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No, this is not what people mean with "processed food" at all.
by dtech 4y ago
No, this is not what people mean with "processed food" at all.
- _aavaa_ 4y agoBut that is what the comment he's referring to means, that's the point.
- tomrod 4y agoRight, you're arguing a connotation on "processed" when the question was "would this hypothetical count as processed?" The hypothetical shows the disconnect between denotation and connotation.
- _aavaa_ 4y agoExcept that it was clear that I meant "processed" in the way that it is generally used in the context of "processed food" and not in the sense of "having had something done to it".
- pessimizer 4y agoThe argument is that it doesn't have a general meaning, so relying on that general meaning misses the point.
- _aavaa_ 4y agoAnd that argument is wrong. A “sandwich” doesn’t have an explicit general meaning, but almost nobody would classify a pizza as an open face sandwich. Likewise, the vast majority of people would consider a carrot (peeled or otherwise) “unprocessed food” and would consider cheetos “processed food”.
- tomrod 4y agoI'm not in it for the rightness and wrongness and virtue and exercises of justice to the carrots, I'm in it for your request as to whether peeling a carrot counts as processing, which it does, as sometimes the most banal of examples illustrate a tapestry of lived complexity. Carry on, friend.