Discerning Palate

by John Wigger on November 2, 2009

My buddy Bill helped me out with the writing on this strip.

[[George and John are in the Living Room. John sits on the sofa eating chicken.]]
George: Have we got anything to eat?

John: It's either the Corporal's chicken here, or the hobo foot that's been behind the dumpster for two days.

John: Where are you going?
George: To get that foot.

George: I'm no gourmand, but I do have standards.

JWaite

Hate to point this out, but a gourmand enjoys food and eating in general, where as a gourmet enjoys well prepared and refined foods. So in other words, a gourmet would have a discerning palate, a gourmand would not.
I knew those culinary classes would come in handy someday.
- Justin, AKA Chef Ygthmor

JWaite

Arrrrg! I hate when every source doesn’t agree with the meaning of a word! Just found another source that gives gourmand and gourmet the same definition, but adds that a gourmand enjoys in excess.
All I know is that I was told in Culinary Theory we could try and attract two types of customers. Stuffy gourmets that would only enjoy the finest, best prepared foods with fancy sounding french names, or gourmands that would enjoy real foods and not care if you serve that fancy stuff.

http://www.zombieroomie.com John Wigger

Really, thank you for taking the time to call me on something that you think I did wrong, or could have done better.

I really take it as a compliment that you care enough to bother.

I’m still learning on the ‘job’ here and having anyone just read these comics is great, but, having people interact at this stage is fan-freakin-tastic.

http://www.zombieroomie.com John Wigger

Bill, or Morthion if you remember, has the best vocabulary of anyone I know. One of the dude’s favorite pastimes is reading the Oxford English Dictionary: The definitive record of the English Language.

But, thank you Justin for pointing out the real world practical word use. This is why people say languages are alive or dead; people use, miss use, and create words all the time.

Perfidy

One could have used either word, gourmet or gourmand, in this instance and still have produced a grammatically correct sentence. However, gourmand seems more appropriate, given that George is headed off to eat a rotting human foot.

And John is right about the OED. If I were forced to choose one book to read until the end of eternity, the OED would be my selection. If I got to pick two, the second would be A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language.
froggoddess

Thank you for putting the transcript up… I’ve been curious as to how the script is formatted in comics, as I might want to start writing one myself.

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