The Cube Rule
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Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it’s clearly a taco.

  •  chris.   ( @nihilx7E3@beehaw.org ) 
    8•1 year ago

    this site is one of my go tos for when i feel like starting a completely pointless argument 😂 just say “did y’all know pop tarts are technically a type of calzone?” & 30 seconds later you’re having the dumbest debate known to man with the entire friend group

  •  Malgas   ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) 
    5•1 year ago

    This analysis has an inconsistency regarding pie:

    A slice of pumpkin pie is listed as toast (starch on one side), but a slice of double-crusted pie is a taco (three sides), a whole key lime pie is a quiche (five sides), and a whole double-crusted pie is a calzone (six sides).

    In all cases save one, side crust is seen as distinct from bottom crust. A slice of pumpkin pie therefore has starch on two sides, making it a sandwich.

    •  medgremlin   ( @medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
      2•1 year ago

      Except that the sides are adjacent, so it would be a taco, wouldn’t it?

      Edit: On further reflection, I think that the designation of “bent toast” is just too much of a slippery slope given possible malformations a food could undergo leading to morphology changes. This is the whole problem with morphological naming schema. It’s carcinization all over again.