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From the PETA blog:

For years, the PETA Files has been telling you how eating vegan is all the rage. But now, the clever folks at Google Labs have given us the tool to prove it. Their new Books Ngram Viewer allows visitors to see and compare, in graph form, trends in word usage over time, based on a database of books (here's a more thorough explanation of how it all works). And the food editor at Good has noticed that mentions of the word "tofu" have far surpassed those of "hot dog."


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  1. marion d s dreyfus on December 19, 2010 6:26 am

    But hot dog is too limiting: Perhaps they used wiener–I have seen that locution both capped and uncapped all over the news of late.

    They may have used frank, or frankfurter, or small sausage. Or some variant of these phrases and terms, whereas a mere solo term, tofu, cannot pretend to equal the total number of citations in the industry aggregate of terms relating to meat or composite compressed longitudinal meat products.

    Just a “linked” thought.

  2. Craig Bowles on December 20, 2010 8:23 am

    make sure you change the date as it goes out to 2008. Then you see tofu is getting hammered the last decade. Interestingly, economic books peaked in the late 1990s and are declining since rather than rising like the 1930s.

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