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

[Otacon]

Bite my shiny metal ass.


/implodes

 

[Cybermyk]

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!

You take an apple, you cut it in two. Do you have two apples?

 

[Tru]

Go Bender

 

[basmic]

How to make A sandwich, using bread, butter and filling:

1. Take two slices of bread straight from the loaf of extra thick bread, and flip one slice of bread over. So when you flip the slice back on to the filling, it is a perfect shape - and yes, I do do this!
2. Butter each slice of bread, with desired amount of butter
3. If need be, prepare the filling and place on to one of the slices of buttered bread
4. Flip the other slice of bread onto the filling, and press slightly to ensure mnimal loss of filling while you enjoy the sandwich

The above gives you ONE sandwich.

The second you cut the sandwich into halves or quarter, each slice becomes just that: a quarter or a half of the original sandwich.

Now which part of that didn't you fools understand? The part where you half it, or the bit where the extremely simple maths took place?

 

[Gilly]

Now which part of that didn't you numb skulls understand?

Careful. Don't want you getting banned. Again.

The all important line is:

The second you cut the sandwich into halves or quarter, each slice becomes just that: a quarter or a half of the original sandwich.

No-one is arguing that.

 

[Rich_L]

The second you cut the sandwich into halves or quarter, each slice becomes just that: a quarter or a half of the original sandwich.

Yes - referred to individually as sandwiches.

You take an apple, you cut it in two. Do you have two apples?

Your point being? We aren't talking about apples, but sandwiches

 

[Whitewater]

I kind of accidentally stole this from somewhere else

My friend and I were mulling over a problem earlier, which we disagreed on. I thought that this would be the perfect place to stick a poll up to get a final answer, so here goes.

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?

How many you reckon 1 or 2

Id say 1

Is the answer actually 42 and some mice are laughing at us?

 

[danza]

ONE sandwich. TWO halves for the win!!!!

 

[basmic]

Careful. Don't want you getting banned. Again.

For what exactly? For making something crystal clear to people who are incapable of understanding?

Yes - referred to individually as sandwiches.

Yes, individual quarters or halves (corrected ). Not a whole sandwich.

 

[Cybermyk]

Your point being? We aren't talking about apples, but sandwiches

If D.P. can talk about water, I can talk about apples

 

[Rich_L]

All that serves to show is that some words can be logically prefixed by half/quarter etc and others can't - my point being that due to the definition of a sandwich, sandwich falls into the latter

Yes, individual quarters or slices. Not a whole sandwich.

Ooeer so you'd call it a slice of sandwich? Interesting.....

 

[Mr_L]

For what exactly? For making something crystal clear to people who are incapable of understanding? Yes, individual quarters or slices. Not a whole sandwich.

TBH its just easier to let people think its 2 sandwiches. Even if they are wrong.

Lets just hope this thread doesn't get cut in half then we'd have 2 of them and so on and so on and so on and so on...

...until the entire forum was just sandwich threads.

 

[solitude]

Right

The OED defines a sandwich as, "two or more slices of bread with filling; layered cake with jam, cream etc."

It doesn't say half slices, or one slice.

So it's 1

End of

 

[Rich_L]

And what does it say for a 'slice'?

 

[Mr_L]

Slice:
# a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"
# piece: a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
# cut: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
# slit: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
# a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing"
# hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
# a thin flat piece cut off of some object
# cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please"
# a spatula for spreading paint or ink
# hit a ball so that it causes a backspin

 

[solitude]

slice, "a thin flat piece or wedge cut from something"

so not altered after cut from loaf

 

[Rich_L]

And using the relevant example given there:

# piece: a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"

Where in either of those descriptions does it refer to either

a) a slice ONLY being from the original object and any subsequent slices being referred to as half/quarter/third slices? You slice bread and end up with a slice. You slice the slice and end up with 2 slices, not 2 half-slices...duh

or

b) where does it define the slices of bread used in a sandwich as having to have come from the loaf in one slice.

Case closed. bbq

slice, "a thin flat piece or wedge cut from something"

so not altered after cut from loaf

Er how did you get that from the definition? Cut from something....like another slice perhaps?

 

[basmic]

Ooeer so you'd call it a slice of sandwich? Interesting.....

Got my typo there!

Should have been: Yes, individual quarters or halves. Not a whole sandwich.

 

[solitude]

if you cut the slice, you have half of the orginal slice, not a slice as it came indirectly from the loaf

And since a "slice" is a prerequisite for a sandwich, by OED definition it can't be a sandwich

 

[Rich_L]

So if I cut a loaf of bread in half, then cut a slice off one of the halves, that isn't a slice of bread?

So basically you're saying you can't slice a slice? Can't you slice it in two?