So… a cake?
This is a “at what point does a knife become a sword” type of thing isn’t it?
It’s already a modification to the word to describe something smaller (a cake baked in a cup), so going back the other way seems like a redundancy.
Like a giant pygmy hippo.
With your knife/sword example, maybe the best analogy is describing the shortest longsword.
Now I want more examples of a group sized thing adapted to be personal sized then reinterpreted to be group sized again.
I’m coming up blank, but I guess a similar concept would be post-it note easel pads.
I got one! Party bicycles!
wagon (multi person) --> bicycle (single person) --> party bike (multi person)
What? You don’t want to finish your party sized pizza bites?
Thats past the cup size. It’s just a cake
but, cake is meant to be shared,
who cares if a cake has 10000 calories.
that’s like saying supermarket has millions of calories in their shelves so they are unhealthy
At this point thats just a cake. But, if you call it a colossal cupcake you can then charge 10 times the amount.
At that point, isn’t it just a cake wrapped in paper? I don’t think anyone would look at a salad bowl and think, “that is a cup.”
