Poll: How many sandwiches ? (now with a poll!)

How many sandwiches?

  • 1 Sandwich

    Votes: 229 53.0%

  • 2 Sandwiches

    Votes: 144 33.3%

  • We should be banned for letting this go on so long

    Votes: 59 13.7%
  • Total voters
    432
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First we had 0.99r = 1, now apparently four halves of two slices of bread added together in two pairs equals one.

Whatever madness next!

It's two sandwiches!

# The sandwich is a food item typically consisting of two slices of bread between which are laid one or more layers of meat, cheese, or other filling, together with optional condiments, sauces, and other accompaniments. The bread is often lightly buttered or covered in a flavored oil when it is baked, or added in the sandwich to enhance flavor.
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Ergo when you cut it in two you have two sandwiches, just made from smaller pieces of bread.

Should we argue that all sandwiches in the world are infact only one sandwich, because ultimately they all come from the same sludgy factory bucket?
 
taking the first image from google image search as conclusive proof

"Two Sandwiches"
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"One Sandwich"
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Gilly said:
Mine does though ;)
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Is that the forum equivalent of poking me with a stick? :D

That above picture has got me thinking though. If a sandwich has a central bread partition, with filling either side... is that just one giant multi-layered sandwich, or two individual sandwiches sharing a common slice of bread?

Discuss! [Evil laugh]
 
one sandwich,

partition layers dont count in the calculations for quantity of sandwiches,

for example two triple decker sandwiches would be two sarnies, not four sharing two common layers of bread.

e.g. this is one sandwich

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But if three slices of bread in a triple decker equals 1 sandwich then the negates the argument above about sandwiches and the word slice :)

Belmit said:
Is that the forum equivalent of poking me with a stick? :D
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:D

Where's that gif with the smilie poking the red X :p
 
Cookie-Monster said:
taking the first image from google image search as conclusive proof

"Two Sandwiches"
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But that's absolutely irrelevant to the question at hand.

Anyone who said that wasn't two sandwiches would be absurd because plainly there are two, however that doesn't mean that you can't have two half-sized sandwiches from one full-size sandwich.

Two smaller pieces yes, but they are no longer slices so the quoted definition doesn't hold.
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But they're slices of slices ;)
 
So if you have a piece of bread and another and stick em together thats one sandwich.

Yet if you toast them both and stick them together that's two pieces of toast

:D :D :D
 
Matallica said:
A man is making his lunch before he goes to work. He gets out two slices of bread, butters them both and sticks a filling in between. He then cuts the thing in half. How many sandwiches are there?
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Definitively ONE. Nowhere does it categorically state the sandwich was cut, just "the thing", which, as it's in a seperate sentence doesn't necessarily apply to the sandwich ;)
 
Gilly said:
Ah, but if you're brought 3 triangles then you've only 3/4s of what you're saying constitutes a single sandwich, so how can it be one sandwich when it doesn't add up to the whole?

Its all about perspective. And 1 being the wrong answer ;)
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Fair enough, so these weirdo cafe's that serve a sarnie in 3 triangles simply don't server a full sandwich, merely 3/4 of one and are ripping you off :p

About the only place I do buy sandwiches from is Greggs, and you get 1 sandwich cut into 2 triangles. I'm not buying 2 sarnies though, just the one. If I requested a receipt It'd only show 1 sandwich. :)
 
Trojan said:
Fair enough, so these weirdo cafe's that serve a sarnie in 3 triangles simply don't server a full sandwich, merely 3/4 of one and are ripping you off :p

About the only place I do buy sandwiches from is Greggs, and you get 1 sandwich cut into 2 triangles. I'm not buying 2 sarnies though, just the one. If I requested a receipt It'd only show 1 sandwich. :)
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Ahhh but becuase it is cut it is no longer 1 sandwhich, it becomes two.

I'm sure this has been said before but I dont care, its the way I see it, in the morning I get two slices of bread, cut them in half.

Someone at work would ask, whats in your sandwhichES, if I didn't cut them in half, he would ask whats in your sandwhich.

if you were to cut it into 8, it would be 8 sandwhiches, doesn't matter how small they are or what you started off with.
 
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RSH said:
Ahhh but becuase it is cut it is no longer 1 sandwhich, it becomes two.
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I disagree entirely :)

RSH said:
if you were to cut it into 8, it would be 8 sandwhiches, doesn't matter how small they are or what you started off with.
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If I cut a cake into 8 would I suddenly have 8 cakes? No, I would have 8 portions of 1 cake. The same applies to sandwiches, you'd have 8 portions of 1 sandwich.
 
Whitewater said:
It is one sandwich cut in half, it's one sandwich, two halves of one sandwich. Not two sandwiches. They made a whole sandwich and cut it in half, the two halves are genetically part of the same one sandwich.
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At the end of the day, its the same argument as..... half full/half empty.

its just personal perception.
 
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