Bit
Bit noun - Something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury.
Usage example: wielding silver trays, the servers offered partygoers a variety of exotic-looking bits
Nearby Word: bite
Dessert
Dessert noun - A dish served as the last course of a meal.
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Bleak Expectations: A few days on a dessert note No, it's an island made out of dessert island drive Pip Bin utterly mad, to the extent that he loses track of time, and considers eating himself, only relenting when he realises this is "probably a bit of an own goal".
Source: Sanity Slippage -
A bit rarer is the suitor giving something apparently common to his love (a ring, a dessert, a decorative object), just to explain that the price is actually equal to that of a house or race car.
Source: Grand Romantic Gesture -
The British Army went to quite a bit of trouble to avert this one a few years back when they updated their field rations, and even the previous generation weren't too bad, except for that one dessert you had to break up with a rock.
Source: Food Pills
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