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0Please tell me why the underlined vegetables are written differently in that to me, most of them are variable nouns. Here in a menu sheet, a menu item can be explained in their 'abstract and boundless' form because we are not using to mention any specific instances or types of it but rather referring to it generally in its 'abstract and boundless' form, in my opinion. But how come some variable nouns are in their abstact and boundless forms and some are not when all (as they seem) of them are variable in nature?    02br02br00CALIFORNIA GARDEN  02br02br01u00marinated zucchini, squash, eggplant & portabella mushrooms, cucumbers, roasted red peppers, sprouts, mixed greens, garlic aioli 02u00& honey mustard02br02br00Would you say most of vegetables and fruit (fruits??) are variable nouns? Are there any exceptions?0-

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0What is a 'variable noun'? A countable noun?02br
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00The choice between countable and uncountable forms once the fruit, vegetable, flesh or fowl becomes food or a meal is very much up to the mind of the speaker, in contradistinction to the primarily countable form they take as discrete living beings in garden or farmyard.02br
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00I can just as easily imagine the maitre d' producing the text of California Garden as:02br
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01i00marinated01b00 zucchinis02b00, squash, 01b00eggplants02b00& portabella mushrooms, 01b00cucumber02b00, roasted red01b00 pepper02b00, sprouts, mixed greens, 02i00etc.02br
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01i00Squash, mushrooms, sprouts02i00 and01i00 greens02i00 seem more resistant to change. A plural of 01i00squash02i00 is 01i00squash02i00; 01i00greens02i00 has no singular; 01i00mushrooms 02i00and01i00 sprouts02i00 are relatively small entities which usually appear reasonably whole to us in most dishes.0-

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