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the sound your brain trusts when deciding if food is worth eating
means To crush something with a noisy, brittle sound — or, by extension, a critical moment of pressure when everything comes to a head.
from An imitative word, born from the sound itself — English loves to manufacture verbs straight out of noise, and 'crunch' is a cousin of the older 'craunch' and 'scrunch.' No ancient root, just the satisfying crackle of something breaking under teeth or boot, spelled out in letters. The figurative 'crunch' — as in a tight squeeze or decisive moment — is a 20th-century stretch of the same crushing idea.
- frequency
- crisp foods crunch around 80 decibels near your ears
- bone conduction
- you hear your own chewing through your skull
- freshness signal
- louder crunch tricks tasters into perceiving more freshness
- word origin
- echoic word imitating the actual sound itself
- insect snacks
- crispness drives much of bug-eating appeal worldwide
great depression — us unemployment reached 25% in 1933, causing severe economic contraction
time crunch apollo 13 — astronauts had 90 minutes of oxygen remaining before moon landing abort in 1970