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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 1 month ago

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

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

And those people are wrong.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

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 1 month 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 1 month ago

And in California bees are fish.

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In Catholicism beavers are fish.

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 17 points 1 month ago

And in absurdism, beavers are bees.

[-] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Both are busy, the logic checks out

[-] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Bread->filling->bread I'm good

[-] eskimofry@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago
[-] _core@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Didn't have to scroll far to see this here

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Never forget that a caesar salad is 100 sandwiches

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago
[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Would be a taco. Which is now a sandwich.

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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

[-] akakunai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

Tortilla is bread

[-] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 1 month ago

A pizza is an unfolded calzone or stromboli.

[-] mynachmadarch@kbin.social -3 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago
[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you Finally someone who understands

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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?

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 1 month ago
[-] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 1 month 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?

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

BURN THE HERETIC!

[-] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

da fuq does Indiana legislature know?

I've been waiting for this moment my entire life

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