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@wallhackio @aschmitz @Lady @gaditb grasshoppers are ingredients
@Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz @Lady Not specifying this was intentional, but thinking of "grasshopper" in the context of food I was thinking of the... dried? roasted? I don't remember, whole grasshopper---
EDIT: gosh DARN it, I meant "locust". I don't think this changes any consideration for anyone except me.
-- whole locust I was offered to eat and which a friend did,
and in the same vein as "rice" being uncooked a food-ingredient but cooked a food that we also call "rice" and we identify both of them together because there's an obvious canonical cooked form.
(Again, not mentioning that explicitly was intentional, because this is my framework of how to think of it and I didn't want to impose that on other people for their answer.)
@aschmitz @gaditb @wallhackio @Lady i guess this does also raise the related question about whether the kosher status of the thing in question makes it food / not food or merely permissible / impermissible food which i believe is a distinction made about different types of edible locusts
@Satsuma @aschmitz @wallhackio @Lady The point I'm trying to get here is not my-judgement-of-the-kashrut-status of something in general -- I've e.g. eaten food cooked by friends who don't have separate sets of cookware, which I would hold as "not kosher" --
but that, from how I was raised with that kashrut practice and what sense of "what food is" that brought up in me,
my reaction to seeing someone cooking chicken and as part of that process pouring milk on it is the same as my reaction to if they had poured bleach or elmer's glue on it instead.*
It passes in that moment from "food or ingredients capable of becoming food" to "this is not and is not capable of becoming something edible".
(* I want to make it really clear that I, like, know how to separate that one instinct about the-food-itself from my actual thinking about, like, other people eating it. I have a lot of practice doing that. In any practical sense this just applies to me/my experience.)
@Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz @Lady Also to be clear, since I guess I can't answer my own polls --
my answer (MY answer, not "the answer I think other people should have even within my framework") to my first question is "not a food".
