(And thus perfectly acceptable to eat for lunch)
If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.
Submitted 9 months ago by OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Dasus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 9 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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If the cake layers are dry, don’t have frosting, 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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
Makes perfect sense to me, but I’m both a structure and ingredients anarchist.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cereal is soup
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
lasagna is a sandwich.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bread pudding is a brown sugar sandwitch.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 9 months ago
A cake isn’t a sandwich because nobody calls it a sandwich.
Bags@piefed.social 9 months ago
Also, I think you might be hard-pressed to find anyone who would consider sugary cake sponge to be "bread". (Something something Ireland's supreme court ruled that Subway's bread isn't legally bread for tax purposes due to its high sugar content)
It'd be like layering up some sourdough slices with sweet sugary icing slathered between them, most people probably wouldn't call that a cake.
proper@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If cake is a sandwich then a loaf of sliced bread is a sandwich.
pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Never had a bread sandwich I see
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a stack of bread sandwiches- where the number of sandwiches is:
total number of slices / 3
Windex007@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake
uienia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sandwiches predates him as well.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel like that’s more a case for converging evolution than relationship. That actually makes this easier to deal with though.
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 9 months ago
Ice cream sandwiches are just ice cream between 2 dense cake layers. So by this definition, you’d be correct!
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
I’ve never heard of anyone putting jelly/jam on cake and now I want to try it.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
One of my favorite cakes is a chocolate traditional cake and frosting but the inner layer is raspberry jam. It’s so good.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yes, but which sand?
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
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 defined term, but they’re never perfect—and the common 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 9 months ago
Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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 9 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.”
immutable@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
piconaut@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
Delicious.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is cake bread though?