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[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Um actually,"

The inner core is solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is kinda...solidish-slushy-sorta.

So the earth is like one of those fancy cherry cordials with the 2 fillings?

[–] zepplenzap@lemmy.one 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think a Ferrero Rocher is a good fit. The solid core is the hazelnut, the molten core is the Nutella, the rocky crust is the wafer, and the chocolate and hazelnut coating is the topsoil.

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's great! Ratios are a bit off but we are talking about food, there's no 1:1.

I think the wafer makes sense as the mantle, the chocolate as the oceanic crust and the hazelnut as the continental crust.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

ratios will probably always be way off, no way to make a crust that thin without also making it huge

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Eggs are closer. The center of the yolk being fully cooked. The outer half of the yolk uncooked but hot enough to be. The crust bursting when expansion escapes through a weakend crack solidifying as if continental crust.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

A Ferrero Rocher does look like it has mountains on it as well so this tracks.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ravioli with meat

[–] scuffle@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Takoyaki maybe?

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That alt text is absolutely a mood that I can only respect

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Ok, hear me out. It's a scotched egg, but the egg is soft boiled.

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

The calzones have betrayed me...

[–] match@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

The liquid center bursts out sometimes, it's a soup dumpling

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like to think of the Earth more as a pizza roll. Eating one right out of the oven sure feels like tasting magma to me.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever had a ravioli that's "molten inside". I'd say most of the time the pasta is the most soft part.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The mass produced one are like that

[–] dharwin@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago
[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a ravioli, the casing was not made by pressing or folding two layers of the solid material together

[–] reinei@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So subduction zones don't count as "folding" anymore?

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not really, that brings magma currents into the equation, which actually make the comparison even worse since raviolis don't undergo plate tectonic movements

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Why is the core of your ravioli molten?

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And a ravioli is a filling placed between two grain-dough based layers of even thickness; making it, and thus by extension, the Earth, a sandwich.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is a toastie a ravioli or a sandwich?

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

As I’m going with the ‘ravioli as a subset of sandwich’ paradigm… Yes.

Of course, I recommend referring to the original text for reference.

[–] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The core is mostly solid. It's the mantle that is mostly liquid (probably).

So more like a soup dumpling.

Xiaolongbao earth.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds microwaved. Molten center with icy parts.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And now I’m hungry.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dont tell Thanatos or he'll float over with some marinara sauce

[–] BoringHusband@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's more like a mince pie hot from the oven. You can hold it but the insides burn your mouth if you bite into it.