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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cake is a quick bread, which might not count as bread for the purposes of sandwiches.

Further study is required. OP, how was your lunch cake?

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe this isn't already here...

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If poptarts are ravioli, but also a sandwich, does that mean that all ravioli are sandwiches from the ingredient/structural rebel perspective?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Makes perfect sense to me, but I'm both a structure and ingredients anarchist.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

We don't have this problem in Australia, where a sandwich is narrowly understood as being between two slices of bread cut from a loaf.

If it's on a bread roll it's not a sandwich it's a roll. If it's on a burger bun it's not a sandwich it's a burger. A sub is not a sandwich, it's a sub. A hot dog cannot be considered a sandwich, nor could a cake or anything else that's clearly not a sandwich.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

What about a burger on toasted bread slices?

Example of Sonic burger which is on Texas Toast slices instead of a bun

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So if you put peanut butter and jelly between hamburger buns, it's a burger?

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No, it's an abomination. But also yes.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

✅ Cream cheese on banana bread

Got it.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get the fuck out! I am not making you a cottage cheese pastrami sandwich on banana bread! That would severely damage my reputation.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Let me ask you a question: how do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Pizza is technically an open-faced sandwich, but it's still pizza.

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What about Turkish bread?

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yes, and?

Nordic (or Finnish/Swedish at least) "sandwich cake".

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sandwich cake is already a term that means the same thing as layer cake. The classic combination of two layers of Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and whipped cream in between is called a Victoria Sandwich. Anyone arguing that a layer cake isn't a sandwich is just illiterate, not a defender of semantic specificity.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I've never heard of anyone putting jelly/jam on cake and now I want to try it.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My spouse makes one that way that everyone we know goes wild about. Literally just yellow cake, cooked strawberries, and homemade whipped cream. We're both baffled by how popular it is, but I guess the Midwest isn't used to real whipped cream.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd say most Americans aren't used to real whipped cream in general lol. Just the other week, I went to a Harry Potter-themed birthday party for who is essentially my niece and my brother made a British recipe for whipped cream for the butterbeer slushies we made. It was thick as hell and pretty damn good.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The butterbeer was literally cream soda with a small leveled spoonful of butterscotch per can. Then we had a slushie machine then we put it in and it came out perfect.

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[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

Ice cream sandwiches are just ice cream between 2 dense cake layers. So by this definition, you'd be correct!

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Cereal is soup

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More importantly than having bread on the outside is being handheld.

Yes, you can eat anything with your hands, but cake is typically a fork food.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

In my house most baked goods are eaten without a fork, one small sliver/square at a time, while standing at the counter and repeatedly saying, "I'm just going to have one small bite."

lasagna is a sandwich.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OBJECTION!

How can a sandwich be a cake if cakes are sweet and sandwiches are salty?

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I feel like that's more a case for converging evolution than relationship. That actually makes this easier to deal with though.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sandwiches predates him as well.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Once could, if so inclined, put cake between two slices of bread. It'd be hard to argue that's not a sandwich.

[–] magnetichuman@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If the cake layers don't get your fingers messy and don't crumble when you hold it, I'll allow it. It also has to be small enough to be able to take a bite out of all the layers at once.

[–] proper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If cake is a sandwich then a loaf of sliced bread is a sandwich.

[–] pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Never had a bread sandwich I see

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It’s a stack of bread sandwiches- where the number of sandwiches is:

total number of slices / 3

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is cake bread though?

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that the definition of a sandwich, or is there something about 'sanwhich' that transcends its constituent parts? Could 'sandwich' be a cluster of different properties that, when considered as a whole, become 'sandwhich'? I think to get to the heart of this 'sandwhich' question, we need not look at the sandwhich but instead at 'cake'. What is 'cake' and do those propertie exclude sandwhich? What common aspects do cake and sandwhich have, and are both of those elements essential?

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Words aren’t isomorphic to their dictionary definitions—words had commonly-accepted meanings long before the existence of dictionaries. Dictionary definitions are just an attempt to come up with a heuristic for identifying things as instances of the term in question, but they’re never perfect—and the real-world usage is ontologically prior.

If the dictionary definition of sandwich fails to distinguish cakes from sandwiches, it’s just an imperfect definition (like all definitions are)—and we can leave it at that.

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Bread pudding is a brown sugar sandwitch.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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