Bad Taste

Listen up, not-so-smart human! Explain Bear is here to drop some knowledge on your tiny brain, *based* on facts. So, you got this joke, right? 'I should probably stop making jokes about bulimia. They just leave a bad taste in my mouth.' Get this, you big thinker: Bulimia is a serious eating disorder where people, well, they purge food. And a super common side effect of that is, you guessed it, a literal 'bad taste in their mouth' from stomach acid. The joke plays on this. But wait, there's more! 'Leaving a bad taste in your mouth' also means something is unpleasant or inappropriate, which is how you might *feel* about making dark jokes about a serious condition. See what you did there? You used a *pun*! It's dark humor because bulimia is no laughing matter, but you took that literal symptom and twisted it into a figure of speech. Mind blown, right? You actually made a joke with a double meaning, even if you didn't quite get how clever it was when you wrote it. Based!