Is gum food?

[EGarrett]

Is gum food?

[Tricky]

Is gum food?
Depends on if it is sugarless. The chicle is indigestible.

[Roboramma]

Since this is the religion and philosophy forum, I assume you mean this in a metaphysical sense. I will respond with that in mind.

Gum is food for the soul. It offers it the nourishment of pleasure and taste. A freedom from the pain of a dry mouth or bad breath. Much like food extinguishes the pain of hunger.

[zakur]

I guess it depends on whether or not you believe chewing = eating (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=26651).

[Rufo]

Everything is food if you eat it. And since people sometimes consciously swallow their gums, despite if eating = chewing or not, I suppose gum can be defined as food.

[slingblade]

Consumption is not the sole criteria for determing foodstuffs. Eating dirt doesn't confer nutrition on dirt, nor make it safe to consume.

Poisons are eaten; they hardly qualify as food, as they do not serve to supply nutrients, but serve to kill.

A thing, like gum, can be considered edible, but just because something's edible doesn't make it food. My definition of food includes, but is not limited to, a sustenance factor, which includes nutrients or other aspects upon which the body relies. One can't, for instance, find much nutrition in water, but we need it to live.

Which, of course, causes this post to segue into the nutrition of air, which leads to Breatharians, which naturally causes this:

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5012/days4wk9ta.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[slickcat]

Kittens in 6 posts! Is that a record?

[kmortis]

I think the record is 2 posts. It would take some checking, although, IIRC it was an Iamme thread.

[rharbers]

Is gum food?

Only if this is a Stoic joke at the expense of Epicurean Speculative Philosophy.

[T'ai Chi]

My grandmother, when she was a little girl in the 1920's, would buy baseball cards just for the gum. She'd throw the cards away

[Mercutio]

It depends--do you spit or swallow?


And yes, I did see the "g", you naughty person...

[SirPhilip]

Is gum food? I'm skeptical.

[Iacchus]

Gumbo?

[Beerina]

My grandmother, when she was a little girl in the 1920's, would buy baseball cards just for the gum. She'd throw the cards away

Idiot prolly never invested in GM, either. :mad:

[Serenity]

Gumbo?:D I was thinking Gummy Bears.

[LordoftheLeftHand]

I would say yes, especially if it has sugar in it. Would a lollipop be considered food? I would think so because you suck the sugar off it. I would think the same thing would apply to gum.

As far as a religious aspect:
Just make up whatever answer you like, isn't that what religion is all about anyway (picking and choosing what you want to believe in)? :D

LLH