 Any supposed count noun can have mass instances, and vice versa. For example, employing something like the ‘Universal Grinder’ idea of Pelletier (1979, pp. 5–6) we can imagine any putative count-item C as being ground up so that there is ‘C all over the floor.’ The quoted passage above from Sweeney Todd is an example of how count-terms for kinds of people are easily transformed into mass terms to refer to the stuffs in (or kinds of) meat-pies served to the unwittingly cannibalistic customers. The Universal Grinder idea relies more on the ease with which we can switch from +COUNT to +MASS than it does on any actual grinding (cf. Chierchia 2010 and 2021, Rothstein 2010 p. 390–4). We can refer to any individual (be it ground or whole) in a ‘massy’ way. Think of how Mark’s spouse might think, ‘there’s a lot more Mark now after the quarantine’ if he gained a lot of weight. These instances of ‘grinding’, which may seem peculiar or violent, have been argued to be merely “realizations of a regular polysemy” (Kiss et al 2021b, 379).