If you’re saying “Food a food”, then a closer pairing would be “beverage a beverage”

You can snack on a snack.

I bring up nouns you can verb all the time. It’s a great ice breaker, especially because so many are bodily functions. You can poop a poop. You can pee pee. You can fart a fart.

You can smell a smell, you can run an run, you can cough a cough, you can text text, you can photograph a photograph…

Once I heard the following from two Russian colleagues at works:

- Пить есть, есть нету?
- Есть есть, пить нету.

For more than a decade, I’ve been learning the language, for the art and jobs mainly, but that was quite hard to realize at the times…

Breakfast for breakfast. Lunch with lunch. Dine on dinner.

Asking the real questions

Etymology is actually interesting if you really want to know answers like this (well, sort of answers anyhow).

Is “feed on food” close enough?