Can You Munch on Yogurt?

Grant, would you ever say somebody munched donuts or munched on donuts?

No, I think they need to be hard or crunchy for you to munch them.

I do too.

Some donuts are crispy, maybe like an apple fritter, or they have nuts on top, but probably not.

Yeah, I’ve read things where people talk about munched on something soft like that, and it doesn’t strike me as correct.

You munch on chips, you munch on nuts, you munch on apples.

Right.

You know me.

I was so disturbed when somebody was talking about munching on donuts that I went and looked it up.

And apparently a lot of people think otherwise.

So the dictionaries have ensconced this idea that munching could happen even for something that’s not crunchy.

Yes.

Dear dictionaries, how dare you include this meaning that I don’t agree with.

I know.

I’m usually pretty permissive about this kind of thing.

But munch, I don’t know.

Well, we have our own learned experience that comes from living life.

And we develop our ideolex, that’s the language that we own.

That’s right.

You know the spiel, you know the argument for it.

That’s right.

But we are going to run up against the world that disagrees with us pretty much all the time.

And we talk about it here, and you can too.

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