Genre Slang, Food, Joke
Language English
Country of Origin United States
Informant Jesse Feldman-Stein
Date Collected February 26, 2018
Collected by Robin Jayaswal
Informant Data
Jesse Feldman-Stein is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, a member of the class of 2018. Jesse is very active in the DOC, and is the President of the Ledyard Canoe Club at Dartmouth. He is thus very ingrained in the hiking community, and the leaders of the community.
Contextual Data
Dartmouth students have an abundance of slang within their folkgroup, and the smaller subgroups of students within the campus like to create additional slang among its members. The hiking group is no exception.
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One of the favorite foods of students going hiking at Dartmouth, or going on First-Year trips, is honey sesame sticks. These are so popular, in fact, that they have been given their own nickname in the group’s slang: crack. The snack owes its nickname to the fact that once you start eating it, it is very hard to stop. Some may regard this joke from which the nickname in poor taste, but the term has largely detached itself from the joke and become synonymous with honey sesame sticks, and most would thus agree that its use today is in fact in quite ‘good taste’.
Honey Sesame Sticks, or ‘Crack’