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Gatarix posted...

HashtagSEP posted...

Basically, you can say "I'm making Sloppy Joe sauce/meat," and say "I'm eating Sloppy Joe sauce/meat" if you're eating it out of a bowl

But you aren't actually eating a Sloppy Joe. Just like if you are eating pepperoni and cheese, you're not having a pizza. If you eat melted cheese, you're not having a grilled cheese.

So while it doesn't just become some other thing, you're only eating part of it, so it's hard to argue it's the same thing.

But if you eat a burger without the bun, you're still eating a burger.

(I'm not disagreeing with you I just think it's weird how "sloppy joe" is the sandwich and "burger" is, well, the burger)

To be fair, that's because the name never changes between "a hamburger" and "hamburger."

Though if you're just eating a patty by itself, you typically wouldn't tell people "Oh, I'm eating a hamburger." You'd say something like "I'm eating a hamburger patty." It's natural to come up with a way to describe it since you know people will picture it wrong otherwise.

Thus, saying "I ate a sloppy joe" if you just ate the meat out of a bowl isn't really correct, since it's not actually conveying what you ate.
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