Food conditioning happens when wild animals learn to eat human food. It’s most often used when talking about bears; learning to eat food left behind by people increases the likelihood that bears will come into conflict with people later.
People who think about this for a living make videos like this:
They’re deadly serious, but they’re also hard not to laugh at: their subject matter is, after all, a bear that loves garbage so much it might get shot.
Making matters worse, I promptly saw the analogy:
air conditioned : air conditioner :: food conditioned : food conditioner
where a food conditioner is a garbage can. It’s possibly the silliest way to refer to a garbage can that I can think of, and it’s hard not to laugh at that too.
And thus, food conditioned is my word(s) of the day.
