If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.

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• immutable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  cuberule.com

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  • piconaut@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    saladtheory.github.io

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Discount cube rule.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can’t believe this isn’t already here…

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  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Delicious.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, and?

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

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• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One of my favorite cakes is a chocolate traditional cake and frosting but the inner layer is raspberry jam. It’s so good.

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• BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cereal is soup

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is cake bread though?

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lasagna is a sandwich.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Today@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.”

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• not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sandwiches predates him as well.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• proper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    total number of slices / 3

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  • pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never had a bread sandwich I see

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• Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bread pudding is a brown sugar sandwitch.

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• cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A cake isn’t a sandwich because nobody calls it a sandwich.

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  • Bags@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, but which sand?

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