Food for thought.

[songbird_slayer]

Sender: Madhuri Qalli
To: Everyone
Subject: Language is strange!


I was writing up menu ideas for next month and a thought occurred:

Should I list hot dogs under 'sandwiches', and a bowl of cereal under 'soup'?

Comments

[nulland]

They are like hot soups though from the fact that if you set out ingredients without broth you'd call it a salad. Or at least really oniony potatoes.

People call it a bowl of cereal with or without milk.

[songbird_slayer]

Do they? I call granola-mode cereal "sad".

[nulland]

I mean, I've still heard "cereal". Usually in something like "great, I already poured the cereal but I'm out of milk." The adjectives are going to vary person to person depending on how crazy they are.

[songbird_slayer]

Do tell. Do they call it anything else in your world?

[nulland]

I don't exactly go around taking notes on people's reactions to their breakfast, you know.

[songbird_slayer]

Then have you truly lived? It's the first meal of the day! How people feel about their breakfast should be incredibly important.

[nulland]

I haven't really spent much time around other people for a while now. When I actually am around them, asking what they thought about food isn't very high on the list of things to talk about.