where did we get the term “cooker” from? I know what it means, curious of the origin.
The term ‘cooked’ has been around for ages used to describe someone who is crazy in a manner that is consistent with persons suffering from long term alcohol/drug/substance abuse i.e “their brain is cooked”
I think the more recent rise of meth as the country’s most pre-eminent substance abuse social problem has helped spawn the term ‘cooker’ as this has heavy connotations with how meth is consumed and manufactured.
Now with the even more recent pandemic outing a lot of controversial opinions, the term cooker is now concreted into the vernacular as an insult for persons who refuse to grasp basic concepts regarding public health and espouse outlandish paranoid theories in response. Things that most would suppose a person whose brain has been fried by meth would do. Though in my opinion it’s a bit harsh on the meth users.
I think it’s originated from people’s brains overheating on ecstacy… Could be wrong there.
There are also LSD cookers, predating ecstasy by decades. Edit: doesn’t discount your theory though.
I think the term is evolving and it’s more moved from the drugs to more that there is a certain pattern of mental thought associated with it. A fried or cooked brain causing strange patterns and behaviours.
I used to work with a very intelligent lady, drug and alcohol free, who had a bad time through menopause and I would now described as “cooked”. All the conspiracy theories regurgitated within 3 years from zero prior.
Since there are studies of Facebook causing changes in the brain, can you be “cooked” from Facebook usage?
It definitely applies to mental illness now, and probably other drugs, sure. I’ll bet money that people on opium made reference to cooking in the 1700s or something, not sure if they were getting organ failure due from overheating.
Obligatory; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlcsjM57vM
