KUM-er-shpek[ˈkʊmɐˌʃpɛk]
Pronunciation: Jeuwre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonsthe weight you gain from comfort eating — literally 'grief bacon'
Closest in English: comfort-eating, stress-eating, emotional-eating. None of them covers it.
Kummer is grief, Speck is bacon, and the internet fell for the literal translation the moment it surfaced: grief bacon, the kilos a rough patch leaves behind. German dictionaries list it with a straight face. English keeps the cause and hides the evidence: comfort eating.
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