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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You just know there are some people out there who feel like they've just won a decades-long debate with their friends

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having lived in a small American barrio, tacos are definitely sandwiches.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like you are even more qualified than some judge in Indiana

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Lol. Thanks. Doesn't count in court, I guess. I'm wondering if another group in another region would disagree?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

And those people are wrong.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

New York has a similar ruling for tax purposes, since prepared sandwiches have sales tax, unlike general groceries.

https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/sandwiches.htm

Always fun to be able to cite legal cases in your sandwich debates.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Ironically it was argued by the guy opening a Mexican restaurant because the locals were being assholes and probably racist.

I'm reminded of why tomatoes are legally considered a vegetable - agribusiness tried to use their taxonomic classification as a way to get the cheaper tax rate and the judge decided that their common use and reception as a vegetable was the defining factor.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And in California bees are fish.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

In Catholicism beavers are fish.

[–] Melkath@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And in absurdism, beavers are bees.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Both are busy, the logic checks out

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've encountered a few beavers that smell like fish.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Ma'am, I've told you before. You are not allowed to visit this zoo if you keep sniffing our animals

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bread->filling->bread I'm good

[–] eskimofry@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Funnily I am sure there is a thesis somewhere by disgruntled sandwich fans who define 3d vectors which pass through the side showing its not true.

Its funny imagining the horror on their faces when they realize that there are vectors on the original sandwich that don't pass through bread -> filling -> bread.

[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't have to scroll far to see this here

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Never forget that a caesar salad is 100 sandwiches

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would be a taco. Which is now a sandwich.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

In fact the best way to eat pizza is as a sandwich. Not just folded, but if you get two pizzas with three toppings each, or a half and half pizza, then take two different slices and place one upside down on another, you now have a pizza sandwich with 6 different toppings, but still the proper meat/cheese/sauce ratio. Gamechanger.

[–] ronflex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't trust a judge from Indiana to be able to tell the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground stg

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair, Burro and Burrow are spelled very similarly, but knowing the difference is a big W.

[–] akakunai@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

One of my Asian friends commented that "all of your food is just a sandwich" and I can't lie...man kinda has a point.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Im not sure I agree with that. There is no bread involved, and possibly worse for team sandwich, there is only one continuous wrapper. I don’t care what the tax man says that shit ain’t a sandwich. If anything it’s a sort of calzone.

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Tortilla is bread

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

There is no bread involved...

Tortillas are flat bread.

Also, pizza is an open face sandwich. Change my mind.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A pizza is an unfolded calzone or stromboli.

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Tortilla is absolutely flat bread.

We label foods based upon the number of carb sides.

Open face sandwiches are not a thing. A sandwich requires two non-contiguous opposed bread layers, otherwise it isn't a sandwich. It's a pie. A bottom carb layer with a top layer of substance. Pizza, pie, "open face sandwiches", and French parfait are all pies.

Now, by having only one contiguous bread, but covering three sides, that would put tacos, hotdogs, Philly cheese steaks, and subs all in their own category (arguably a misshapen pie, but that's a deeper debate).

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you Finally someone who understands

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes the term exists. I'm saying the term is wrong and shouldn't exist.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's weird in my area. We say toast and jam but call meat and cheese on toast a sandwich. I guess I'm my mind, more than once topping kind of makes it a sandwich, however ... Eggs and cheese on toast but Neuchatel and jam on toast.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would you consider butter and vegemite on toast to be a sandwich?

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It isn't a thing in USA, but I guess if it's filling, a sandwich? You're Aussie? What is the difference between Vegemite and marmite?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A bottom carb layer with a top layer of substance. Pizza, pie, “open face sandwiches”, and French parfait are all pies.

Now, by having only one contiguous bread, but covering three sides..

So tacos are open face pies?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

BURN THE HERETIC!

I've been waiting for this moment my entire life