You drink a drink and you eat an eat. Like in the show Good Eats.

I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as "drinks" and the language adapted.

A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, "eats". So you can " eat an eat"

Hah random hungary facts go: Hungarian is an agglutinative language which means we form much more of our active grammar with affixes than english for example. This means you can sorta just glue stuff together. "Inni innivalót": to drink a drink; "enni ennivalót": to eat food. But this also means you can for example form something like: "elintézni az elintéznivalót" which means "to deal with the thing that has to be dealt with". These are all nouns formed from verbs but you can also do the opposite by forming a verb from a noun "titkot titkol: hides a secret"(lit.: secrets a secret). Thank you for reading another of my linguistic rants 👍

Pathetic. In german(y) you can essen Essen in Essen.

If you're saying "Food a food", then a closer pairing would be "beverage a beverage"

You can quaff a drink instead.

In arabic they say to food food.

In norwegian we say to butter butter.

But you can feed food.

Sweetmeat is candy but sweetbread is offal meat, discuss!

You can snack on a snack.

Once I heard the following from two Russian colleagues at works:

- Пить есть, есть нету?
- Есть есть, пить нету.

For more than a decade, I've been learning the language, for the art and jobs mainly, but that was quite hard to realize at the times...

Asking the real questions

I bring up nouns you can verb all the time. It's a great ice breaker, especially because so many are bodily functions. You can poop a poop. You can pee pee. You can fart a fart.

You can smell a smell, you can run an run, you can cough a cough, you can text text, you can photograph a photograph...

Breakfast for breakfast. Lunch with lunch. Dine on dinner.

Etymology is actually interesting if you really want to know answers like this (well, sort of answers anyhow).

You can scran some scran (food)

Is this dog snoop or is this snoop dog?

You could food a food it's just not trendy. I am going to go food later.

Gerti gėrima Valgyti valgį.

Is "feed on food" close enough?

We don't use the word "comestible" enough.

Eat an eats?

Is that not just cooking?