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Poll: How many sandwiches ? (now with a poll!)
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I'm not crazy enough to read a 9 page thread on sandwiches, but here's my analysis:
A sandwich is not of a fixed, standard size. If you take a pizza, for example. I'll go with the standard perception of a pizza here; it has to be round to be classified as a pizza. If you cut it in two, you don't have two pizzas, you have one cut in two. That's because the pizza has to be 100% round.
However, as sandwiches are not of a standard size, you can divide them and create more sandwiches. That's because it doesn't lose any of the attributes that define it as a sandwich when it's cut
A sandwich is not of a fixed, standard size. If you take a pizza, for example. I'll go with the standard perception of a pizza here; it has to be round to be classified as a pizza. If you cut it in two, you don't have two pizzas, you have one cut in two. That's because the pizza has to be 100% round.
However, as sandwiches are not of a standard size, you can divide them and create more sandwiches. That's because it doesn't lose any of the attributes that define it as a sandwich when it's cut
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Ok, so you run and buy a 10 foot long party sub. It's sliced in 50 pieces. How many party subs did you buy?Al Vallario said:However, as sandwiches are not of a standard size, you can divide them and create more sandwiches. That's because it doesn't lose any of the attributes that define it as a sandwich when it's cut
Then you serve yourself a slice. Did you just eat a whole sub sandwich?
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Obviously there are exceptions to the rule when you come about sandwich types that have certain attributes (such as a sub)Raist said:
Al Vallario said:However, as sandwiches are not of a standard size, you can divide them and create more sandwiches. That's because it doesn't lose any of the attributes that define it as a sandwich when it's cut
No no no. The 'shape' that defines the sandwich is the 'frame' the crust makes. Therefore; cut it in two - you have two halves of a sandwich.
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Oh goodness me, I surrender! I SURRENDER!Scam said:
Edit: Though, are you saying that a sandwich loses it's sandwich status with the crust?
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Although I'm on the 1 sandwich side, I'm trying to think of an example of where this logic wouldn't hold true. And, by golly, I can't!Scam said:
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When you cut it into four pieces it ceases to be a standard Big Mac. So no, you couldn't tell anybody that you'd just had four Big Macs.Raist said:
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Says who?Scam said:
Spot on Al Vallario Same thing with a piece of paper or a rug (as in my previous post). There are no rules that define the size of a 'whole' rug.
Scam - what if the crusts are cut off? No frame, but still a whole round of bread.. I take it you would still class that as a whole sandwich, so what about one of those sandwiches cut in half? No crusts on either to define a frame.
Same thing with a piece of paper or a rug (as in my previous post). There are no rules that define the size of a 'whole' rug. Scam - what if the crusts are cut off? No frame, but still a whole round of bread.. I take it you would still class that as a whole sandwich, so what about one of those sandwiches cut in half? No crusts on either to define a frame.
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Surely a piece of rug cut 6" x 3" cannot be classified as a rug anymore.Amoeba said:Spot on Al Vallario
edit: unless you're playing with Barbie dolls.
By that, you are in agreement. Because certainly the crusts that were cut off cannot qualify as sandwiches themselves, even if a little peanut butter and jelly remained between.Amoeba said:Scam - what if the crusts are cut off? No frame, but still a whole round of bread.. I take it you would still class that as a whole sandwich, so what about one of those sandwiches cut in half? No crusts on either to define a frame.
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The definition of a rug is "a floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric", likewise the definition of a sandwich is "two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them".Raist said:
No mention of size whatsoever, so a rug cut to 6" x 3" would still be a rug. A pretty ridiculous rug, but a rug nonetheless. The left-over would be a rug, too.
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It's very simple. You're all getting caught up with the regular "slices" of bread, when in fact, you shouldn't.
A sandwich is a filling 'sandwiched' between two "pieces" of bread. If it's got bread on the outside and something eadible on the inside, then it's a sandwich. Ergo two regular slices of bread, with a filling inbetween, cut in half, is two sandwiches.
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A sandwich is a filling 'sandwiched' between two "pieces" of bread. If it's got bread on the outside and something eadible on the inside, then it's a sandwich. Ergo two regular slices of bread, with a filling inbetween, cut in half, is two sandwiches.
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Amoeba said:No crusts on either to define a frame.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet... or in other words, remove the frame from a picture and you haven't redefined it as anything else; the two halves still came from the same slice and therefore you've cut one sandwich in half.
Crusts are too small to be sandwiches - just as really tall thin bread would be if you could buy it in the shops
And why can't a 6" x 3" rug be classed as a rug? What else has it become? Assuming there are no tassles on the ends which would obviously be missing if they were cut off, then surely the cut up rug is just as ruggy as a big rug? Albeit a bit smaller..
And why can't a 6" x 3" rug be classed as a rug? What else has it become? Assuming there are no tassles on the ends which would obviously be missing if they were cut off, then surely the cut up rug is just as ruggy as a big rug? Albeit a bit smaller..
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If I went into a shop and asked for two sandwiches, and the vendor proceeded to take one, slice it in half then charge me for two, I'd be rightfully annoyed. They would not have given me two sandwiches, instead two halves of a whole.
I can see the argument for the little triangles you get at buffets. We don't know how they started life (were they made from two slices[1] of bread and chopped into quarters? Or were they assembled from little pieces of bread? We'll never know). I ask you this though: what about the crusts that have been removed? Are they little sandwiches in their own right?
I conclude that this is a silly argument which has made me hungry.
[1] All this talk of 'rounds' of bread is nonsense. You wouldn't say "it's the best thing since rounded bread" would you? No. So stop it.
I can see the argument for the little triangles you get at buffets. We don't know how they started life (were they made from two slices[1] of bread and chopped into quarters? Or were they assembled from little pieces of bread? We'll never know). I ask you this though: what about the crusts that have been removed? Are they little sandwiches in their own right?
I conclude that this is a silly argument which has made me hungry.
[1] All this talk of 'rounds' of bread is nonsense. You wouldn't say "it's the best thing since rounded bread" would you? No. So stop it.
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But that's the point. It's not really a whole, it's merely a perceived whole. You'd be annoyed because you'd be getting two halves of what the shop marketed as sandwiches, but if you went into another shop where it was clearly stated that their sandwiches were made from pieces of bread half the size of the first shop, and you ordered two of their sandwiches, would you not have two sandwiches?xyphic said:
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So how many people have scarfed down a sammy as a result of this thread? If any...
Post your sammy pics!
Post your sammy pics!
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