A challenge a friend and I came up with to entertain ourselves, but found a little too taxing:
Find 5 single word foods (i.e. comestibles or dishes) whose letters can be reshuffled to give another single word food.
We managed to find two:
LEMON <--> MELON
PASTA <--> TAPAS
It seems somewhat nontrivial to find any more! Another that was thought of was MASH <--> HAMS, but we didn't really count it due to the unnatural pluralisation of ham (whereas tapas is naturally a plural in the English vernacular). One more example of a disallowed solution is SCONE <--> CONES, due to the vagueness of cones (and again, a pluralisation - but chiefly the former).
Any ideas? Thanks
Edit: A few people are including beverages - my intention was to exclude these from the 'food' world.
Answer
Here are three pretty decent ones to take you up to five:
SKATE (a kind of fish) and STEAK.
COLLOPS (= slices of meat, usually found in plural) and SCOLLOP (a less common but acceptable spelling of SCALLOP).
RAPE (the root of the turnip; also another related plant from which cooking oil is made) and PEAR.
These are pushing it a bit:
CHILI (hot pepper or a dish made therefrom, though CHILLI is a better spelling) and LICHI (an unusual spelling of LYCHEE or LITCHI, an aromatic Chinese fruit).
MARG (short for MARGARINE) and GRAM (as in gram flour, used for making papadums and the like).
And I think these are clearly impermissible:
EDAM (a Dutch cheese) and MEAD (an alcoholic drink rather than a food).
GRAIN (wheat, barley, oats, etc.) and GARNI (as in BOUQUET GARNI, but I don't think anyone uses that abbreviation).
DOSA (a kind of Indian bread) and SODA (a drink, or a kind of bread -- but that's definitely called SODA BREAD, not just SODA).
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