I most definitely get hangry! I'll go from fine to hangry within a matter of minutes...ha!

This describes my husband perfectly. My favorite was when we were driving back home and he was really, really HANGRY. I said, "Well, we could get..." NO. "OK, we could get..." NO. THERE'S NOTHING TO EAT. I said, "What, in the whole town? There's NOTHING TO EAT IN THE WHOLE TOWN?"

And he answered, "THAT'S RIGHT."

We pulled off and went to the local diner/sandwich shop, where we got some soup down his gullet. After he recovered, I laughed and laughed.

Any life form that has to eat is familiar with getting hangry. When my little one was a toddler, it was amazing to watch her go from happy, bouncing pumpkin at 5:59 p.m. to tearful, hangry, sad lump at 6:01 if dinner failed to hit the table at 6:00. I think I feel the same but can hide it better. Still--always have almonds or pistachios around!

Haha, Chryssf, that sounds familiar. I am the same way. I was out with my husband and friends getting drinks, and it ran later than originally planned for. We missed out on the original plan to go to a certain restaurant because it was too late. We could have easily picked up something else, since we live in NY and there were plenty of other options for food. But I was so cranky and HANGRY that I instead decided we should just go home and go straight to bed because nothing else would be good enough. I did down a bowl of cereal when I got home, and quickly realized what a brat I had been. I'm normally not too moody of a person, but when I'm starved it's another story...

My teenage daughter gets hangry. My husband and I will wonder why she's in a grouchy mood and then one of us will say, "She hasn't been fed recently!" I'm so glad to know there's a name for this.

Very guilty of this!

I don't (much) but my niece does. Even as a toddler. She's usually the most easygoing of kids, but when she doesn't eat promptly, she gets HANGRY. And that sweet girl that we all know and adore, becomes one red-faced, tantrum-throwing, back-talking little monster. Like Jekyll and Hyde. It's funny and scary to watch the HANGRY episodes, each one always caused by lack of food.

I do a lot of Rungry.
its how hungry you get after a run.

100% guilty. It's a slow spiral, but it generally ends with my husband suggesting I eat something and me trying to take his head off. I try to stave it off as much as possible at work by keeping snacks in my desk drawer, but it's usually on the weekends when we're running around doing errands or cleaning or something mundane and I've forgotten to nibble and start lashing out. I should keep a granola bar around for emergencies.

It took me ages to realize just how hangry I get when I haven't eaten. These days I get even hangrier when I've said a couple of times that I'm hungry and could we please eat, and I feel completely justified because I SAID IT WHY AREN'T THEY LISTENING WHEN I SAY I'M HUNGRY. Basically I turn into some kind of Halk.

Oh, my husband was SO delighted when I discovered this word and introduced it to him a couple months ago, because it describes me to a T. He loves having a word to use for it, and hearing him use it--in his Irish accent--does make me laugh, which helps a bit with the hangry. : ) (And in fairness to me, hunger makes me more cranky than angry, but "hranky" doesn't really work...and I think it's definitely a blood sugar level thing, which is why some people experience "hangry" and others--like my husband, even if he's really hungry--don't...)

Amazing. Just the other day I was meeting my boyfriend at his office so that we could drive home together. I was running early, and I figured that I would wait at his desk until his meeting was over. The meeting ran late of course (through which I'm sure was no fault of just my boyfriend), but as I sat there and got hungrier and hungrier I got more and more ENRAGED that he would allow his meeting to drag on for so long while I sat there hungry.

Fortunately they had some left over pizza from the meeting which he fed me!

Lol! Love that there's a word for this. My husband definitely gets hangry, as does his father. They're both so even-keeled that I've always found it disorienting when they devolve into grumpy, snappy messes. Not being one to get hangry it took me a long time to understand my hubby's mood swings. Now I know better and just make sure to get some food into him ASAP. I'll have to let my MIL know there's a word for their "syndrome".

Definitely guilty of this.
The problem with me is that I don't actually know I'm hungry, until a certain point.And shortly after that comes the hangry state.

On memorable «hangry» fit : I went to an event with friends and spent all day walking. There was little food to be had, or at least affordable food, during the event. We got out of the building at 10:30 PM. No conventional restaurant would let us in, the kitchens were closed. I was irritated. My friend was so tired that he kept babbling and joking. My nerves were so raw that I was about to punch him when my boyfriend came by with McDonald's.

Never in my life have I enjoyed a Big Mac sandwich so much. Also, I scared the heck out of my friend.

