Intruding House of Courts
3 July 2000
Anderson J
In considering what constitutes a made lunch we must
first consider the various states that a lunch could take.
The statement put forward by Earnshaw J and supported
by the High Court of Daylite:
"Now there are two possible things your lunch can be.
And if it isn't bought, then it's made." indicates two possible states.
However this supposition was found to be in error by
Choo LJ, who put forward a third state that a lunch my
hold which she labelled the 'bought, made lunch'. This
category refers mainly to those lunches obtained from
institutions such as a self-serve sandwich bar, where
the sandwich is 'made' by the consumer and also paid
for by that very same consumer.However Choo LJ went on to give the example of a
bottle of orange juice as something that does not fall
into any of the above categories and therefore doesnot constitute a lunch.
But Chung J had previously argued that orange juice
may be considered a lunch, in stating that orange
juice is an orange cut into very very tiny pieces. She
claimed that in consuming orange juice "I [Chung J] am
still eating the equivalent of an orange." But wait,
my learned non-colleague, you are not eating the
equivalent of an orange, you are drinking it! I
believe that the difference between eating and
drinking is a vital component of the definition of a
lunch (a definition to be stated later in thisconcourse).
I shall not yet confirm or deny that 'made', 'bought'
and 'bought, made' are three states of lunch, we mustexplore further.
In order to explore further and ultimately to define
the states of which a lunch may take, we must first
make the fairly safe assumption that a 'made lunch' is
a valid description of a lunch, i.e. that a 'made
lunch' may exist. We can therefore go on to assume
that 'made' refers to one or more of the of theaffore-mentioned 'lunch states'.
We must now consider whether there exist any lunch
states that are not refered to by made. Hon J put'sforward a very valid point:
"if God made everything, then it's hard to exclude
lunches from that 'everything' list doesn't it??Hence,
anything I bring is a 'made' lunch."
This would seem to be a very simple and easy solution
to our problem, however, I fear that the definition of
'made' slightly differs when used in the context of a
'made lunch' as opposed to how it is usually used. We
must remember to always keep things in their context,
especially bible verses (Chung J should note).
I shall proceed to put forward my own definition of a'made lunch'.
note: numbering denotes seperate parts of a single
difinition, it does not denote alternate definitions as is the standard
'made lunch', a definition:
- it is a lunch, i.e. 'made lunch' is a
subset of 'lunch'. (see 'lunch' below)
- it is made up of one or more food items
that have been manipulated prior to
consumption to an adequate extent by the
consumer or a person who had the specific
consumer in mind during manipulation and
proceeded to hand on the lunch to the
specified consumer free of charge.
(see 'manipulation to adequate extent')
'lunch', a definition:
- it is edible.
- there is a consumer such that the original
intents of the consumer were to consume
(specifically eat) the lunch at approximately noon.
- it is solid in entirety or in part
manipulation to an adequate extent:
I am unable to give a pricise definition of this, but
I shall attempt to give a good idea of what I mean byusing examples.
I shall first give examples of what, in itself, is
*not* considered adequate as manipulation for the'made lunch' definition:
- transporting the lunch in a container,-opening a package holding the lunch,
- chopping/breaking the lunch into smaller pieces,
- heating/cooling the lunch as a whole,-pealing skin off lunch items
I shall now give examples of what, is considered
adequate as manipulation for the 'made lunch'definition:
- changing the food items such that they can be given
totally different names to those they originally had,
- mixing food items together such that they cannot beeasily seperated,
- applying one food item to another such that it cannotbe easily removed,
- baking items such that there is a change in size,shape, or texture,
- de-packaging food items that have been packaged
seperately and putting them together to form one fooditem
following are some specific examples of 'made' and'not made' lunches.
- Orange juice is not a made lunch as it has no solidpart.
- a commercial fruit salad eaten out of the tin/pot/cup
is not a made lunch as it has only been opened up.
- a home made fruit salad with fruit juice is a made
lunch as the fruit and the fruit juice have been mixed
together such that they are not easy to seperate.
- bits of fruit thrown together without juice is not
really a fruit salad and is not a made lunch since the
pieces of fruit can be asily seperated.
- a cornthin sandwich is not a made lunch since the
individual cornthins were not originally packaged
seperately, and they can be easily sepreated.
- a buttered cornthin sandwich is a made lunch since
butter has been applied to cornthin such that itcannot be easily removed.
- a cheese sandwich w/o butter is a made lunch since the
cheese and bread, originally seperate food items from
seperate packages, have been placed together to make asingle food item.
Having answered the question in full of "what
constitutes a 'made' lunch" I have reached the
conclusion of my argument, even though I may have left
unanswerd some of the questions that I posed myself in
attempting to answer the original question.
So having solved the world's problems, or at least one
of them, I think I may go to bed.
The Intruding House of Courts rests its case.
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