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If you’re in a food desert then how did you build up all that arterial plaque?
Bro, in a food desert – it's all fast-food joints and corner stores. Arteries are getting clogged up with all those fries and sodas.
But that’s not a desert tho… deserts are barren of all sustenance it just healthy sustenance
But okay
You just don't understand the term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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But...that is the common definition of "food desert."
"A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food."
I realize the article has issues, but the definition has sources cited for its common usage. If you don't like the definition, fine, but it's a definite term for a defined phenomenon. You don't get to pretend the phenomenon doesn't exist because the term isn't perfect...
Maybe English isn't their first language. I never heard of the phrase before. TIL.
Even a real desert isn't completely barren.
Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert
Fast food. Grocery store options are limited but fast food places are plentiful
I guess I’ve just not heard of the term ‘food desert’ used to describe a lack of healthy food and not….. a lack of food period.
Fast food is food too, just not good food. Semantics ig
you probably have but maybe just didn't realise it, since that's what it means:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
User name checks out
Close enough?
I wonder what the accepted term is for a place without any food.
Food vacuum maybe?