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Ship of Theseus is a great argument for crediting the original author, even if it's been 100% re-written over time: The ship would have started from one (or more) expert ship builders, while the continual patching could be done by comparatively-unskilled hands.

(Not that this is the case in software, but merely saying that that parable would lend itself to an easy answer as to whether to credit the original or not.)

Also: “S”[1], the novel by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams. Its plot is in hand-written margin notes annotated to a fictional novel of the title “Ship of Theseus”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)

How far are you? Are you reading all of the footnotes? I am so confused about it all but I love it. It has really sparked a curiosity I haven't had in awhile.

Btw, have you heard of the book Ship of Theseus? I bought it for my wife and we haven't jumped into it yet but seems similar in that it's a big puzzle: https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Theseus-J-Abrams/dp/0316201642 (and JJ Abrams if you're a fan)

Well if you want vegetables, you might as well skip this whole ceremony and straight away eat real vegetables. It's not that hard to make a vegetable sandwich.

The problem is you are selling processed vegetable mash with salts, chemical preservatives, conditioners and oil as meat.

It's not meat. It is, what it is. Processed vegetable trash. Sell it that way, and its perfectly fine. People can eat it if they want. Let's not signal this as some healthier alternative.

For more information read: Ship Of Theseus.

Thankfully someone did make an index for the all cards and inserts in the book and where they belong:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1589916-insert-inventory

To my knowledge, the "meta book" is named "S". That's the name on the book cover. OTOH, inside the cover is "Ship of Theseus" which is the made-up book that the made-up meta characters are writing in the margins of. It looks like Amazon now allows you to search for either.