My position is that it’s a snack and husband tax must be paid. My wife is arguing that it’s a meal or occupies some third food space and it’s entirely hers. Who’s right, court of Lemmy?

    • Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world
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      Im with you there.

      If sweet food is consumed at the end of a dinner/lunch, it’s a dessert to me.

      If sweet food is consumed on its own, its a snack to me.

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    I’ll never forget the my second grade teacher, Mrs Tilley, taught us the mnemonic “you only want one desert and two desserts.”

    Thanks, ma’am. It serves me still.

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    Dessert falls under “rule of fork”.

    In that if you try to take any I will stab you with one.

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    My advice is not let the corporate media divide you on superficial concepts between snacks and meals. Reclaim your freedoms. Feed cats more

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    Its a course served at the end of a meal, typically sweet. If you’re eating outside of that context it’s a snack or a meal depending on how large it is and your specific eating schedule. I think she is probably right that its hers but also maybe wrong if she won’t share a small taste of it with you. Or I would feel wrong not letting my wife at least taste my dessert if she wanted some but I was unwilling to share.

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    Quantity, exclusivity, and order of consumption are the determining factors.

    A piece of candy after a meal is a treat.

    Eating an entire chocolate cake and nothing else is a meal.

    Eating a handful of candy is a snack, but could be part of a meal if consumed during, or dessert if consumed after a meal.

    Eating a slice of cake and a steak, going back and forth, is a meal that has cake as a portion which could be considered dessert and may indicate mental health issues.

    Eating a slice of cake after steak and potatoes is dessert.

    Partners have no entitlement to one another’s food being consumed, unless there is no more of it available after. If food is offered in advance and declined, they have no entitlement to it when the food is later present.

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    I agree with others in that it’s a course and part of a meal.

    But when eaten alone, snacks are snacks or meals according to size. If it’s something small that won’t even fill a third of your appetite, in my books, that’s a snack. And in my books, precisely because of scarcity reasons you have less leveraging power to demand tax on a snack.

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    A drug.

    Whether it’s an important medicine for health and wellbeing or a hard recreational drug can depend greatly on the context.