@Satsuma @wallhackio @gaditb @Lady I don't know, I mean I think on its own it's a pretty *bad* food, but I think that of surströmming too and I assume most people would call that food, of some kind or other.
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@aschmitz @wallhackio @gaditb @Lady i think if a country has a named holiday for the first day that a food is available each year that involves people queuing outside the grocery store at seven in the morning and the whole stock selling out in under ten minutes we can, in fact, safely assume this is a semantically reasonable answer to “what is your favorite food” (cite: https://www.courthousenews.com/supply-of-smelly-fermenting-herring-not-meeting-swedish-demand/ )
@Satsuma @aschmitz @wallhackio @gaditb ok but we have holidays for wheat
@Lady @wallhackio @aschmitz @gaditb these holidays do not involve eating plain flour
@Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz @gaditb do you think wheat is a food but not flour??? flour is just crushed wheat
@Lady @Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz Wheat and flour are both food-ingredients, and not food themselves. (The categories are very much not exclusive.)
There are foods that technically people will identify the food-ingredient form and the food form, and call them the same -- pastas, bulghur and stuff, beans, tea and coffee, etc. -- because there is effectively only one way to cook them (with water) into food.
Flour is different here because it has many common uses and so doesn't have an effective primary "this is what cooked flour is" form to identify it with.
@Lady @Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz (So to answer about salad -- it's a food composed of multiple ingredients, and those ingredients (I'm skipping dressing and herbs/spices for now, that would make this sentence more complicated than this parenthetical already does) are also, individually, themselves foods.)
@gaditb @Satsuma @wallhackio @aschmitz but it can give you e coli, so it is poisonous, so not food
