vegitafalis?

vegitafalis? What the heck does that mean?

The year was 1988. I was starting a Dungeons and Dragons campaign in middle school with a new group of friends. I was making my character, but names were evading me. Others were content to rip off or riff on Tolkien, Dragonlance, and other popular fantasy properties of the day. I had to have something different and unique, but?

There on the table before me was the answer. A bag of vegetable chips and a carton of acidophilus-infused milk (my friend whose house it was was lactose intolerant). Put them together, and I had the name of my mighty hero, vegitophilus, which I didn't like the sound of so I changed it to vegitaphalus, and then people made phallus jokes, so I changed it to vegitafalis and a legend (hah hah) was born!

A word of my own inventions, this has been my handle and stage name ever since.