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Gnaga
Gnaga: Venetian Carnival costume in which men dressed as women wearing a cat-shaped mask, named from Venetian "gnau" (meowing); also the wooden old-woman mask of the Fornesighe carnival in Val di Zoldo.
Gnocchi
Gnocchi are Italian dumplings, usually potato and flour, boiled and served as a first course; classified in pasta's dumpling family, with regional variants like gnudi and gnocchi alla romana.
Go-to-hell pants
Go-to-hell pants (GTH pants) are boldly colored, often embroidered preppy trousers of Ivy style, named by Tom Wolfe in 1976 and originating among affluent Northeasterners in the mid-1950s.
Goat cheese
Goat cheese, also called chèvre, is cheese made from goat milk, with about 400 varieties worldwide. Lower αs1-casein and small fat globules give it a soft, spreadable, tangy character and a goaty flavor from 4-methyloctanoic and 4-ethyloctanoic acids.
Gobstopper
Gobstopper, also called jawbreaker in the US, is a hard spherical candy of many layered sugar coats meant to be sucked slowly. The Everlasting Gobstopper, from Roald Dahl's 1964 book, became a real Wonka candy in 1976, now made by Ferrara.
Gochujang (고추장)
Gochujang (고추장), Korean fermented chili paste of soybean, glutinous rice, chili powder, and malt; sweet-hot taste, about 2,402 mg sodium per 100 g, distinct from doenjang and ssamjang.
God's eye
God's eye, or Ojo de Dios (tsikuri in Wixarika), is a votive yarn weaving on crossed sticks made by the Huichol people of western Mexico, each diamond marking a year of protection; also a popular children's craft.
Godfather's Pizza
Godfather's Pizza, American pizza franchise founded 1973 in Omaha, Nebraska by Willy Theisen and Greg Johnson; 632 locations by 1982, second-largest U.S. pizza chain then; distinct from the 1972 Canadian chain.
Godfrey Phillips India
Godfrey Phillips India Limited (GPI, NSE: GODFRYPHLP) is the second-largest Indian tobacco and cigarette company, a Modi Enterprises flagship founded in 1936, maker of Four Square and Red & White and distributor of Marlboro with Philip Morris.
Godiva Chocolatier
Godiva Chocolatier: Belgian premium chocolate brand (Belgium 1926), founded by Pierre Draps in Brussels, named after Lady Godiva; royal warrant 1968; owned by Turkey's Yıldız Holding via pladis, not Campbell Soup or Hershey.
Goetta
Goetta (get-uh), from German Grützwurst, is a Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky breakfast sausage of ground pork, beef, steel-cut oats, onion, and spices, sliced and fried; unlike scrapple it uses oats, not cornmeal.
Going Dutch
Going Dutch, or to go Dutch, is an idiom for each person paying their own share of a meal or outing; from the 19th-century Americanism Dutch treat, likely via the Pennsylvania Dutch, not a Dutch custom.
Gok Wan
Gok Wan (Kowkhyn Wan, born 1974, Leicester) is a British fashion stylist, TV presenter, author, and DJ, famous for Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked and Gok's Fashion Fix, later a TV cook with Gok Cooks Chinese, MBE 2020.
Gold coin
Gold coin: struck gold money first issued in Lydia in electrum, with pure gold coinage under Croesus (561-546 BC); later solidi, florins, and modern bullion coins valued by weight and fineness.
Golden Corral
Golden Corral: American buffet-and-grill restaurant chain founded 1971, first opened 1973 in Fayetteville, NC; Raleigh, NC headquartered franchisor, over 150 buffet items, Camp Corral military charity, CEO Lance Trenary since 2015.
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II: 2002 celebration of the Queen's 50 years on the throne, with the 1-4 June central weekend of palace concerts, a St Paul's thanksgiving service in the Gold State Coach, 1,952 beacons and about 1.2 million at the Mall, after her 1977 Silver Jubilee.
Golden Needle Sewing School
The Golden Needle Sewing School was a secret literary circle of women writers in Herat, Afghanistan, who studied banned literature disguised as sewing classes under Taliban rule.
Golden Week (黄金周) (China)
Golden Week (黄金周) is China's week-long holiday system, created in 1999 by joining Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day holidays with swapped weekends. May Day Golden Week was abolished in 2008; the 2024 revision added two statutory days.
Goldfish (cracker)
Goldfish crackers: fish-shaped baked cheese snack created as Goldfischli by Swiss baker Oscar J. Kambly in 1958, introduced to the US by Pepperidge Farm in 1962, now a Campbell brand icon.
Goldwork (embroidery)
Goldwork (embroidery): metal-thread embroidery, also called gold embroidery or opus anglicanum in medieval England, in which gold, silver, or copper threads are couched onto fabric rather than stitched through it; originating in Han-dynasty China and still used in religious, military, and ceremonial regalia.
Golf Wang
Golf Wang, also styled GOLF WANG, is the American streetwear brand founded in 2011 by Tyler, the Creator, named as a flip on Odd Future's Wolf Gang, known for bold colors and flame motifs, with sister label Golf le Fleur and an FC Barcelona El Clasico kit.
Golliwog
Golliwog (Golliwogg): blackface rag doll created by Florence Kate Upton in the 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a 'Golliwogg'; a European toy favorite for decades, now widely regarded as a racist minstrel caricature.
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries, formally Goodwill Industries International, is a nonprofit network founded in Boston in 1902 that sells donated goods to fund job training and employment placement services.
Gooey butter cake
Gooey butter cake, also called ooey gooey butter cake, is a St. Louis, Missouri specialty: a flat, dense cake with a yeasted or cake-mix base and a buttery, underbaked, pudding-like topping, born by legend from a 1930s German baker's mistake.
Google Santa Tracker
Google Santa Tracker, santatracker.google.com, is Google's annual Christmas Eve Santa-tracking site and December Santa's Village of games and education. Launched 2004 via Keyhole, partnered with NORAD 2007-2011, standalone since 2012, open-sourced on GitHub.
Gordon Behind Bars
Gordon Behind Bars, also known as Ramsay Behind Bars, is a 2012 British docu-reality series. It follows Gordon Ramsay teaching inmates at HMP Brixton to run a bakery.
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay (born 1966, Johnstone, Scotland) is a British chef and TV personality whose Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea holds three Michelin stars; he runs a 103-restaurant global group and hosts Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares.
Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip
Gordon, Gino, and Fred: Road Trip is an ITV travel-food series with Gordon Ramsay, Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix touring countries by camper van; four series aired 2018–2023 before D'Acampo's departure ended it.
Gordon's Gin
Gordon's Gin, London dry gin brand founded by Alexander Gordon in 1769 in Southwark, now Diageo-owned. Distinctive green UK bottle, yellow export label, 37.5% ABV UK bottling, triple distilled, world's best-selling international gin.
Gore-Tex
Gore-Tex (GORE-TEX) is W. L. Gore's trademarked waterproof, breathable fabric based on expanded PTFE, discovered by Bob Gore in 1969; nine billion pores per square inch, ePE PFAS-free membranes since 2022.