Can we all agree not to use "delicious" as a non-food related adjective?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a nanny and find baby toes and belly buttons delicious on a regular basis. Use the right word for the right situation. Now ridiculous is one that I'd like to see tempered a bit. It's becoming way overused and not always in proper context.

Are you by chance a nanny in downtown Bethesda? If so, you once called my baby delicious and it was really weird.

[Anonymous]

"Can we all agree..." threads rarely go well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. If it goes into your mouth, use it-food or not. Otherwise, prepare to be made fun of and ridiculed.

Prepare to be ignored or reported.

Really? You aren't doing so well at ignoring her, so let's hope you aren't tattling over what should be a fun thread. Why do people take these so seriously. You don't HAVE to do what OP says. She's just telling her pet peeve. It's more fun when these threads pile on than when people start rebuking OPs for ranting. We all like to rant.

OP, on a similar vein, I did not like it when English people called a food "nice". Food can't be "nice". But oh well, that's language I guess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. If it goes into your mouth, use it-food or not. Otherwise, prepare to be made fun of and ridiculed.

Prepare to be ignored or reported.

Really? You aren't doing so well at ignoring her, so let's hope you aren't tattling over what should be a fun thread. Why do people take these so seriously. You don't HAVE to do what OP says. She's just telling her pet peeve. It's more fun when these threads pile on than when people start rebuking OPs for ranting. We all like to rant.

OP, on a similar vein, I did not like it when English people called a food "nice". Food can't be "nice". But oh well, that's language I guess!

In a rant thread fine but when someone just has to pipe into a thread with "Wednesdays cannot be delicious you trashy rube!!!" yea, I'm going to report that. Posters who come into thread to make fun of and ridicule other posters add nothing to that thread and often derail it.

[Anonymous]

A long and thick appendage that my husband has is indeed quite delicious. All 8 glorious delicious inches.

8 delicious inches are just so lip lickingly delicious down to the last drop.

[Anonymous]

Why can't food be nice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Delicious" is for food. Let's all agree to use it only to describe actual food.
You don't have a "delicious secret."
Your day on the couch watching TV wasn't "amazingly delicious."
Your new baby isn't "delicious."
Your new designer dress isn't "so deliciously soft."
It makes me vomit. Thank you and have a nice day (not a delicious day).

Ditto for "yummy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Delicious" is for food. Let's all agree to use it only to describe actual food.
You don't have a "delicious secret."
Your day on the couch watching TV wasn't "amazingly delicious."
Your new baby isn't "delicious."
Your new designer dress isn't "so deliciously soft."
It makes me vomit. Thank you and have a nice day (not a delicious day).

Ditto for "yummy."

Its not though. That is not the only defined definition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, Oxford dictionary defines "delicious" as something delightful, and Cambridge as "used as describing a situation or activity which gives great pleasure".

Looks like the roots are in indulgence and pleasure, not necessarily particular to taste.

So, nope, I'll use delicious when the situation deems it. Like enjoying my delicious latte on this delicious day.

PP, what delicious irony. The OP does not sounds terribly pleasant, because of her attempt to limit the delightful use of a word to describe something other than food.
Perhaps she prefers yummy or nom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I completely agree with you. A mom at our former preschool used to describe everything the kiddies did as "delicious." She sounded about 18 years old.

this coming from someone wh just used "kiddies"

Ah, another example of delicious irony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I came to this thread hoping someone would post a beefcake photo of a delicious man (like Taye Diggs.) Now I'm sad.

Oh, god, post Idris Elba too. Talk about delicious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. If it goes into your mouth, use it-food or not. Otherwise, prepare to be made fun of and ridiculed.

Certain non-food items that go into my mouth are quite delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, Oxford dictionary defines "delicious" as something delightful, and Cambridge as "used as describing a situation or activity which gives great pleasure".

Looks like the roots are in indulgence and pleasure, not necessarily particular to taste.

So, nope, I'll use delicious when the situation deems it. Like enjoying my delicious latte on this delicious day.

The root word of delicious is delight, yes? Not a food word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. If it goes into your mouth, use it-food or not. Otherwise, prepare to be made fun of and ridiculed.

Prepare to be delicioused! And nom nom nommed!

[Anonymous]

Sexy bugs me. Do they want me to be thinking about the sex when they talk? I immediately think sex. And then scan their package. Stop saying it, lest you want wanton thought in your daily 3pm project update.