Can we all agree not to use "delicious" as a non-food related adjective?
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Anonymous
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"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). |
Anonymous
I think "delicious" is appropriate in a non-food context when discussing someone's comeuppance, using a certain undertone of Schadenfreude to work. Otherwise, I agree. |
Anonymous
go have delicious vomit then. |
Anonymous
That barely made sense. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
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OP I suggest you shut yourself in and become a hermit.
If you're around other people or engaged in social media in any way shape or form odds are someone is going to use "delicious" to describe something other than food so if you don't wanna puke you need to permanently isolate yourself because the country/society is not going to agree to that bullshit. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
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Awww, OP, don't be bitter!
(See what I did there?) |
Anonymous
Don't read any Victorian novels, then. The Victorians were constantly using "delicious" to describe non-food things. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
 this coming from someone wh just used "kiddies"
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Anonymous
That was her other favorite word.... |
Anonymous
| I'd much prefer if it people stopped using "sexy" unless they were literally talking to someone about sex. Co-workers, this means you! An exciting work development is not actually sexy! |
Anonymous
| "Delicious" as a non-food adjective makes me think of Austin Powers. That's not a good thing. |
Anonymous
| I agree with you on all points except babies. Babies ARE delicious. |