Salad Earth Theory.

[Aidan-Collins1875]

There is an evident lack of what is to be considered an "edible food". Oxford dictionary uses the definition, "fit or suitable to be eaten", and defines eaten as "put into the mouth and chew and swallow it." This has a clear exclusion: water. As you do not chew water, or put it into the mouth, but rather pour it into the mouth, that means it cannot be eaten. If it is unfit to be eaten, it must not be edible, and therefore not an edible food, excluding water (or any liquid) from the conversation of edible foods. Additionally, the bounds of what is fit or suitable to be eaten are vague and unrestrictive. Chocolate and coffee may be considered edible to humans, however both would kill a dog. Additionally, milk must not be edible, as it is unfit to be consumed by a supermajority of adults (68% globally). If milk is considered edible, despite being unfit for most adults to consume, then why can dirt not be considered edible? And if dirt can be considered edible, why not metal? From 1978 to 1980, Michel Lotito ate an entire airplane. This creates a broader theory: it is true that all foods are a salad simply because EVERYTHING is a salad. Aluminum foil would be a low entropy hyper-salad, and an airplane would be a salad. Earth is a salad. We are a salad. Everything is a salad.

[NewAlexandria]

Salads of the Long Now

[gmalmquist]

This is a reasonable take, other than the dubious suggestion that food must be chewed. There's likely a spectrum of not-food to food which might be expressed by a measure such as (nutritive value) - (toxicity), and as long as we're leaning into the continuum fallacy to justify this whole mess in the first place, it's hard to argue against pretty much everything being "food"!

If you would like to expand upon this in an appendix and revise footnote 1, I'd be happy to review a pull request.