I'm always happy to hear from my Sound Politics colleague and veteran Puget Sound-based blogger Jim Miller. He wonders if a beef roast can really be termed "nubile," a label I applied in this post yesterday.

Jim notes that the original meaning of nubile is "marriageable."

My reply to Jim's most worthy e-mail was as follows:

Jim, actually I am a dirty old man. Another, perhaps-related meaning for nubile, acc. to my Webster's, is "well endowed, sexually." Which in usages of "nubile" I have seen over the years in fiction etc., has morphed, in my mind at least, to a more general, "sexy," "comely," or "attractive." Which to a food lover like me, certainly can apply to a succulent roast. But while I love a good roast, I must admit I cannot see one as "marriageable."

Though perhaps with the right court ruling that could change.

BTW, it was a rump roast.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 8, 2004 10:03 AM

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