I love that steak is now a form of salad. It's just sensible really.
The Cube Rule (2017)
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Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you rule out anything eaten with a fork, you immediately rule out open-faced sandwiches, which as far as I know, are universally referred to as open-faced sandwiches. You can pry my open-faced tuna melt on rye out of my cold dead hands. If you commit yourself to the carbohydrate as a protector from mess, is a messy sandwich still a sandwich? What about cucumber sandwiches (not messy on the inside)? You say a pie i…
> open-faced sandwiches saying an open faced sandwich is a sandwich is like saying pluto is a planet because it is a dwarf planet- wrong side of history bucko, it ceases to be a sandwich if it is to be eaten by a fork > if I can comfortably palm the pie and eat it like an Uncrustable, but my wife can't? if you eat something like a sandwich, then it is a sandwich to you, and if it is meant to be eaten like a sandwich,…
The IAU (International Appetizers Union) has ruled that open faced sandwiches are in fact dwarf sandwiches, and are therefore not true sandwiches.
A "giant sandwich" must have enough mass to be nearly spherical due to hydrostatic equilibrium. None have yet been discovered.
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#83The 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…
> Soup bowl: No (I'd love to see you try)
Grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup: Yes
Soup in sourdough bread bowl: Yes (if eaten with hands)
French onion soup: Yes (if bread dipped rather than baked under the cheese)
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#84The 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 sandwich is anything that implements ISandwich
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#85I find the cube rule to be naïve in its ignorance of topological spaces. A sandwich is just a cross section of mobius toast. A wrap is just toast projected onto a cylinder. A calzone is just toast projected onto a sphere. Everything is toast! Why can't people see this! *walks off into the distance muttering obscenities*
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#86Earlier 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.
Hold on, why would the toast have peanut butter on it?
Because peanut butter is the superior toast topping.
Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
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Re: The Cube Rule (2017)
#88The 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…
Thank you for this post, but you are very wrong, and may $DEITY have mercy on your soul.