Gluttony

Perhaps it is my dislike of crowds. Perhaps it is my aversion to crowds of people, all of whom are jostling one another to get to food. Perhaps it is my general intolerance of great groups of people, people pushing and shoving to stuff themselves full of greasy, fried foodstuffs, some of which passes as meat. No, this is not a tirade against Minnesota's Great Get Together (which I actually enjoy in a twisted way -- the seed art, giant vegetables, and the poultry barn, especially) but against the Twin Cities pigout, the Taste of Minnesota or, as I fondly call it, Gluttony Fest.

Hence, the General Vocabulary Installation #2.
(from the OED)
Gluttony

derived from the Old French, glutunie, glutonie, also glouternie; abstract noun related to glutton, which is from the Old French, glutun, gluton, which is from the Latin, glutonem, the noun related to glutire, to gulp down, to swallow.

definition: the vice of excessive eating. (One of the Seven Deadly Sins).

Quotation: 1752 HUME Pol. Disc. ii. 28 The Tartars are oftener guilty of beastly gluttony, when they feast on their dead horses, than European courtiers with all their refinements of cookery.

What is the proper use of the term "gluttony"?
a) Don't worry, Martha; after all, he didn't rupture his gluttony.
b) Gluttony aside, there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
c) Those who gorge on horse are guilty of gluttony.

The Dickinsonian oracle's rumination on gluttony:

The Road to Paradise is plain -
And holds scarce one -
Not that it is not firm
But we presume
A Dimpled Road
Is more preferred -
The Belles of Paradise are few -
Not me - not you -
But unsuspected things -
Mines have no Wings -
(E. Dickinson, 1525).