Question 3

I have a friend who believes that all foods are either a soup, salad, or sandwich. For her, everything fits into one of these categories. Popcorn chicken is a salad. A quiche is a sandwich. Perhaps most contentious, cookies are classified as a dry soup. 

We have spent hours trying to find exceptions to this rule, but have only found one. If a food item is just one thing—for example, an apple—that would be classified as an ingredient. Ingredients are separate from the soup, salad, sandwich categories. A steak is an ingredient. Steak with fries is a salad. 

Can you come up with a better oversimplification than this one? Under what three categories could you classify the most things? If you need it, you can have one exception. 



Questions for further discussion:
1) What values do your oversimplification emphasize?
2) Is there anything this oversimplification helps to reframe?
3) What are the limits of this oversimplification?
4) Did you find these extra questions fun?

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