Frozen Food Unthawed Live Aquaria

[IKD]

While unthawed would technically mean frozen (but who says unthawed to mean frozen anyway), but the two are used interchangeable to mean thawed in regional pockets all over the place. It's not common where I am (Milwaukee), though I understand Wisconsin (or maybe the midwest in general) is one of the places it's commonly heard.

FWIW, the actual, dictionary definition of "unthaw" is "thaw" and that goes back hundreds of years, it's not like they adjusted the dictionary to reflect a recent trend (like how literally now literally means figuratively).

Definition of UNTHAW

thaw… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Nice! That said, Merriam Webster goes by usage more than proper definition and acknowledges we are using it wrong.

NOTE: Although unthaw as a synonym of thaw is sometimes cited as an illogical error, it has persisted in occasional use for more than four centuries.

When did Merriam move away from proper definition to only documenting how it’s used? Probably in the last decade when they started adding words like bromance

 

[piranhaman00]

I think he’s poking at ‘unthawed’ vs ‘thawed’. Your order was thawed on arrival which others assumed that’s what you meant.

While unthawed would technically mean frozen (but who says unthawed to mean frozen anyway), but the two are used interchangeable to mean thawed in regional pockets all over the place. It's not common where I am (Milwaukee), though I understand Wisconsin (or maybe the midwest in general) is one of the places it's commonly heard.

FWIW, the actual, dictionary definition of "unthaw" is "thaw" and that goes back hundreds of years, it's not like they adjusted the dictionary to reflect a recent trend (like how literally now literally means figuratively).

Definition of UNTHAW

thaw… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Nice! That said, Merriam Webster goes by usage more than proper definition and acknowledges we are using it wrong.

NOTE: Although unthaw as a synonym of thaw is sometimes cited as an illogical error, it has persisted in occasional use for more than four centuries.

When did Merriam move away from proper definition to only documenting how it’s used? Probably in the last decade when they started adding words like bromance

lol I didn’t understand and now I’m questioning my vocab, you are right the food was thawed when I got it! Thanks for making me think!

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I think he’s poking at ‘unthawed’ vs ‘thawed’. Your order was thawed on arrival which others assumed that’s what you meant.

"SHE" is not poking at anything, just trying to clarify. I'm sorry if I didn't assume the same thing others did.

 

[mfinn]

After receiving thawed orders from LA, I started ordering my frozen food at Bulk Reef Supply. No problem. Dry ice, stryofoam boxes. Shipped the way it should be.

 

[SlugSnorter]

I was stunned by how they shipped fish to me this winter. It was literally the coldest day of the year. I begged them to hold the order. They refused and promised that it would be packed well. The fish arrived in a foam Mylar bag, not even a cooler. Even with heat packs they were 47 degrees. It blows my mind how far Live aquaria has fallen. They really were great back in the day,.

I feel like everyone there got exposed to palytoxin and it melted a cortex or something.

 

[IKD]

"SHE" is not poking at anything, just trying to clarify. I'm sorry if I didn't assume the same thing others did.

I initially read it the same way you did but given the picture in the post, I figured the OP meant thawed and not unthawed. We’ve since seen that Merriam-Webster says it’s ok to use either.
Sorry about the gender mis-identification as well. No offense intended.

 

[piranhaman00]

I got a full refund.
They said they ran out of dry ice