If you have a plate with at least three types of foods on it and one or more drinks with any meal of the day, (snack time-both midnight or otherwise-and brunch included) how exactly is half-eaten defined?
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1/2 Eaten38% Voted for by rappmasterM, The Blind Bandit, Kei-Aira, Weydon, looking4realtruth.
If you wanted to eat exactly half a meal, you would need to eat exactly half the volume of the meal. Plain and simple. Daily values are nutritional, and not to be used for measuring.
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When it's begun, but not finished15% Voted for by david, The Blind Bandit.
the "half-eaten" expression is used to describe any meal that has been begun, but not finished.
Like many kinds of animals, humans have an anxiety about food that is being eaten by an individual. Someone could take the food away while it is half eaten, and then you would go hungry unless you could find other food. Thats why the expression is often associated with being in a hurry, rushing, being interrupted and other stressful situations.
Since math is also a stressful, people don't refer to food that is 3/16ths finished 7/8ths etc. Rather they use the less precise, but more dramatic 1/2.
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The penultimate definition15% Voted for by Free Verse, Kei-Aira.
It seems to me that there are multiple angles from which to dissect this question. The three main categories I can think of, of how far into a meal you are, are time, quantity, and state of the meal. So, you've either made it seem like you were interrupted in the middle of your meal, you've actually eaten half of the mass that makes up your meal, or you are at the approximate middle-part of your meal time. but that only raises more questions. Do you have to have eaten exactly half? Is it possible to finish a meal when it's half eaten, or is a meal only half-eaten if it's never going to be finished because you left in a hurry? do you have to eat from each part of your meal? if so, do drinks count? WHAT ABOUT SECONDS?!
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1/2 isn't necessarily one half1/2 is one of two. What if it means someone ate one of two servings? Or one of two plates? Or the fact that one of two halves of my brain is asleep right now? *ponders*Voted for by Kommandant.
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