I think it means toast is "basically burnt seed mush"

I'd be curious about the coffee studies compared to how people consume coffee. So many people seem to drink theirs with a lot of cream and sugar.

Burnt rotted seed mush, even! The yeast fermentation step is essentially a controlled spoilage. And the result remains delicious.

I know an acquaintance who refers to bread as raw toast.

And they're both pointless, fallacious (non-)insights. Argument from inflammatory reframing? It doesn't change the facts on the ground. If you like the taste and/or psychoactive effects of coffee, relative to the cost, drink it! The fact that you can call it burnt bean water shouldn't matter to that.

I think you know the answer is "yes".

Steaks are just basically burnt meat.

Ideally they aren't

Knock the horns off and make sure it doesn’t moo was how my grandfather ordered his steak