Let's think about this here. Ice is something you can eat, but it also melts in your mouth as you crunch, so you are really drinking it then. Is it a food or drink? Many people don't even eat the ice... does that make it something else altogether? What's your take on it?^Me at 2AM here, asking the important questions
Ice is a food.
Ice is a drink.
Ice is neither drink nor food. It lives on a plane of existence far beyond these mere two categories, condescendingly laughing at our normality.
Well, according to "Dictionary. com," food is defined as -"any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc."
as well as
- "more or less solid nourishment, as distinguished from liquids." or -"a particular kind of solid nourishment"
I believe that most people believe "food" is something solid that is taken into the body for some sort of nourishment or nutrition, so they might consider ice to be food. If you think about it, almost every type of solid food can be reduced into its liquid form which will make it a drink then. In short, I personally think food is solid nourishment or nutrition, whereas drinks are the liquid forms of nourishment or nutrition.
Ice is a drink just because it is solid doesn't mean it's food. Ice is a liquid in a solid state fundamentally you can eat it solid but no matter what the 37 degree body heat will turn it into liquid and from there it's absorbed as a liquid. You could also say it's food as liquid is food as well as meat and stuff like that. It depends on your definition of food in this question. If you want to go really complex it's a well known fact food even meat contains water especially vegetables so eating them also means eating water.
lol I mean I could go even further by telling you that on some planets ice is a gas and salt is the water. On our planet it's impossible for graphite to melt it instead goes straight from a solid to a gas that may sound strange but you've seen something similar just gotten used to it is all. By normal logic then if you put wood in fire the solid should become a liquid but instead the solid becomes a gas not a liquid similar principle.
To answer this, it's essential we define what food is.
"any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth."
Ice is just frozen water, something essential to maintain our survival, so I'd argue it would fit into the category of food. However, food is digested, water, which is what ice becomes, is not. Therefore I have to banish it from the food category. Considering the definition of a drink:
"take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow."
Ice is also banished from that category, and I have no choice but to vote C. Ice is in its own league and beyond our mortal selves.
Due to the fact that anything can be a sandwich if you try hard enough, it could very well be 🤔 Stack 3 on top of each other so there's a bottom, top, and filling and bam, you've got an ice sandwich
It's a food, specifically a sandwich, yet also a drink when it melts, yet is neither at the same time... see, this is what I mean, ice is a chaotic evil substance that is beyond us
Well, technically one could argue that a drink like water is even a sandwich if the definition is extra loose. Maybe the water could be divided into 3 groups of atoms/particles, forming a sandwich. Maybe the glass is the casing/bread and the water is the filling, and we just skip the bread and eat the filling.
I agree entirely and cannot argue with that at all, that makes perfect sense. Water is a sandwich, the ocean is just a massive sandwich, and the land is its bread. I think the food kingdom has officially been overrun by sandwiches. #ChaoticSandwichEvilWins
Ice isn't a food as it has almost zero nutritional value and isn't digested, but it's also not a drink since it's solid. If you were crush the ice in your mouth then at first the heat would melt the ice and it would then be a drink but the longer you do this the colder your mouth will get and the less ice will melt leaving you with just slush and a very very cold and most likely painful mouth. Also my teeth hurt the entire time I typed this out, thanks 😛
I'd say it's a drink because it has no caloric value and unless your are barbaric and swallow the ice then you probably are like most people who chew it and it melts before you swallow it thus making it a drink.
"Food" usually has nutrients and vitamins and a bunch of other elements that our body consumes. Water is H2O and beyond that, not much else. Whether in liquid or solid form, it's still H2O, and whether water is naturally solid ice or liquid is still the same thing.
I say a drink because regardless if you let it melt in your mouth or chew it up and swallow, you body heat will turn it back to liquid and be used as a liquid in your body. There is nothing else for your stomach or body to break down from it.
You don't eat it and then poop it out. It goes to the bladder.
Ice is not good, it's not food you should NEVER drink with it and you should NEVER crunch it.
In developed countries (US excluded) it is well known to be a source of tons of deseases and reduces the immune system during hot weather as it confuses the biological thermometer.
Eating ice cream or drinking cold drinks does not cause the same damage a sub zero ice does.
Depends. If you put it in a bowl and use spoon for it then it's a food. If you put it in a glass and use straw for it then it's a drink. That applies for soup. But ice is usually served in a glass with straw and soup is usually served in a bowl with spoon so ice is a drink.
Ice, of course, is simply water in a different state of matter. Or is water simply ice that has reached its melting point?
I have a snow-cone maker (see picture) that shaves ice down into a pile of "snow" onto which I put any of a number of syrups for a nice treat for the summer. In this instance, the ice becomes a food: it is eaten with a spoon. Let it melt down a few minutes and stir and it becomes a Slurpee- I think that is a drink.
That depends, do you call an icecream a food or a drink? But you eat it so yeh, unless you suck it, then it's sucking and not eating... So erm... I don't really know, this is complicated.
Ice cream is maybe a food? I’m thinking that most people don’t really say “drinking ice cream,” but I don’t really know. I mean, people “drink” malts/milkshakes, even if they’re rather thick
It’s neither. It’s just really cold water used to cool down other things. I would say it’s more close to a food because you can’t drink a solid. When it melts, it’s not technically ice anymore.
I meant to choose food because of flavored shaved ice, ice pops, popsicles in general. If you wait for those things to melt and drink them you'll be considered weird.
I don't know I can’t remember which one it is the guy who’s in the movie theater and he’s like “hey I’m an ice cruncher and you can’t do anything about me disturbing your movie but what you can do is blah blah blah blah blah (I think maybe it was geico
Well, ice is not eaten by itself. You don't just eat ice cubes like that. They are usually in drinks to cool them but you don't actually eat the ice cubes.
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