All of these foods – Alphabet Soup, Alpha-Bits Cereal – are simply a way of reminding us of the absolute randomness of life. It humanizes us, and it goes to show just how little control any of us has.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that your alphabet soup tonight spelled out “FUCK YOU” – no human involvement, just the random arrangement of letters in a chaotic bowl of soup.
Or imagine you were pouring your cereal and the letters just sort of fell in the pattern “GOOD DAY” – would that be a positive or a negative?
I think that we should look at linguisti-foods as a way of embracing the chaos in our lives.
(side question: If I emptied a million boxes of Alphabits into a million bowls of milk, would I eventually get them to spell the text of the bible?)