Given that ribose is a carb inside larger non-carb structures such as RNA, it makes our genetic code, and us humans as a whole, a nacho by the cube rule. I'm ok with it.
The Cube Rule (2017)
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#72I used to go very deep on philosophical discussions about the nature of sandwiches with my friends. I’m still digesting the cube rule, but here’s what we came up with:
Every sandwich has an axis. The axis is through the filling. You can roughly divide all sandwiches based on whether you eat along the axis (what we called axially), or around it (what we called radially).
A burrito is consumed axially, while a crunchwrap supreme is consumed radially.
Hope this is interesting, we’ve found pretty much every sandwich can be classified as radial or axial, which seemed like an achievement.
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#73The idea that we should classify food by shape is clearly erroneous. Our food classifications should be based on method of eating , not by shape! A sandwich is any food that uses a carbohydrate to protect your hands from a messier food, so that you can eat it at a card table without getting your hands dirty (a la the origin myth). Let's go through the things here: Pizza: Yes Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect…
Plain M&Ms: Yes (melts in your mouth, not in your hands !) Cannoli: Yes Jelly donut, cream-filled donut, icing-filled donut: Yes Cupcake: Yes (assuming frosting on top) Fish and chips: Yes (sandwich with fries on the side) Fried okra: Yes Mozzarella sticks: Yes Hot dinner roll or biscuit with butter inside it: Yes Cheese sandwich: No (unless cheese is soft, melted, or too many pieces)
> Plain M&Ms: Yes (melts in your mouth, not in your hands!)
I don't care that the chocolate doesn't melt in the hands, when the candy itself stains!
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#74The idea that we should classify food by shape is clearly erroneous. Our food classifications should be based on method of eating , not by shape! A sandwich is any food that uses a carbohydrate to protect your hands from a messier food, so that you can eat it at a card table without getting your hands dirty (a la the origin myth). Let's go through the things here: Pizza: Yes Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect…
> Pie (whole): No (good luck) NZ/Aussie Pies: Yes These are pies you normally eat by hand. Unlike UK and rest of world pies, they have a strong base and sides so you can hold them easily while eating. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMYS1K6Z_eI
Pie has somewhat different meanings in different countries.
In the US pie refers almost exclusively to a desert, some sweet concoction with pastry uon one side (bottom or top) usually served as a slice of a larger pie.
In the commonwealth (UK et al) pies are more likely to be savory with pastry on all sides. Sometimes baked large, and served as a slice, (pastry on top) but that's not as common.
A "real" pie would be consumed by hand - think cornish pasties, pork pies and so on. Some supermarket / gas station pies would have very thin pastry and need a container for structure, but that's more a quality /cheapness issue than a naming problem.
Of course pie, like sandwich or salad is not a definitive term. Food terms almost never are. Taxation attempts to rigoursly categories but ultimately fails, having to arbitrarily group more precise terms together.
Just about every generic food description has this vagueness leading to this same "argument" over and over. What is "bread"?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> mobius toast This is absurd. If you drop a slice of peanut butter mobius toast on the ground, how does it land? What sort of toaster must I buy to take mobius bread and toast it? I don't like the implications here, and reject all projection-based arguments. Too dangerous.
Somewhere deep underground, in a high-tech laboratory, a group of scientists lean over a slice of toast levitating in some Contact-esque structure... "Dr Gibbons! The zero-point readings are off the scale! We've done it!" The toast briefly flickers into a pizza, then a burrito, then back to being a piece of toast. His brows furrow. "No. This can't be. Shut it down! Delete the files! No one can ever learn of this!"
Startup idea: Toastamak.
Breads contained by magnetic field and toasted by high energy plasma.
We'll ship the breads with QR-code DRM of course. Subscription model.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care a whit what the US court system considers a sandwich.
Is there a particular court system you prefer? Perhaps Ireland, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-ru... , if Subway bread too sugary to be bread maybe then a Subway sandwich is a form of cake. I wonder if 'Is it Cake?' will address this important question.
Well, as you know, all food is either a cake or a pie. So that settles that problem.
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#77Well, I for a long time working on idea, to register AI algorithms as NFTs, which will make legally valid decisions on such questions, so human fuzziness will not affect life.
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#78The idea that we should classify food by shape is clearly erroneous. Our food classifications should be based on method of eating , not by shape! A sandwich is any food that uses a carbohydrate to protect your hands from a messier food, so that you can eat it at a card table without getting your hands dirty (a la the origin myth). Let's go through the things here: Pizza: Yes Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect…
A lot of stuff uses carbs like this without being eaten like a sandwich.
Cream filled Donuts: Yes
Chips and Dip: Yes
Ice cream cone: Yes
Chicken Nuggets/Tenders: Yes (Depends on Breading)
Fried Shrimp: No (If using tail.)
Though it’s a little ambiguous, you can eat a properly prepared soup in bread bowl but most don’t.
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#79It is unnacceptable that what is preached as a universal food categorization system doesn't even attempt to categorize rice.
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#80The idea that we should classify food by shape is clearly erroneous. Our food classifications should be based on method of eating , not by shape! A sandwich is any food that uses a carbohydrate to protect your hands from a messier food, so that you can eat it at a card table without getting your hands dirty (a la the origin myth). Let's go through the things here: Pizza: Yes Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect…
> Sushi: Mostly no (the carbs don't protect you from the insides, the seaweed does)
If you wrap seaweed around a sandwich, is it no longer a sandwich?