This is one of those words you rarely hear outside some phrase about something negative:
Fodder -- inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand.
Which in turn is usually used such as fodder for the tabloids. I happened to use it today in a Discord chat and thought, wow I haven't heard that word in a long time, even longer since I've used it. I was surprised to find out it had another meaning:
something fed to domestic animals
It comes from Middle English, from Old English fōdor; akin to Old High German fuotar food. You also hear of it in the phrase: cannon fodder. Just so many uses for such an obscure word.
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