Widely regarded as the ultimate compendium of prehistoric dietary trends and chicanery, the first edition of the Anorexicon was compiled by a group of enterprising young graduate students, former bandmates, current siblings, and New York City librarians around the turn of the century. Frustrated by the dearth of available reference materials on topics such as the rise and fall of TubTub Migrotics in Pangaea and The Batman Diet, they decided to round up the primary sources and take matters into their own hands.

The resulting text — “Prehistory of the New Diets, vol. I” — succeeded in linking modern “scientific” diets with antihistorical postdiets in ways previously thought to be either impossible or pointless. The Anorexicon was immediately translated into 700 languages and withdrawn from circulation by the American Society of Middle Schools for its editorial stance on Anal Enlargement, which it endorsed by turns as “conducive to efficiency” and “better for enlightened children than piano lessons.”