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UhhMaybeNot t1_je8q2he wrote

I think if you can count one kernel of popcorn as a food item then you can count one grain of rice, in which case absolutely no contest, rice is eaten every day by like half the world population and also intentionally thrown on the ground a lot at weddings.

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tom0dell t1_je9d0n4 wrote

And unintentionally thrown on the floor by me when I open the packet

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StillNotaKorean t1_jeaqg5p wrote

Wouldn't one dust of flour count too in that case?

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UhhMaybeNot t1_jec30rq wrote

One kernel of corn and one grain of rice is how those things naturally occur, without being ground up into much smaller pieces, kind of a completely different category, but like this is entirely a silly hypothetical thought experiment so you can set whatever parameters for "single object of food" to whatever you want, you could consider a molecule of soup if you go far enough down the chain

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StillNotaKorean t1_jec9ato wrote

For the premise of the stupid discussion to work I figured any piece of cookable physically distinguishable food object could enter the draft. Meaning dust of flour might be ok, but molecule is not. Same goes for water droplet aka fine, but water molecule is not. Also, should liquids even count? Since you set the parameters to a whole piece of cookable food aka popcorn. Which makes a cooked grain of rice okay, but a dust of flour debatable because unlike puffed rice or popped corn no one ever said "I'll just have one" to a dust of cooked flour or a crumb of bread but I'm open to discuss it.

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