Why is it that someone unsavoury is almost never sweet?
Word To Use Today: savoury. This word came into the English language in the 1200s. It was savure, then, from the Old French savourer, to savour. The Latin sapere means to taste.
Just to make things even more confusing, a savoury, meaning a small savoury course of a meal, is sometimes served at the beginning of a meal and sometimes as the last - after, or instead of, a dessert.
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In which case, I suppose, it might conceivably be described as both a savoury and a sweet.
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