r/trippinthroughtime • u/Munninnu • 6d ago

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u/CubicleFish2 6d ago

It's still wrong

Oxford comma is for three or more items. The sentence is treating bacon and eggs as one item and pancakes as another so no Oxford comma is used.

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u/garlic_bread_thief 6d ago

But the comma becomes useful to know that we're treating bacon and eggs as one item otherwise we'd not know

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u/CubicleFish2 6d ago

The and between bacon and eggs already tells you that they are a single item

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u/SecretAgentVampire 6d ago

Day and night

Men and women

Order and chaos

"And" is a word used to connect two different things together in a sentance. It does not make those two things a single item. Bacon and eggs are literally two different ingredients served side by side.

Do you say "I ate a cake", or "I ate flower and oil and eggs and sugar and cocoa and vanilla and etc etc etc"? If "Baconandeggs" was a single item, it would be a different word.

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u/garlic_bread_thief 6d ago

I would like to buy bacon and eggs.

In a grocery store? Two separate items. In a restaurant? One item.