Other way around actually and blame the French for it.
If you look at the German word “trinken” and “Getränk” one means to drink and the other a drink, but they clearly evolved from each other. The word for food “essen” means both food and to eat.
Honestly a lot of English words around food and animals split from other Germanic languages because of French
I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as “drinks” and the language adapted.
A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, “eats”. So you can " eat an eat"
Other way around actually and blame the French for it.
If you look at the German word “trinken” and “Getränk” one means to drink and the other a drink, but they clearly evolved from each other. The word for food “essen” means both food and to eat.
Honestly a lot of English words around food and animals split from other Germanic languages because of French
Those were some good eats.