junk food?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Michael Denner wrote:

> Anyone out there want to take a shot at a one-word translation of
> junk food for an anketa? I came up with napolniteli (наполнители)
> but I'm unsure of its usage.

If it must be one word, отбросы (otbrosy) looks like a good candidate.
If you can stomach two, ;-) try мусорная еда (musornaya yeda).
And then there's always transliteration...

Here are a few results from a basic web search (using Russian
google, I searched the phrase "junk food" and specified only Russian
sites, then searched the candidates themselves):

фаст-фуд (fast-fud) -- 27,900 hits
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/life/newsid_2152000/2152584.stm>

╚неполноценная╩ и ╚неполезная╩ пища ("nepolnotsennaya" i "nepoleznaya" pishcha)
<http://sopka.valuehost.ru/ac/?p=4>

съеденные отбросы (s"yedennye otbrosy) :-)
<http://anti.teneta.ru/2002/transl_prose/gb1023574794549848.html>

вредная пища (vrednaya pishcha) -- 50 hits?
<http://www.russiansinaustralia.org.au/Food_In_Australia.htm>

мусорная еда (musornaya yeda) -- 25 hits
<http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2000/0509/koi/science.htm>
<http://www.opankey.com/takhtamyshev/health2.html>
<http://www.ej.ru/002/btw/health/02/>

мусорная еда, отбросы (musornaya yeda, otbrosy)
<http://www.just-so-site.com/stories/nation_cats.htm>

помойная пища (pomoynaya pishcha)
<http://www.russianfocus.ru/n_48/focus/1.shtml>

помойная пища, джанк-фуд (pomoynaya pishcha, dzhank-fud)
http://www.chrab.chel.su/archive/07-03-98/3/SHORTY.DOC.html

помоечная еда (pomoyechnaya yeda)
<http://www.russian-bazaar.com/cgi-bin/rb.cgi/f=lzer&auth=1&n=24&y=2002&id=lzer.2002.6.7.16.28.6.24.temanomera.63.49&back=1>

помоечная еда, отбросы (pomoyechnaya yeda, otbrosy)
<http://www.bashnet.ru/~rampa/10-2001/6.html>

бросовая, помоечная еда (brosovaya/pomoyechnaya yeda)
<http://www.iuf.ru/?cat=6&nid=200>
duplicated at <http://www.communist.ru/lenta/?890>

американская еда (amerikanskaya yeda) :-) -- 168 hits??
<http://www.milleniumtour.ru/sve/tegefj.htm>

джанк-фуд (dzhank-fud) -- 98 hits
<http://www.svoboda.org/programs/OTB/2002/OBT.032702.asp>
<http://www.ug.ru/01.10/t39.htm>
<http://www.privet.com/notes/win/jan98.html>

An interesting discussion of the uses of джанк (dzhank):
<http://www.russ.ru/ist_sovr/20010123_eremen.html>

HTH

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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