Board 8 > Are soda, water, and beer edible?

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What about soup? You still eat soup, right? Although if you pour it into your mouth from a cup or bowl, that's drinking.

In my head if it quenches your thirst it's a drink, if it sates your hunger then it's a food. With the latter taking priority if it does both

beer is as much edible as a hot dog is a sandwich

Exactly. The similar word for a liquid is "potable"

Dumbest argument ever. You know how subsets work right?

Why do we have a different word for "eat" and "drink"?

Are you proposing that drinking is a subset of eating?

Well, the poll results are backing up my point.

To be more specific, we were playing one of those games where you guess whats on a card on your head. Mine was soda.

I asked if it was edible and it was no. Asked a lot more questions and eventually came around to is it food which was also no. I was absolutely stumped. They started giving more overt hints and eventually I managed to figure it out.

At that point Im like you stupid motherfuckers dont think soda is edible or food?!? I asked about water and beer and they said the same thing. Which is absolute insanity to me!

if it's not chewed it's clearly not food.

Ok sure, maybe technically by the definitions of the words drinks are food and are technically eaten. But I think colloquially, when people think of food/eating they are thinking of what we commonly call food. So I think its fair to say that soda is not a food because it is not what people typically thinking of when considering what is food.

If you had a glass of soda, and someone said are you going to finish eating that?, that would be an odd way to phrase that question.

If you had a glass of soda, and someone said are you going to finish eating that?, that would be an odd way to phrase that question.

But if they said "are you done eating?" and you said "yes", they would remove the soda from you along with the other food.

Flip the script: are water, soda, and beer inedible?

Edible means it can be safely consumed. Soda, water, and beer can be consumed without explicitly poisoning you or adding harmful substances. (Or at least they're FDA-approved.)

If you want to split hairs over semantics, be my guest, but there's no question in my mind that beverages are "edible." Whether or not they are food is less clear, and I would instinctively say no, not unless you're generally referring to items in a person's diet.

alcohol is poison, and therefore inedible

(Or at least they're FDA-approved.)

Drinking isn't a subset of eating. They're both subsets of, I dunno, ingesting? The drink there is part of the meal, and you're done with a meal when you're done eating.

Conversely, if you drank a breakfast smoothie for breakfast and someone asked if you ate breakfast, you would say no? If they asked how often you eat breakfast you would say never? That's straight up incorrect language.