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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

And those people are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And in California bees are fish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

In Catholicism beavers are fish.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And in absurdism, beavers are bees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Both are busy, the logic checks out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bread->filling->bread I'm good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Would be a taco. Which is now a sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Never forget that a caesar salad is 100 sandwiches

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Didn't have to scroll far to see this here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Tortilla is bread

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

There is no bread involved...

Tortillas are flat bread.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A pizza is an unfolded calzone or stromboli.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you Finally someone who understands

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

BURN THE HERETIC!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

da fuq does Indiana legislature know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've been waiting for this moment my entire life