Location: Oakland, CA. Posts: 1,133. The reason I like savory things is because there is a taste that sort of mimics salt. For example, a bagel with cream cheese, tomato and onion tastes salty to me, but just cream cheese and onion or cream cheese and tomato alone do not have the salty taste., too, have suddenly noticed this word creeping into American English. I always thought it just meant tasty, but I guess the Brits use it to mean something like meaty. You've got your sweet pies (apple, etc.) and your savory pies (meat pies). But I guess meaty is just one type of savory.
As vastly different as they are, both Metropolis and Gotham City are supposed to be New York. (Indeed, Batman stories were set in New York durign the early 1940s.) It was comics writer and artist John Byrne (who revamped Superman in the 1980s) who said Metropolis is New York by day, and Gotham is New York by night.
Every one has a different location for these two towns, but the way I heard it years ago at Comiccon in SanDeigo with Bob Kane and Joe Shueman(sp). Metropolis is New York but New York also exists in the DC universe. So it would be like a second New York. Originally Bob Kane said that Gotham was also New York, but then when DC Put both Batman and Supes in the same universe, he changed it to Boston or Philadelphia, depending on whichever worked best for his stories.