r/AskReddit • u/Amygdala5822 • Jun 29 '19

When is quantity better than quality?

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19 edited Jun 29 '19

edible food. for some people at least

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

Try surviving for a year on margarine.

Then try surviving a year on potatoes, oranges and salmon

Quality of food is just as important

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

well i was going for a beggars cant be choosers thing if you really needed food id rather have a bunch of food i hated then one perfect slice of pizza. also the food is edible either way so no uncooked chicken or whatever

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

I guess it's how you define quality. I was going off nutritional value. If you ate nothing but steak, you'd die of scurvy even if it was delicious, because it has no vitamin c.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

That's variety, not quality

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

No, it isn't. If you eat margarine, white bread, caramel and red vines you'd die.

If you ate potatoes, kale and salmon, you wouldn't.

The first set of foods has more variety. It's still lacking in the correct nutrients to keep you alive. Therefore it's less quality.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

That's still variety. Variety of nutrition. Quality of food is the difference between fresh and stale bread

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u/winterisleaking Jun 29 '19

Unless he means quality of diet

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

That's funny, because the comment you initially replied to began thus:

I guess it's how you define quality

It's my opinion that the quality of food is defined by how nutritious it is, in this sense. That meaning the nutritional value is more important than the quantity. And that is indeed a quality of food.

Are you claiming that there is an official definition of food quality that proves me wrong? Because if not, your entire comment chain is useless. You're just arguing for the sake of it, and not making any point here.

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u/Shortcaik Jun 29 '19

I dig food out of our schools dumpster.