When words were only words

[cpcliff]

Etymological musing of the day:

Delicatessen.

Roughly taken from a compound of two German words, Delikat, meaning delicate or in a certain sense light, and Essen, to eat. So to eat delicately, to eat lightly, an apt description for the convenient small portions afforded by a sandwich and a pickle. (Interesting to note that Delikatessen in

Comments

[blondierach]

Dorky's an understatement.

[smallpinkdragon]

agreed :-) i'm not even that dorky