - I believe the difference between Cadbury and Hershey is not sugar but whole milk vs. skim milk, respectively. The skim milk results in a Hershey having a slightly more sour (or less sweet) taste. Each brand this by choice and think their product is better for it.
Surfers often use the word chunky as a description of waves. Usage: The waves are pretty chunky and washed out today with the onshore wind.
"Does oatmeal chocolate exist?
Stout.
I go for Lindt 90% chocolate bars. Start with only tiny pieces at a time, say a quarter of one of the scored sqaures. Repeat in a few hours.
Soon no other chocolate tastes any good.
As a home brewer from way back I can say there is no chocolate in stout. The "chocolate" flavor comes from caramelized oats.
Have you heard of chunk as a verb? I have, we used to call them hillbillies, but the words they used were "them boys were chunkin' rocks at us." I think it is probably a southern term but maybe started much further back in the British Isles somewhere.
I like to think of Chip Ahoy as a Chunk off the old block, not just a lil Chip.
At times I am glad my mind works alone; other times not.
Chip "Chunk" Ahoy I just thought the other day.
Ambrose, that may be the dairy component I mentioned. However there is also the sugar/HFCS divide, and I am convinced there is a difference at least in texture. Corn grainy, sugar smooth.
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Buckley was indeed proved correct: It Didn't Work.
My brain, perhaps brainwashed indeed, says a great part to that answer is Traitorous Democrats like in/after Vietnam.
I just don't know what to think anymore.
Snarking is funny if I get paid, and laugh at the idiots who pay me to snark them.
Without the money though? It's not so much fun laughing at all of you in front of your back.
"Have you heard of chunk as a verb?"
I also heard "chunk" as verb down South. When I asked where to take my garbage when I could not wait for pickup day as I was going back to Wisconsin, I was told "Well, I would just chunk it into a mall garbage can at night"
Maybe a "chunk" is a slightly illegal throw, not just a throw.
Fitz and the Tantrums
Tell Me What Ya Here For
(Deluxe Bonus Edition)
That's all I got; ALL I GOT YO!
Campbell's Chunky Chicken Soup
"So chunky you'll be tempted to eat it with a fork"
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Meade wrote: Chunk Ho
Hasn't poor Rosie had enough grief?
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Fitz and Tantrums
Plus the Great Ann Barnhardt
And Mark Steyn now.
Looks like anonymous doucheness becomes one.
Good God I am almost 40.
I can't say I won't be back tomorrow snarkin corsely, crudeness the level of affectiveness, but by God I hope I am not.
I got me three reasons now, good ones, interacting in my dreams like dreams of an American, of Orson Welles' Chuck Foster Kane simulacrum fame dreams, saying your pedigree makes me valid.
Enough.
Test.
Listen to interviews with NFL coaches and offensive coordinators and they all talk about needing to get "chunk plays" in order to sustain drives - that is, run or pass plays that will get a team eight or more yards, or big chunks of yardage. Mike Pettine, Brian Billick, and others use this terminology quite frequently.
wildswan, that "chunk" is the southern equivalent of "chuck"--to throw. (There was a black character in the original M*A*S*H, Spearchucker Jones.)
I spend my summers in sight of Chunky Gal Mountain, NC; Almost time to return to Texas.
BTW, they had chocolate Margarine in the Philippines when I was there in the 70s, maybe still do.
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