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>After all, do you really expect to cover, for instance, “word salad”? This is covered further down in the article where it's pointed out that one of the Merriam-Webster definitions is >" A usually incongruous mixture : HODGEPODGE " The author points out that Merriam-Webster actually has a looser definition of salad than they do, because the article is only considering edible things to count. Also, I disagree - I don…
> Also, I disagree - I don't think "fruit salad", or "chicken salad", or "egg salad" etc are "figurative" (not sure what you even mean by that), I would absolutely consider them legitimate salads. I mean "figurative" in the typical sense: describing a thing using a word for a different thing in order to suggest a similarity between the two things. A fruit salad is fruit arranged similarly to how vegetables are arrang…
Re: Salad Theory
#61The difference here is, the fruit pizza couldn't possibly be a pizza, because it's a salad :) /j