A quick sound bite or clip that provides just enough information nourishment to the recipient's ego so as to reinforce their preexisting prejudices and pet theories. Gossip food should consist of fabricated news, misinterpreted facts, lies, propaganda and other excremental matter which would still approximate the consistency of some unidentifiable junk food which yet satisfies an essential craving to sustain a flatulent ego. Gossip food should be short and disguise the point, and be missing some essential ingredients such as: truth, etc. It can always be premade in small batches of innuendo, hearsay, vaporous matter, disintegrating sources, and falsies fallacies.
She craved gossip food so much that she could not wait until it came out of the press secretary's mouth, and trained a legion of puppets to concoct some out of Kardashianoatmeal.
whereas just "food desert" is currently considered (more from public health perspective) as places where the local populations do not have (convenient) access to affordable, healthy food, this more wholistic concept is a less human-centric understanding that implies both, a low, non-proportionate amount of food grown, and dependency on (usually both environmentally unsustainable and imbalanced fossil fuel energies and farm land stewardship) less-/unnatural imports of food from "non-renewable" or less lively (e.g. degraded/depleted top soils and watersheds) source farms
After being affected by the spirit of "deep ecology", I had a fresher awareness of the ironic, or at least unnatural, situation of how the grocery stores, markets, restaurants, etc. made it appear like there's an abundance of food, but our less- or unhealthy human-built environment that had me dependent on unsustainable, imbalanced energies (like fossil fuels and their corresponding implements) actually was an ecological food desert.