Cognizant Carbs means: Feeling guilty for all of the carbs that you have been eating, your subconscious begins to assign human traits to bread products to help you eat less. You begin to think bread is a living thing with moral concerns about its consumption. This is called Pareidoliaseeing faces at unusual places. It is common to notice your cornbread or muffin looking at you in disapproval when the carbs in our lives become conscious. You stare back at them, and they stare back at you. They stare back with judgment, and you look at them longingly. Your family is soon accustomed to you explaining that the waffles are not on their table. They have a complicated backstory, and children at home who can’t live without them. (in Community Dictionary, added by Sincere Doyle)
