YOU SAID:
Food is an eating thing, can you dig it?
INTO JAPANESE
食べ物は食べ物です、それを掘ることができますか?
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Food is food, can you dig it?
INTO JAPANESE
食べ物は食べ物なのですか?
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Is food food?
INTO JAPANESE
食べ物は食べ物ですか?
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Is food food?
That didn't even make that much sense in English.