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Old 17-09-2008, 21:46
petertard
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me dad, wot is dead now, so he's like me dead dad, well, he used to talk about "Delicatessen", when he was imparting wisdom to me on the subject of food. Now me dad was a Slovak, from the then Czechosolvakia, wot is not Slovakia and the Czech republic = anyway, he used to be a chicken slaughterer to start with, then he became a grocer; so he thought the height of food at the best, like the top of it, was the Delicatessen, but then he used to speak German, so it must derive from that, I guess.
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Old 17-09-2008, 23:30
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You was right wot you wrote

Delicatessen is a term meaning "delicacies" or "fine foods". The word entered English via German, with the old German spelling (modern German: Delikatessen), plural of Delicatesse "delicacy", ultimately from Latin delicatus.

The term delicatessen has a secondary meaning in some countries, referring to stores that sell delicatessen, hence a shortened term for delicatessen store, sometimes additionally shorted to the informal term deli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen
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