And my boyfriend now knows he has about 1 hour to feed me something from the time I say « I'm hungry» otherwise I turn into a raging monster.

Consider me guilty and I've had many experiences similar to that of Arielle above. Hangry is also another reason I don't "do" diets. Any time I force myself to restrict a certain food or food groups, it just turns me into grouchy girl and not fun to be around.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this issue. Make me wait until after 8pm for dinner and I am not a pleasant person...

@chryssf - Oh man, that's me completely. I think it's interesting that more than one person has echoed this idea that there's a type of hangry where you know you're hungry, but you make excuses not to eat. I'll have a kitchen full of food and say "there's nothing I can make with this." I even live in an urban area, so there's always something to eat. I'm just blinded by the hanger.

This is totally me. And my husband just does not get it. He realizes AFTER the fact, when I'm bitchy and pissed, that when I said "I need to eat here pretty quick" (still in my polite mode), what I really mean is "NOW GODDAMNIT!"

Also, a friend of mine refers to this as "she-hulking"

My friend introduced me to this word, and it is so true. The amount of times I have gotten in fights with my husband on road trips because I said I could eat at some point soon and then three hours later he still HAS NOT STOPPED FOR FOOD AND OH MY GOD OBVIOUSLY I DON'T WANT PIZZA HUT AND FINE I WON'T EVEN EAT AT ALL THEN. Good times. :)

Oh yeah. I get like that all the time! My fiance says it's my only real flaw - when I'm hungry, I want to eat NOW! Lol. I get very grumpy when I do not have food.

And yes, after I announce that I am hungry a couple of times and we still cannot manage to schedule an eating time, I get super HANGRY! Except, not so much angry, just very.... insistent. Lol.

Glad to know there is actually a name for it!

I totally do this. And what's worse, the "hangrier" I get, the more indecisive I get, so doing something to fix my state becomes harder and harder...

My husband is exactly the same way. If for some reason we haven't eaten by 8 PM, we are a disaster together.

These posts did my heart good. I didn't understand for a few years how my husband just forgets to eat, doesn't realize he's hungry, and gets nasty, then weak and sick. Once I figured it out I knew to always check, make him eat something, don't let him go too long w/o breakfast, etc. He has no clue how crappy he gets though, and sometimes he thinks I'm obsessing about his nutrition. Ha! More like I'm thinking about preserving the peace and not being snapped at. (How on earth can anyone not eat? Beats me!)

love it! i get very grumpy! and then feed me, and instantly i'm mellow again :-)

i think i get more whiny (whungry?) than hangry when my blood sugar is low. but my mom and sisters are (IN)FAMOUS for their hangry episodes. there was many a meltdown over the years when we took too long to collectively decide on where to go out for dinner, tears would be shed, somebody would refuse to get out of the car ... then as soon as the chips/bread/appetizer came, everyone was friends again. :) that's the one good thing about hanger---so quickly remedied!

It helps to have a word for this, I think. I don't really get hangry (though my father used to--OH GOD DID HE), but my blood sugar does crash and it's sometimes hard to get people to understand that you're not just "a little hungry." Plus you aren't thinking very clearly when you crash and can't communicate well. I finally learned how to get the urgency of it across to my boyfriend when I started using his language for it; he's a cyclist, so if I tell him, "I need to eat now, I'm bonking," he understands that and boy, does he move. :)

whenever i argue with my boyfriend, the first thing he asks me is "when did you eat last?"

OMG - yes! I am getting better as I get older (I swear, despite my husband's claims to the contrary), but growing up my mom, brother and I were all this way (undiagnosed hypoglycemia?) During a car trip, if you said "I'm getting hungry." it was on par with "I need to go the bathroom." You did NOT continue to drive for 50 miles, you pulled over at the NEXT restaurant. The hunger progresses very quickly to nausea, headache, and pain and if you don't eat quickly enough and then, paradoxically, you feel too horrible to eat at all! I will now use the word hangry - it's pretty much perfect.

Hangry! Great word. This is why granola bars were invented. I've learned to always have a few stashed in my purse, my desk, the car. I wish everyone would REALIZE when he/she is being HANGRY instead of stomping around like an angry toddler.

@Parnassus, I actually keep Luna bars and granola bars in my purse for my husband.

We've dubbed his hangry alter-ego "Low Blood Sugar Man." I hate that guy.

OMG, I didn't know this was a real "word". I thought my brother-in-law made it up. He's the drummer for my husband's band, and while they're on tour he warns them when he's getting "hangry" so they better find food soon. So weird.

