Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 13, 2020

Ah, OK. I was thinking I heard they were something else in “Night Court”, but that turned out to be “sweetbread”, not “sweetmeat”.

you’re a sly one, Charlie Brown

He was, Patty. He just called them by a different name to trick you, you entitled, bossy little — darling!

Here, Patty — have a thymus.

I had to look it up, “Sweetmeats” is another word for candy or other confections!

Been a while since I’ve had fudge, a well-known sweetmeat. The fudge shops have yet to reopen.

There’s more to it than meats the eye, Patty!

Although I know the TERMS, “sweetbreads” and “sweetmeats”, I have never heard anyone call meat or candy by these words. I’ve only stumbled across the words in books.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweetmeat

Party’s not too smart…

I’ve only heard the term used in the Monty Python sketch as John Cleese of the police hygiene squad protests that a candy’s name is “an inadequate description of the sweetmeat!”

I wonder how people got the joke back in 1950-whatever, when they didn’t have the internet to look it up and had to rely on what they actually knew.

I’ve never heard that word/expression before.

I love it! Sweetmeats is another name for candy. It is any sweet delicacy of the confectionery or candy kind, as candied fruit, sugar-covered nuts, sugarplums, bonbons, or balls or sticks of candy

He was. Another term for candy is sweetmeat. The thymus is a sweetbread.

An antiquated term…