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Loojka Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Need a clarification

Hello, everyone!
I would be grateful if someone could help me work out the meaning of a few things here:

"There is always a lot of news about food scares these days"
(What is the meaning of "scares" here?)

"Think teenagers, think couch potatoes eating pizzas out of the box or munching 99p burgers? Think again because there's a new teenager in town and he's on a chocolate-coated mission! Louis Barnett runs a rapidly-growing chocolate empire which counts among its customers the British supermarket chains Waitrose and Sainsbury's, as well as upmarket department stores in London, New York and as far away as Moscow. All this and Louis is still only eighteen."

This part in bold is a total mystery to me. I expected to see "which counts as...", but I can't understand the sentence as it is, it sort of looks like there's something missing Emotion: thinking Could anyone try to paraphrase it?
  

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If we rearrange that sentence a bit, we get, "... which counts the British supermarket ... " "Counts ...

— Teechr

  • If we rearrange that sentence a bit, we get, "...
  • which counts the British supermarket ...
  • " "Counts ...
  • among" is equivalent to "has ....
  • " Thus, the sentence means: Loojka Louis Barnett runs a rapidly-growing chocolate empire which counts among has as some of its customers the British supermarket chains Waitrose and Sainsbury's, as well as upmarket department stores in London, New York and as far away as Moscow.
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If we rearrange that sentence a bit, we get, "... which counts the British supermarket ... Moscow among its customers."
"Counts ... among" is equivalent to "has .... as some of its."

Thus, the sentence means:
LoojkaLouis Barnett runs a rapidly-growing chocolate empire which counts among has as some of its customers the British supermarket chai
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Ah, I see now. I misinterpreted "count“ here: I thought it meant something like... ummm... when you say, for example, "It counts as a mistake“, but it had a literal meaning here.
Thank you very much. Could you help me with the first sentence?
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LoojkaCould you help me with the first sentence?
Do you think of teenagers as being lazy and eating cheap fast food? Think again! There are some other teenagers who are different, such as Louis Barnett who is running a successful chocolate business.
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I meant the first sentence from the first post, this one:

"There is always a lot of news about food scares these days"
(What is the meaning of "scares" here?)
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Loojka"There is always a lot of news about food scares these days"(What is the meaning of "scares" here?)
Look at meaning 1.1 of "scare" as a noun in the link below.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/scare
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