porkalicious

porkalicious

English

Etymology

pork +‎ -licious

Adjective

porkalicious (comparative more porkalicious, superlative most porkalicious)

1. (of food, informal) Delicious or tantalising because of the pork it is made from or contains.
   • 2007, Martin Rubin, "1933: Movies and the New Deal in Entertainment", American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations (ed. Ina Rae Harm), Rutgers University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 107:

     Cute though they may be, pigs must serve a function: mama pigs produce little pigs, and papa pigs produce, from their own chubby carcasses, sausages and hams and all the other porkalicious products that will feed a hungry nation.

   • 2009, Yuan-Kwan Chan, "Bacon, blues and expanding bellies at the Food Network NYC Festival", Meniscus, 12 October 2009:

     One mere whiff of the air after stepping onto the third floor of The Standard New York made the theme of the evening’s festivities instantly obvious: bacon – and lots of it, the porkalicious smell seemingly pouring out of the hotel’s tiny High Line Room.

   • 2011, San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2012 (eds. Meesha Halm & Cynthia Kilian), Zagat (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     […] but the “fresh”, “flavorful” fare – from “porkalicious” potstickers to other “cheap” “Chinese” chow – is something “special” say supporters, adding that lines that “wrap around the block” “tell the story.”

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:porkalicious.