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Interesting. Very interesting. And you have all of you including me been looking at the wrong word.

The use of conundrum to mean a difficult question is, at best, quite new. Here's from one online dictionary:

1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. 2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

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The usage quoted at the start of this thread is incorrect insofar as its use to describe a tough question. That use of the word conundrum is not reflected in my OED Compact Edition (the entire OED in reduced print format), though it is set forth in that fashion in the online Compact OED available through onelook.com.



That section of the brick and mortar edition of the OED was published in May, 1893. Definition 2 in the AHD is appropriate to this usage and, I think, fits quite well. I don't see any problem with the use of the word "conundrum" here. I still don't think "delicious" is a good choice of words.