I get like this. The stages are 1. cranky, 2. irritable, and 3. ready to kill someone. The indecisiveness makes it worse, because I don't want to wait for the food either. I don't even want to drive over to McDonalds and grab whatever's sitting out under the lights, or wait for water to boil to make some ramen.

I'm usually pretty hungry by the time I get home from work. Thank goodness for always having some sort of cheese in the fridge that I can nibble on while I'm waiting for dinner to get ready. It calms the monster a bit.

I didn't even know this word existed! I have a "hangry alter ego" (like Chryssf's husband). Her name is "Pissy Missy". Mr. T has an alter ego as well but we haven't named him yet. . .

ROTFL -these stories are great!! I almost lost a friend when I got hangry because she HAD to find a place that had garlic bread!!!

Unfortunately this is a phenomenon I am all too familiar with... My worst "hangry" episodes all involve me passed out on the floor due to low blood sugar, mostly when I was a teenager because I hadn't yet learned to recognize the signs. Now I carry food with me pretty much everywhere to avoid that drama, but I still have to warn my boyfriend when I'm getting hangry so he knows how urgent it is that I eat - otherwise I turn into a raging *itch!

I AM HANGRY RIGHT NOW! Off to eat an omelette so humanity is saved.

I didn't realize I got hangry until a couple of friends politely pointed it out to me. Now I recognize when I'm hangry and try to do something about it quickly. Better yet, I try not to get hangry :-<

Haha, my toddler gets hangry, and that's totally the right word for it. It's funny, because he's all sunshine and light 99% of the time, but if he's hungry, you can expect angry screaming until he gets some food in his mouth. I always thought it was funny, because my daughter was never that way--her trigger is being tired, at which point she becomes short fused (which I totally get, since I'm a bit that way myself). I thought the "hanger" was a childhood phase--you mean this may last into adulthood?

Yes, I have gotten hangry before and probably will do again. Worst are when travelling by air when airport food is cardboard and I am too stressed to eat. Then comes the hangry monster!

My husband's family has had a lot of experience with this, they would even keep a plastic bag of crisp bread sticks in the glove compartment of their car just for this kind of thing. I didn't know I also got hangry until the trip with my husband and inlaws to New Orleans for the day and no one could decide any decent place to eat(in NOLA!) and my mother in law pulled out the breadsticks. Well, that just made most of us even hangrier which was pretty funny once we did get some food. Now "you might just need a breadstick" has become our code for noticing that someone's hangry.

Ah wow, I thought I was the only person who used this term. Hehe, I certainly get hangry at times!!!

I always imagine saying it like Bruce Bana (Hulk) "you wouldn't like me when i'm hangry..."

LOL @Herzsprung! I, too, turn in to some kind of crazy, starving Halk!!
It's just awful, but I know about it and try to avoid it. My boyfriend? Oh, man. Talk about Hangry Halk. It's just awful - and after we eat, we can both admit that it happened somehow! It's so embarrassing.

i used to get hangry all the time - then my doctor put me on a special diet to control my blood sugar and adrenal fatigue (no sugar, gluten, and lots of others), and now i barely ever experience that hangry feeling anymore. my husband is very grateful. :)

I, too, get hangry. My husband is also one of those people who forgets to eat. In college, his roommate would say, "OK lets eat dinner." And my husband would respond with, "But we already ate?" And the roommate (who also gets hangry) would reply, "Yes, but that was at 10 this morning. It's not 5 in the afternoon, we should eat again."

I can't imagine not having those natural triggers that signal hunger. After living together for so long, sometimes I lapse into his eating style but I always get hangry and end up having a snack in the middle. It's particularly bad on car trips. You're stuck in a car with someone who doesn't understand the DIRE CONSEQUENCES of not having exactly the right thing to eat, at the precise time you discover you're hangry. Horrible. I hope our future kids get his genes and are spared my hangry-ness.

I finally found the perfect word to describe how I feel when I get a hunger attack!! I'm hypoglycemic so when I miss a meal or snack I get VERY VERY "hangry" (to the point of being out of control!) Not a pretty sight to see!!

My boyfriend gets HANGRY! I didn't notice it until our first trip together. A non regular eating schedule. We call it cranky. When I told him about "hangry" he was not amused. He declared that he is definitely more cranky than angry. Maybe if I had given him a snack first he would have been more ok with the term.

Now we have a snack plan whenever we go out. Makes shopping trips so much better. Though it is always a struggle when we are with my constantly dieting family.

This is a word our family uses and knows well. Love the pillow.