Citations:gutbomb

English citations of gutbomb

Noun: "(slang) a food item that is hard on the stomach due to its greasiness, large size, richness, etc."

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• 1983 — Texas Monthly, June 1983, page 88:

  Kitchen offers gutbomb to gourmet until 9 (at least) so you can eat in and drink out, or vice versa.

• 1992 — "Judging Is No Piece Of Cake When Many Pieces Are At Hand", News Tribune, 27 September 1992:

  I will say only that this first cake was a cocoa gutbomb, a chore to chew.

• 1997 — "After Midnight", St. Paul Pioneer Press, 25 July 1997:

  Home of the world's greatest gutbomb, affectionately nicknamed "The Slider."

• 1999 — Robert Sietsema, "Hamburger Heaven", Village Voice, 27 April 1999:

  Of 18 varieties, the Harlem ($6.40) is the pride of the establishment, melting twin Americans over the beef, flopping on a runny egg, depositing the result on a splayed bun, and finally dumping chili con carne over the whole thing—a delicious gutbomb that defies digestion.

• 2001 — John T. Edge, Georgia, Compass American Guides (2001), →ISBN, page 65:

  Opened in 1934, this cleaner-than-clean diner serves hand-patted hamburgers on roasted buns and gutbomb chili to a loyal cadre of locals.

• 2002 — Mark Haskell Smith, Moist, Grove Press (2002), →ISBN, page 91:

  Don knew that tonight he'd have to have a green salad and maybe a little sashimi to counteract the effects of this gutbomb, but that was a small price to pay for the absolutely glorious way he felt right here, right now.

• 2002 — Munch, "Munch goes to Aussom Aussie Boomerang BBQ", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 25 October 2002:

  Munch is accustomed to performing the extraordinarily sloppy consumption of gutbomb good ribs, dripping with spices and sauces and juices, in the dark.

• 2006 — Lily Burana, Try, St. Martin's Griffin (2007), →ISBN, page 176:

  At midnight, J. W. and I stopped outside Thermopolis and bought two jumbo coffees and microwave gutbomb burritos at a fuel plaza with a food mart big as an Albertson's.

• 2006 — Ron Judd, "Must-see events for unwanted guests", The Seattle Times, 25 May 2006:

  Special dining add-on: Have the kin make their way to friendly nearby Hoquiam for that unique, bowling-ball-in-your-abdomen feeling you can only get by downing a local specialty: that new mashed-potatoes-and-gravy-and-corn-and-chicken-topped-with-cheese gutbomb at the local KFC.

• 2007 — Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller, Simon & Schuster (2007), →ISBN, page 225:

  […] If we gotta get a gutbomb, then we better move. You're gonna need your energy to help me beat the shit outta this Greenwood."

• 2007 — Meredith Brody, "The Maddening Crowd", SF Weekly, 23 May 2007:

  Here it's apparently an in-joke hommage to the Canadian origins of co-owner Doug Washington, who refers to it as a "horrible dish — a gutbomb" but ruefully admits that the version cooked up by co-owners and chefs Mitchell and Steven Rosenthal is "better than what I had in Canada."

• 2008 — Ami Silber, Early Bright, Toby Press (2008), →ISBN, page 297:

  On account of us finally getting some decent home-cooked food instead of my mom's gutbombs — Aunt Erma's green beans, Cousin Nancy's creamed onions, Ira made his own stuffing — me and my pop and sisters could have wept with joy to eat such manna.

• 2010 — Guy M. Townsend, Olio: Leaves from an Editor's Notebook, AuthorHouse (2010), →ISBN, page 37:

  Now, a Big Mac in London tastes about the same as a Big Mac in Kentucky, but there are some, among whom I number myself, who are reluctant to bestow upon those cardboard gutbombs the noble name of Hamburger.

• 2010 — Chantal Martineau, "The Underdog: A Montreal Deli Takes on NYC", The Atlantic, 26 March 2010:

  Poutine's allure is obvious—the gutbomb has been spotted on menus from London to Seoul.

• 2012 — Zagat: Atlanta Restaurants 2012/13, Zagat Survey, LLC (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  "Worth a pilgrimage once in your life", this Downtown "cult classic" is famed for its "amazing" "gutbomb burger" that's sized bigger "than one person should possibly ingest" and prepared by "cantankerous", eponymous owner; […]