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Pocky (ポッキー)
Pocky (ポッキー) is Ezaki Glico's chocolate-coated biscuit stick snack, launched in Japan in 1966 as the world's first stick-shaped chocolate confection, named for the pokkin biting sound, sold abroad as MIKADO, and a Guinness-record best-selling chocolate biscuit brand.
Poffertjes
Poffertjes are small puffy Dutch yeast-raised griddle cakes of buckwheat and wheat flour, also historically called bollebuisjes or broedertjes, cooked in a dimpled poffertjespan and served with butter and powdered sugar.
Poh Ling Yeow
Poh Ling Yeow, Malaysian-born Australian cook, painter and TV presenter; MasterChef Australia season 1 runner-up (2009), host of Poh's Kitchen and Poh & Co, and MasterChef judge from season 16 (2024).
Poi (food)
Poi is a traditional Hawaiian staple food of boiled, pounded taro (kalo) mixed with water and eaten fresh or fermented (Lactococcus lactis, lactobacilli); distinct from poi ʻulu (breadfruit) and poi ʻuala (sweet potato) variants.
Poitín
Poitín (poteen), Ireland's traditional clear, unaged pot-still spirit made from cereals, potatoes, whey, or molasses; illegal from 1661 to 1997, now an EU and UK Geographical Indication.
Polar fleece
Polar fleece is a soft brushed polyester knit invented by Malden Mills with Patagonia around 1979-1981, sold in Micro/100/200/300 weights, warm, quick-drying, not windproof, and prone to microfiber shedding.
Polenta
Polenta is cornmeal, typically medium or coarse ground maize, cooked slowly in salted water or stock into a creamy porridge; set and sliced, it is grilled or fried. A northern Italian staple descended from Roman puls, made with flint corn, about 4:1 liquid to cornmeal, naturally gluten-free.
Polish cuisine
Polish cuisine (kuchnia polska) is Poland's national culinary tradition of grain dishes, soups, fermented vegetables, mushrooms, and meats, with icons like pierogi, bigos, żurek, and kotlet schabowy, shaped by Italian, French, German, Jewish, and Eastern influences and strong regional diversity.
Polka dot
A polka dot is one of a number of round spots forming a regular pattern, especially on fabric, a fashion motif named for the polka dance craze.
Pollera
Pollera: Spanish American woman's skirt and traditional costume; Panama's embroidered national two-piece dress, Bolivia and Peru's layered cholita skirt, Ecuador's chola cuencana pleated skirt; Spanish colonial origin, 16th century onward.
Polly Pocket
Polly Pocket: micro doll and compact playset line created by Chris Wiggs (Origin Products), launched by Bluebird Toys in 1989, acquired by Mattel in 1998, relaunched 2018, now a Mattel franchise brand with collector and entertainment extensions.
Polo (confectionery)
Polo is a ring-shaped mint brand, "the mint with the hole", launched by Rowntree's on 15 April 1948 and made since at Nestlé's York factory; variants include Original, Spearmint, Fruits, and Sugar Free mints approved by the Oral Health Foundation.
Polo shirt
Polo shirt, also called tennis shirt or golf shirt: a collared, short-sleeved knit top with a buttoned placket, usually piqué cotton. Invented by René Lacoste (1927 design, L.12.12, launched 1933 with André Gillier); Fred Perry and Ralph Lauren Polo followed.
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR, E 476, INS 476) is a synthetic water-in-oil food emulsifier made from polyglycerol and condensed castor oil fatty acids, used mainly to lower the yield stress of molten chocolate; EFSA set an ADI of 25 mg/kg bw per day in 2017.
Pompadour (hairstyle)
Pompadour hairstyle: hair brushed up and back from the forehead for height, named for Madame de Pompadour (1750s), an 18th-century women's fashion revived as the 1950s rock-and-roll men's cut popularized by Elvis.
Poncho
Poncho: rectangular cloth garment with a central head opening, native to the Americas; evolved from Andean pre-Columbian tunics, popularized by the Mapuche, spread through colonial South America, with the Paraguayan Poncho Para'í on UNESCO's urgent safeguarding list.
Ponytail
Ponytail: tied-back hairstyle gathered and banded so hair hangs like a horse's tail, also called a queue in military contexts. Known from ancient Crete frescoes, Manchu China, the 18th-century European soldier's queue, the 1950s women's revival, the Ponytail Shape Equation, and traction alopecia risk.
Poop
Poop (feces, stool): intestinal waste of undigested food, bacteria, mucus, and gut lining cells, about 75% water; central to fecal-oral disease, sanitation, wastewater surveillance, and composting.
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks is the original popping candy brand, hard candy gasified with carbon dioxide at about 600 psi, invented in 1956 by General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell and sold since the mid-1970s, now owned by Zeta Espacial.
Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts: Kellogg's (now Kellanova) shelf-stable toaster pastry launched September 1964 in Cleveland in four unfrosted flavors, developed by Bill Post's team in about four months and named after the Pop Art movement.
Popcorn Sutton
Popcorn Sutton (Marvin Sutton, 1946–2009) was an Appalachian moonshiner of Maggie Valley, NC and Cocke County, TN, author of Me and My Likker, subject of The Last One, and namesake of a legal whiskey brand.
Poplin
Poplin, also called popeline or tabinet, is a tightly woven plain-weave fabric with a coarser weft than warp, giving fine crosswise ribs. Originally silk-and-wool from papal Avignon, it is now mostly crisp mercerized cotton for shirts and coats.
Poppi (drink)
Poppi (stylized poppi) is an American prebiotic soda brand founded as Mother Beverage by Allison Ellsworth in 2015, rebranded after a 2018 Shark Tank investment by Rohan Oza, and acquired by PepsiCo in 2025 for $1.95 billion; it has no more than 5g sugar per can.
Poppy Delevingne
Poppy Delevingne (born 1986) is a British model, socialite, and actress, elder sister of Cara Delevingne. Known for Louis Vuitton SS2012, Chanel ambassadorship, Mango AW2010, and roles in King Arthur and Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
Poppy O'Toole
Poppy O'Toole, known as Poppy Cooks and the Potato Queen, is an English Michelin-trained chef (born 1994) whose viral TikTok potato recipes, including crispy parmesan roasties and 15-hour potatoes, led to six Bloomsbury cookbooks and TV judging on BBC Three's Young MasterChef.
Poppy tea
Poppy tea, or poppy seed tea, is a homemade opioid drink made by rinsing unwashed Papaver somniferum seeds in cold water or lemon juice. FDA reports 11 deaths, variable morphine content, and a planned 2026 action level.
Popular culture
Popular culture, also known as pop culture, is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects whose meanings are most widely shared in a society, including media, entertainment, and fashion.
Porchetta
Porchetta is an Italian whole deboned pig or suckling pig seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary, or wild fennel, tied and roasted whole; a central Italian street food, with Porchetta di Ariccia holding EU PGI status since 2011.
Pork
Pork is meat from the domesticated pig, independently domesticated from wild boar in Eastern and Western Eurasia. It has been the world's most widely eaten meat since the Roman Empire, counts as red meat nutritionally, and is forbidden in Jewish and Islamic law.
Pork belly
Pork belly (liempo, 삼겹살 cut) is the fatty hog side left after loin and spareribs removal, 40–50% fat, cured into bacon or pancetta and grilled or braised across Korean, Filipino, Chinese, and other cuisines.