Talk:gourmand

Hello, in french
we now use mainly
 * 1/for somebody who has a sweet tooth : gourmand
 * 2/for somebody who appreciates fine food: gourmet, and gastronome (there may be a thousand restaurants called "Au rendez-vous des gastronomes" througout France). In slang : fine gueule.
 * 3/for somebody who is a glutton : glouton, goulu, goinfre. Boulimique is now very frequently used too. In slang : bâfreur (though we find it in Rabelais...). BTW : for those who’d like to (re)read some pages in  magnificent french about gluttonry, please go to Gustave Flaubert’s  Trois contes , §III of Hérodias (about the feast offered by Herode Antipas to young Aulus Vitellus)

And in spanish
 * 1/ goloso
 * 2/ gastrónomo, sibarita
 * 3/ glotón, comilón, tragón. The equivalent of our bâfreur would be tragaldabas (one who’d swallow knockers), along with the expression poder comer un estribo de cobre: "to be able to eat a copper stirrup" (found in La mala hora by Gabriel  García Márquez  ). T.y. Arapaima 15:15, 3 March 2010 (UTC)