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The Cube Rule (2017)

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Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by devin »

nostoc wrote: post #80
lalaithion wrote: post #4

The 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?

Pay no mind to this poster. Cube rule dictates seaweed-wrapped sandwiches are sushi. This is obvious.

Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by devin »

Prediction: this thread will contain a thousand onanistic replies which trend toward nihilism. Embrace the cube rule. You need not spend cycles debating the true nature of a taco. Give thanks.

Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by thaumasiotes »

lalaithion wrote: post #4

The 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…

> Enchilada: No (the one pictured has cheese and sauce on the outside)

Good luck finding an enchilada without sauce on the outside.

Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by parksy »

na85 wrote: post #75
parksy wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Are you tired of waking up late? Rushing out the door without breakfast, again? Overdue for your fondue? Then you need Toastamak! Our patented quasispace manifold uses space age technology to fetch hot, fresh toast and toastlike products from the interdimensional superposition of spacetime itself. Need it yesterday? No problem! Toastamak's causality-preserving temporal inversion matrix will make ruined dinner parties a thing of the past. Literally!"

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Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

oneplane wrote: post #52
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm, maybe, I think it must be a mistake though, the inside of just about everything is messier than the outside.

I'd say the inside of a rock is exactly as messy as the outside, but we can't eat rocks so that might be out of scope.

yeah but the inside of a human is messier, which indicates that a human wearing this stuff https://materialdistrict.com/article/wheat-straw-based-cloth... is a sandwich.

Re: The Cube Rule (2017)

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Post by Groxx »

I personally combine toast/taco/bowl because the boundaries are far too vague, they're essentially the same thing. Flatten a taco, and now it's a toast? Nonsense! It was toast all along! Same with that soggy-bottomed quiche that can't support itself or its family!

And then I add "nacho" as its own top-tier category instead of some weird optional DLC at the end, i.e. "bread surrounded by non-bread". So you have calzones and anti-calzones. Croutons in salads count as soup / nacho / anti-calzones, as do (non-filled) noodles of effectively all kinds - they're all bread with stuff on the outside.

Which brings us to the logical conclusion that the world is a nacho.

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