Slang of the Day: “smack” vs. “slap”

Let me be clear. Food doesn’t slap. It never has and it never will. When something tastes good, Baydestrians would say it smacks. This is what we say when food is really freakin’ good. Imagine you’re eating seafood boil with extra garlic butter and cajun seasoning, the shrimp soaks up all the flavors and it smacks you in the face with a mouth-watering gift for your tastebuds. It’s so scrumptious you’d say, “It’s shhhhmaaaaackin!” or it’s “hella bomb.” So instead of “slap” you’d just say “This smacks!”

Now as far as “slap” goes, that is solely dedicated to music. A book doesn’t slap. Cars are clean, but they don’t slap. As much as you love those birria tacos, they don’t slap. Whatever you think is a good song is a slap or a bop. So you’d say “Vintage by Kiyomi slaps. She’s doing the damn thing. It’s a bop for sure.” You can also say “Pass me the aux. I got all the slaps.”

Language is important when you’re trying to get your message across. Use the wrong one and my fellow Bay Area natives will roast the gentrification out of you. 

So remember this: Food smacks. Music slaps.