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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Raymond Lin said:
As in 4 pieces of bread, don't apply math to it, apply common sense !
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Thats what I've been doing since the start of the thread :)

There's contents sandwiched between 4 pieces of bread. That means 2 sandwiches.

You guys are getting hung up on their size.
 
I make all my sandwiches from a single 'slice' of bread, cut in half wih filling put between them. Does that mean, for all these years I have not been eating sandwiches?
If they are not sandwiches then what are they?

As mentioned countless time, a slice has no specific area, only a continuous thickness. Therefore cutting 1 slice of bread in half = 2 smalle slcies, each of which is half the area of the original slice, and put togther would form the original slice, but they are still slices of bread by definition.


2 is a number.
2 divide by 2 is still a number, it has not somehow changed type just because it was divided!
 
Gilly said:
Thats what I've been doing since the start of the thread :)

There's contents sandwiched between 4 pieces of bread. That means 2 sandwiches.

You guys are getting hung up on their size.
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We are hanging on the idea that next time when i go into a deli and order a sandwich. I don't get 2 breadcrumps with a knob of cheese and call that a sandwich instead of 2 full slices of bread with fillings in between.

A sandwich is defined by WHOLE slices of bread, not half cut, not quarter cut.

By your definition, you would be ordering 2 sandwiches when you want 1 in a deli.

I can just picture this :D

Gilly "Hi, can i have 2 Sandwiches please"
Deli guy "sure, what fillings would you like?"
Gilly "BBQ Chicken Please"
Deli Guy "what about the 2nd sandwich?"
Gilly "I said BBQ Chicken, please"
Deli guys makes it and says "That'll be £6.00 please"
Gilly "£6 ? the signs says £3"
Deli Guy "You order 2 Sandwiches"
Gilly "Yeah, I did"
Deli guy "Well, here are 2 sandwiches"
Gilly "No, thats 4"
Deli Guy "So now you want 4 ?"
Gilly "No, I want 2"
Deli "Here there are, £6 please"
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Raymond Lin said:
A sandwich is defined by WHOLE slices of bread, not half cut, not quarter cut.
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No, a sandwich is a filling sandwiched between two slices/pieces of bread. What size that bread is, and how it got that way, has no bearing the definition.
 
Gilly said:
Yes it is.

On the one hand you have a plate with 2 sandwiches on that was prepared in the kitchen whilst you sat in the living room.

On the other hand you have a plate with a single sandwich and a knife. You cut this into 2 yourself in the living room.

They are laid next to each other. Both have 2 sandwiches on.

If you can explain the difference here then I'll concede you possibly have a point.
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Hmm.

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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To answer your question:

If you have a sandwich prepared out of your sight in the kitchen and the maker cuts it in half then presents it to you in the living room, it is one sandwich cut in to two halves. Logic would conclude the two halves were once a whole as this is the easiest method of preperation.

If you have a whole sandwich presented on a plate in front of you with a knife and you cut it in half you have one sandwich cut in to two halves.

The only difference is where the crumbs fall.
 
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Ok, so I bring out ONE half of the original sandwich and put it in front of you.

What would you call it? A half-sandwich?

How do you KNOW it's a half sandwich? What if the loaf was 1.5times the normal height and you had cut it into 3 parts, 2 resembling 'half-sandwiches' and one with crusts on only 2 sides?

Exactly - you can't know therefore half-sandwich talk is rubbish.

It is clear that many words CAN be 'divided' without prefixing them with half/quarter etc, D.P. provided an example as have I - why is it so hard to acknowledge that 'sandwich' by virtue of it's definition has the same property?
 
Rich_L said:
Ok, so I bring out ONE half of the original sandwich and put it in front of you.

What would you call it? A half-sandwich?

How do you KNOW it's a half sandwich? What if the loaf was 1.5times the normal height and you had cut it into 3 parts, 2 resembling 'half-sandwiches' and one with crusts on only 2 sides?

Exactly - you can't know therefore half-sandwich talk is rubbish.

It is clear that many words CAN be 'divided' without prefixing them with half/quarter etc, D.P. provided an example as have I - why is it so hard to acknowledge that 'sandwich' by virtue of it's definition has the same property?
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You'd have to assume for the sake of this argument that we are all talking about an average loaf and by that assumption, the slices are normal size too. It's logic that then leads us to conclude a half of anything was once part of a whole.
 
You take 1 large glass of water, you equally divide it between 2 smaller glasses. What are you left with, 2 glasses of water. yes their mass and volume maybe half the original, but they are still 2 glasses of water!
 
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