Talk:delicious

Sesame Street

I remember hearing a skit on Sesame Street a long time ago and all I can remember is "you're ......-ly delicious!" spoken to a kid playing on a swingset. I was probably about four years old, couldve been as much as eight though. I already knew what delicious meant, but assumed that I had just learned a new meaning of that word, though I wasnt quite sure what it was. I pretty much grew up thinking that second meaning was valid, but never used it as far as I know, because I was never quite sure how to use it and never thought of going to a dictionary. Does anyone remember that ? Was Sesame Street/CTW just messing with our minds? Even our secondary meaning, "metaphorically pleasing to taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind." seems a bit odd when talking to a person. Or, am I totally misremembering the skit? Soap (talk) 05:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Could be the D-U-C-K-I-E song: "D means you're delightful and delicious and so dear". Equinox ◑ 05:18, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, thank you for the unexpectedly quick reply. You have a good memory as I doubt that clip has been aired recently. It definitely wasnt the skit I saw, however; Im pretty sure it was a kid in a playground, not involving any Muppets. But, it doesnt matter, because the skit you showed has the same word in it, used in a similarly weird way, which proves that that sense of the word exists, at least in the mind of the Sesame Street producers in the 1980s. Additionally, that clip was from around the same era, so it could have been written by the same person. I still dont really get what the intended meaning is though. If I had to guess I'd say it just seems to be a synonym for "delightful (to spend time with)". I believe that delicious in the skit I remember was used to rhyme with some word, and the producer/writer may have just not been able to think of anything else. Soap (talk) 05:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)