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mauvehaus · 3 years ago
I'm not sure if this is going to forestall or foment heated discussion about what is or isn't a sandwich, but it's certainly an attempt to codify what constitutes sandwichness:

https://cuberule.com/

j-kent · 3 years ago
There’s no such thing as a sandwich (phylogenetically)
tantalor · 3 years ago
There's no such thing as phylogeny (sandwichly)
handsclean · 3 years ago
Sure there is, you just need to look at the evolution of language, not DNA. The common ancestor is a meal eaten by the Earl of Sandwich in the 1760s, “salt beef between two slices of toasted bread”.
foobarian · 3 years ago
We would be remiss not to bring up the sandwich alignment chart:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentCharts/comments/83l9jy/san...

bell-cot · 3 years ago
Yet even their "Anarchist" (lower right) square has a rectangular item of food, with a starchy, finger-friendly exterior around a less starchy & finger-friendly interior.

Vs. a chart with chocolate-covered cherries, ceiling tiles, and such...

capableweb · 3 years ago
It is brought up on the "Cube Rule" page, but the page contains way more detail than so. If you haven't gone through it before, I recommend you do so.
cool_dude85 · 3 years ago
I subscribe to the fringe "four foods theory":

1) Substance - Indivisible, elemental food. Example: Vanilla ice cream, no toppings

2) Pizza - Monobreadular, arranged. Example: Nigiri sushi

3) Sandwich - Multibreadular, arranged. Example: Big Mac

4) Salad - Separable, not arranged. Example: Salad with croutons

JohnFen · 3 years ago
What is lasagna? It doesn't seem to easily fit in any of those categories, although it's clearly not a "substance".
sonicrocketman · 3 years ago
Sandwiches are but one part of the equation! For full context see the taxonomic definition of Sandwich (domain Catino, kingdom Cincta).

https://iifrp.org/rfc/RFC-5.html

(disclaimer, I wrote this spec)

Keegs · 3 years ago
I’m a big fan of the cube rule except for its salad category. The idea that a frittata and a bowl of tomato soup are equivalent is hard to swallow (pun intended).
dylan604 · 3 years ago
when has any comment posted publicly to the internet forestalled heated discussion?
boringg · 3 years ago
hot dogs and burritos are sandwiches right?
gen220 · 3 years ago
All according to cube rule:

Hot dogs are categorically tacos.

Burritos typically begin life as a "calzone", but experience most of their brief lives through the lens of a "soup/salad in a bread bowl".

Sometimes people prefer to fold a burrito into the "sushi" pattern. Depends on your mental image of a burrito.

kzrdude · 3 years ago
A burrito is a calzone in the cube rule system, but I'd rather rename that class to burrito.
carlosjobim · 3 years ago
Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

doctoboggan · 3 years ago
I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't.

This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

oceanplexian · 3 years ago
I squinted at the sandwiches trying to reverse their direction like an idiot. Guessing I’m not the only one.
JKCalhoun · 3 years ago
The dancer illusion is as though you are observing the dancer from a long distance away through a telescope of some sort where things like her hands do not appear to vary in relative size as she turns and they become nearer/farther from us.
StrictDabbler · 3 years ago
It also works on translucent objects and in a different form on the mask illusion, where a rotation depends on whether you believe the mask is bent away from or toward you.

Basically anytime that depth information is obscured.

jon889 · 3 years ago
I can't see how this is correct. The spinning dancer works because there's no details on it.
evan_ · 3 years ago
I was skeptical as well but after looking into it further I can confirm that it's actually true. The brain is amazing!
vanadium · 3 years ago
Need more old-school absurdity like this on the web these days.
samstave · 3 years ago
They need a BLINK tag version so as it rotates, it also blinks - or throws confetti or sparks.
geepytee · 3 years ago
Imagine opening Uber Eats and looking for a restaurant to order from. You are scrolling and they all look the same, but suddenly... What is that? That can't be right, this one has spinning pics of all the food they serve? HECK YEAH I'm ordering from that one
floatinglotus · 3 years ago
Why are VCs not backing more projects like this?
Buttons840 · 3 years ago
That's a company blog I would actually follow. I want to read a 4 page post about series-c funding to capture even more rotating sandwiches. I want to read about their hiring practices and how they use scrum to organize their sandwich projects.
qlm · 3 years ago
Twitter account of the admin: https://twitter.com/notabigjerk
braingenious · 3 years ago
To lay this to rest:

Should a tear occur such that the bread around a hot dog separates into two discrete pieces, it is then a sandwich. Therefore a hot dog is a potential sandwich in the same way that an egg is a potential chicken.

bell-cot · 3 years ago
Almost like the old Hamster Dance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance ) has been reincarnated...