Irony
Posted by Lewis on July 11, 2003
In Reply to: Fine Comestibles posted by Gary on July 11, 2003
: : : I'm setting up an all Australian gourmet business, and one of my suppliers refers to some of her products as 'Fine Comestibles'. I have never heard the word 'comestibles' before. Have any of you, and what precisely does it mean?
: : Yes. Things to eat.
: My bet is that your supplier doesn't just sell them either. Pound to a penny she 'purveys' them.
: My brother is over in the UK from New Zealand at present. He's off to York today to be a tourist. I warned him to expect shedloads of 'ye olde' culture. 'Peddlers Inne, purveyor of fyne wynes to the gentry since 1492' - that kind of thing.
"fine comestibles" is usually used with a degree of humour or irony. I recall a comedy in which somebody referred to "cheesy comestibles" as an alternative way of saying "a piece of cheese".
- Irony Bob 07/11/03
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