Handcrafted
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Today's Tank McNamara:
This certainly seems to be true for lemonade — "handcrafted lemonade" doesn't occur in the Google Ngrams index.
In the case of beer, homemade still beats handcrafted by a ratio of about 15 to 1, but at least handcrafted is on the scoreboard.
Orin Hargraves said,
May 8, 2016 @ 11:38 am
A little more about "crafting" here:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/ll/writers-craft/
Mara K said,
May 8, 2016 @ 11:38 am
How about "artisanal"? Does one have to be an artisan to make things artisanal?
Eurobubba said,
May 8, 2016 @ 11:51 am
Recently saw the phrase "artisanal mining", which I thought was pretty odd.
richardelguru said,
May 8, 2016 @ 12:01 pm
Eurobubba: "artisanal mining"
Presumably how they got those wells in northern France? :-)
Catanea said,
May 8, 2016 @ 1:24 pm
If you watch the BBC's Medieval Monastery Farm series, they do some pretty artisal lead mining in it.
Brett said,
May 8, 2016 @ 1:59 pm
I once went to a farmer's market where somebody was selling "artisanal heirloom tomatoes," which seemed self-contradictory to me.
Ralph J Hickok said,
May 8, 2016 @ 2:18 pm
I've seen a sign advertising "handcrafted smoothies."
Duncan said,
May 8, 2016 @ 5:46 pm
I don't do alcohol (I've seen too many lives wrecked…) so the fine points of beer commentary sail right over my head.
But I really like the punchline, and fully intend to make use of "handcrapted" in other contexts, now that I've discovered it! =:^)
Gregory Kusnick said,
May 8, 2016 @ 6:47 pm
Homemade is about where it's made; handcrafted is about how it's made. One can have handcrafted beer in a brew pub, and machine-made bread at home.
Bjorn said,
May 9, 2016 @ 12:35 am
"Home-brewed" and its variants seem to be even more popular than homemade, for beer:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=homemade+beer%2Chome+made+beer%2Chandcrafted+beer%2Chomebrewed+beer%2Chome-brewed+beer&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chomemade%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chome%20made%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chandcrafted%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chomebrewed%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chome%20-%20brewed%20beer%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Chomemade%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chome%20made%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chandcrafted%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chomebrewed%20beer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chome%20-%20brewed%20beer%3B%2Cc1
Robert Coren said,
May 9, 2016 @ 10:23 am
I tend to be mock-puzzled when a restaurant advertises something as "home-made"; since I assume that the chef doesn't actually live in the restaurant, I wonder why they didn't make whatever it is there instead of bringing it from home.
Coby Lubliner said,
May 9, 2016 @ 11:09 am
Some restaurants use the more appropriate "house-made" (analogous to German hausgemacht) rather than "home-made". A house, after all, is not necessarily a home.
David L said,
May 9, 2016 @ 11:34 am
Once — I swear this is true — I saw a local newspaper ad for a pizza take-out place claiming that their goods were "ho-made."
This was in the days before phones that could take pictures, otherwise I would've.
[(myl) A local restaurant advertises on its digital-lights sign "HOMADE TOMATO SOUP". I'll take a picture next time I walk buy, if they haven't changed the sign.]
Brett said,
May 9, 2016 @ 3:40 pm
@David L: Did they serve pasta puttanesca?
Viseguy said,
May 9, 2016 @ 8:57 pm
"Homade" could be defended as a simplified spelling. "Ho-made" sounds too good to be true — an eggporn?
Robert Coren said,
May 10, 2016 @ 10:01 am
A restaurant I once ate at in a smallish town somewhere along the Dordogne had a menu that included English translations, some of which were (unintentionally) hilarious, including the repeated use of "house-maid" for fait(e) à la maison.
JS said,
May 11, 2016 @ 2:01 pm
"Homade" could even represent a phonological change (reduction of geminate across morpheme boundary). I feel like I'm familiar with this distinction but haven't reflected on it.
Adam F said,
May 12, 2016 @ 1:37 pm
The second batch of beer a friend and I made as students certainly smelled handcrapted. (The rest have been better.)