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6352523 No.6352523 [Reply] [Original]

>zesty

What does it even mean?

>> No.6352527

>>6352523

Bright. Fresh. A short burst of intense flavors.

You know, like the taste of zest--the finely grated outside layer of citrus skin. You have tasted this before, right?

>> No.6352532

>>6352527
You're talking to a gorilla, do you think he's tasted this before?

>> No.6352535

pungent, but not in the onion and garlic sense.

more in a strong herb and citrus peel sense.

>> No.6352538

>>6352523
zesty (adjective, \ˈzes-tē\)

1. having a strong, pleasant, and somewhat spicy flavor

Etymologically, it comes from

zest (n.) 1670s, from French zeste "piece of orange or lemon peel used as a flavoring," of unknown origin. Sense of "thing that adds flavor" is 1709; that of "keen enjoyment" first attested 1791.

Roughly synonymous with "piquant."

>> No.6352540

>>6352527
Yeah but I just heard pepperoni being described as zesty in a commercial. How is that comparable to something citrusy?

>> No.6352549

>>6352540
It has a strong, pleasant, and somewhat spicy flavor.

>> No.6352553

>>6352540
Lemon zest doesn't taste like lemonade. It's a bitter, almost spicy flavor.

In any case, "zesty" does not specifically refer to citrus flavors; it has been extended by analogy to refer to any particularly intense, "sharp", but tasty flavor.

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6352554

>>6352549
>pepperoni
>pleasant

>> No.6352556

>>6352554
Obviously lots of people enjoy it, or they wouldn't keep selling it.

>> No.6352558

>>6352556
Gotta please the pleb masses.

>> No.6352559

>>6352558
>The very fact that a majority of people disagree with me makes my subjective opinions and tastes objectively correct!

>> No.6352578

>>6352559
#REKT

>> No.6352584

>>6352523
>Full Definition of ZESTY. : having or characterized by zest : appealingly piquant or lively
Google is your friend.

>> No.6352586

I thought it was a pleasant way to describe sour.

>> No.6352592

>>6352586
that'd be tangy.

>> No.6352602

>>6352586
that's because you are an ignorant mong.

>> No.6352614

>>6352532
>gorilla
That's an orangutan.

>> No.6352619

>>6352592
Helpful.
>>6352602
And then there's this faggot.

>> No.6352893

>>6352614
>orang utan
>not orang at all

nice disinfo bro

>> No.6353257

>>6352538
>comes from french
lolno
It comes from Greek ζεστη (pronounced the same as 'zesty'), where it means "hot/spicy." One could use the word in Greek to mean 'hot' as in temperature as well as 'hot' as in 'piquant/spicy.'

https://www.google.com/search?q=%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7+in+english