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savoury

English translation: not sweet

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English term or phrase:savoury
Selected answer:not sweet
Entered by: Mohamed Fouda

15:53 May 21, 2020
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama /
English term or phrase: savoury
So your first challenge
is to make a savoury picnic pie.
When you cut into it
we'd like some kind of design inside.
Remember it is for a picnic,
so it should be presented out of the tin.
The reason why we chose
the savoury picnic pie in this challenge.

Is 'savourvy picnic pie' a type of specific pie? I mean, does savory here means yummy or delicious, or is it just a salty or spicy pie?

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Mohamed Fouda
Egypt
Local time: 23:31
not sweet
Explanation:
I know David said this as a part of his answer, but his emphasis is wrong in my opinion. We're not trying to get viewers' mouths watering - this simply means that the pie is not sweet. Apples and cherries are sweet, potatoes and onions are savory.
Selected response from:

philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
Thank you all so much!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +6not sweet
philgoddard
5 +2tasty and spicy
David Hollywood
5 -2attractive to the sense of taste or smell
Kiet Bach
3 -2with a bit of salt/salty
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -2
attractive to the sense of taste or smell


Explanation:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/savoury

Kiet Bach
United States
Local time: 13:31
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: Not here! Clearly, there would be no logic to their asking for a pie that was UNattractive, which would be the logical opposition to this!
38 mins
neutral  philgoddard: As opposed to "we're going to make an unsavory pie"?
40 mins
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: not an explanation of savoury
3 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
tasty and spicy


Explanation:
that's what it means

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Note added at 12 mins (2020-05-21 16:06:26 GMT)
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Savoury food is salty or spicy and not sweet in taste.

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Note added at 14 mins (2020-05-21 16:08:24 GMT)
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this is for a tv show so they're always looking for something out of the ordinary

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Note added at 15 mins (2020-05-21 16:09:31 GMT)
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we need terms that get the viewers mouth to water

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Note added at 21 mins (2020-05-21 16:15:18 GMT)
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"savoury" literally means "spicy" or "salty" as opposed to "sweet" but I think you could also add "tasty" to get the viewers' taste buds going

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Note added at 27 mins (2020-05-21 16:21:03 GMT)
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anyway up to you as the asker

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Note added at 32 mins (2020-05-21 16:26:35 GMT)
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should read "viewer's mouth" or "viewers' mouths"

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Note added at 34 mins (2020-05-21 16:27:47 GMT)
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anyway that's not the issue here...

David Hollywood
Local time: 17:31
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rocsana Guignaudeau: As in the Webster's English Dictionary
8 mins
  -> thanks Rocsana
agree  Lydia De Jorge
23 mins
  -> thanks Lydia and stay safe
neutral  philgoddard: I don't agree with your initial answer. It's nothing to do with how good it tastes, in my opinion.
28 mins
neutral  Tony M: Like Phil, i don't think this is qualitative; nor do I especially thing it is 'spicy': it just means 'not sweet'
32 mins
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: only thing I agree with is "not sweet"
3 hrs
  -> do you guys ever go to sleep lol ciao for now and zzzes
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
not sweet


Explanation:
I know David said this as a part of his answer, but his emphasis is wrong in my opinion. We're not trying to get viewers' mouths watering - this simply means that the pie is not sweet. Apples and cherries are sweet, potatoes and onions are savory.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Thank you all so much!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, precisely! This is clearly what the context requires. In general contexts, 'savoury' opposes 'sweet'.
2 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Becca Resnik: Agree with your and Tony's comments.
27 mins
agree  Ana Maia de Goes: Agree
30 mins
agree  Sheila Wilson
2 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: exactly what I said previously https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-french/cooking-culinar...
3 hrs
agree  AllegroTrans: sweet and savoury; clear opposites. Surely both can be "tasty"?
1 day 6 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -2
with a bit of salt/salty


Explanation:
https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=zzv-uEc6v3oC&pg=PA315&l...

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 15:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: no it isn't
2 hrs
disagree  AllegroTrans: Another frankly ridiculous answer; try looking at the dictionary definition of savoury
1 day 6 hrs
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