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You drink a drink and you eat an eat. Like in the show Good Eats.

Pathetic. In german(y) you can essen Essen in Essen.

I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as "drinks" and the language adapted.

A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, "eats". So you can " eat an eat"

Hah random hungary facts go: Hungarian is an agglutinative language which means we form much more of our active grammar with affixes than english for example. This means you can sorta just glue stuff together. "Inni innivalót": to drink a drink; "enni ennivalót": to eat food. But this also means you can for example form something like: "elintézni az elintéznivalót" which means "to deal with the thing that has to be dealt with". These are all nouns formed from verbs but you can also do the opposite by forming a verb from a noun "titkot titkol: hides a secret"(lit.: secrets a secret). Thank you for reading another of my linguistic rants 👍

If you're saying "Food a food", then a closer pairing would be "beverage a beverage"

You can quaff a drink instead.

Sweetmeat is candy but sweetbread is offal meat, discuss!

In arabic they say to food food.

In norwegian we say to butter butter.

But you can feed food.

Asking the real questions

Etymology is actually interesting if you really want to know answers like this (well, sort of answers anyhow).

I bring up nouns you can verb all the time. It's a great ice breaker, especially because so many are bodily functions. You can poop a poop. You can pee pee. You can fart a fart.

You can smell a smell, you can run an run, you can cough a cough, you can text text, you can photograph a photograph...

Once I heard the following from two Russian colleagues at works:

- Пить есть, есть нету?
- Есть есть, пить нету.

For more than a decade, I've been learning the language, for the art and jobs mainly, but that was quite hard to realize at the times...

Is this dog snoop or is this snoop dog?

Gerti gėrima Valgyti valgį.

You could food a food it's just not trendy. I am going to go food later.

Is "feed on food" close enough?

Eat an eats?

We don't use the word "comestible" enough.

Is that not just cooking?

You can snack on a snack.

Breakfast for breakfast. Lunch with lunch. Dine on dinner.

You can scran some scran (food)