What You Post On Yelp Says More About You Than About The Food
Crackcakes OMG these cupcakes are soooooo addictive...... Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio / Youtube "Like meth, but in a good way." "Seriously, the Bacon Maple is like heroin." "These cupcakes are like crack." When people review cheap restaurants in particular on Yelp, they often use drug metaphors, and speak in the language of addiction. This is but one of the interesting findings of a linguistic study of 900,000 restaurant reviews on Yelp.com. The researchers found that these reviews offered a unique look into the human psyche... and how much people love references to drugs and sex (representatives for the sadly snubbed rock 'n roll couldn't be reached for comment). Here are some of the other patterns found, as described by Stanford University: Positive reviews of expensive restaurants tended to use metaphors of sex and sensual pleasure, such...