YELP HOLE: NOUN — just submitted to Urban Dictionary for editorial review
YELP HOLE: (NOW ON URBAN DICTIONARY!)
DEFINITION:
(Noun)
- A void-like freakout similar to a K-Hole but instead of drug-induced, the Yelp Hole takes hold when you are looking for a place to go to eat / drink.
- The anxiety of social capital associated with selecting the perfect establishment for the people and event drives one into a Yelp Hole.
- This phenomenon is primarily urban as the choices are so plentiful that they are dizzying and require Yelp to weed through them.
- Generally the Yelp Hole spell is broken by someone being kept waiting — who shakes you out of the Yelp Hole and into random selection.
- Also related to it’s paperback uncle — the Zagat Freeze. and Siblings — SeamlessWeb Fugue, Menupages Daze, and Chowhound Blackout.
Example:
1) The pressure to find a brunch spot to make all of her friends happy drove Sally into a Yelp Hole. Hours later, her friends were texting her furiously, hungry and confused, and yet Sally remained in bed making lists of potential brunch spots, unsure of which to pick.
2) Gene was dreading his 29th birthday — not because he is nearing 30 but because the stress to select a celebration spot was driving him into a an extended several-week-long Yelp Hole. Eventually he let his frat brothers decide. And so, of course, they went to Brother Jimmies. Where everyone suffered North Carolina Pulled Pork Poisoning. All because Gene couldn’t fight the Yelp Hole. Shameful.
Posted August 29, 2010 at 1:45pm in yelp seamlessweb chowhound food dining zagat yuppy yuppies stress anxiety food web internet hinternetz social media seth party planning nyc
