<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 17:20 +0000, Paul Allen wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>"Take home" and "take away" share an important property: "not for consumption on</div><div>the premises." Whether you take the stuff home or take it off the premises and</div><div>consume it nearby, you are not consuming it on the premises.</div><div><br></div><div>Try a related situation: a chip shop near me. Some chip shops are takeaway</div><div>only. This one happens to have seats and tables, so it gets tagged as a</div><div>cafe with take_away=yes. Some people who buy fish and chips to take away</div><div>go across the road, sit on one of the two benches there, and eat them. Others</div><div>take their fish and chips all the way home. Taking the fish and chips home</div><div>is one of the subsets of things you can do if you take the fish and chips away.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The big difference between the take away and take home is the packaging quantities.</div><div><br></div><div>A fish and chip shop, as do most other takeaways) sells a meal that is ready to eat (1).</div><div><br></div><div>A take away ice-cream is again ready to eat, it is a cornet/tub/or a single lolly.</div><div><br></div><div>Ice cream to take home, as sold in supermarkets, is in large packs, intended to be dispensed from your home freezer.</div><div><br></div><div>Whilst a group could split a pack of lollys or cornetos and sit on the bench over the road, they are unlikely to do that with a 5 litre tub of ice-cream.</div><div><br></div><div>Phil (trigpoint)</div><div><br></div><div>1. I doubt many Indian takeaways are eaten on the bench outside.</div></body></html>