"The Court agrees with Quintana that tacos and burritos are Mexican style sandwiches," the judge wrote.
  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
    741·
    2 months ago

    Things like this seem silly but there’s likely laws or protection that use sandwiches in their wording.

    Defining things you want them to apply to as sandwiches is easier than changing the law.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Damn straight, if you ordered a sandwich in a restaurant and they brought you a burrito or taco… you’d be really confused and a bit annoyed that you didn’t get what you asked for.

    • slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      By that logic, cupcakes can be multiple things depending on how you eat them.

      If the cupcake is whole and frosted on top like how they’re normally served, you have toast. But if you rip off the bottom and turn it upside down and place it on the top, it is a sandwich. If you inject the frosting into the middle with a piping bag like an unemployed donut maker, it becomes a calzone.

      What I’m saying is cupcakes are valid options for all meals of the day.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 months ago

    Sandwich: 🥪 (two disconnected slices of bread cut from a larger loaf 🍞)

    Wrap: 🌯 (one continuous flat bread)

    Burger: 🍔 (a halved bun, therefore it’s also Chicken Burger, not Chicken Sandwich)

    Taco (🌮) feels like belonging broadly in the wrap category being based on flat bread.

      • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s worse then that. This all because people didn’t want Mexican restaurant in a strip mall what the fuck is wrong with these people?

    • Akareth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Hamburgers are a specific style of sandwiches whose name is derived from Hamburg, Germany.

      Chicken sandwiches are not hamburgers.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        A chicken sandwich is a sandwich when the chicken meat is between two slices of bread cut from a bigger loaf. It’s a chicken burger when it’s between two halves of a bun.

        And as you said, hamburger derives from the German city of Hamburg, so Germans, not Americans, have the authority here.🤪

    • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      from a topological perspective, wraps and tacos are two different beasts.

      in a wrap, the bread completely surrounds (and encloses) the other ingredients, so theres a 2-dimensional hole involved (which basically means the inside is hollow).

      in a taco, no such wholes are present.

      you can also distinguish sandwiches from tacos and wraps (since sandwiches involve two pieces of bread, like you said). but unfortunately, you can’t topologically distinguish a burger from a sandwich

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      First, you need to find a place where soup restaurants have some special privileges compared to normal businesses. Then, just start a soup restaurant there and serve cereal and milk instead.

      If you can’t find such a place, then maybe you can ask your local politicians to pass a bill like that. Would be nice if soup restaurants had to pay only half the amount of taxes compared to everyone else. Would be good for the owners, and fun for everyone else to see where the resulting legal battles go. Suddenly, you would find lots of companies selling just about anything and everything as soup and claiming they don’t have to pay the usual taxes.

  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU ALL!!! EVERYONE LAUGHED WHEN I SAID A HOT DOG ON A BUN IS A SANDWICH WELL WHO’S LAUGHING NOW??

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I would have argued with you before today, because a hot dog is clearly a taco. But I guess if tacos are sandwiches, then by the transitive property, it is also a sandwich.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    This tuling was passed due to a contract obligation to open a sandwich store. These cases are ueually related to regulations. Kind of like when an Irish court ruled that Subway subs are cakes, so higher VAT and sugar tax would apply to them. (In all fairness, the sugar content in the Subway “bread” is several times higher than the max allowed for bread.)

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    We already have the Cube Rule of Food Identification Unifying Theory. Tacos are Tacos. Burritos are Wraps. These guys need to get with the program. We base our food taxonomy on the specific arrangement of carbohydrates like civilized people.

  • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Does the Indiana judge know what a Torta is? Does he not realize that there’s… actual sandwiches (there’s like 7-8 different sandwiches). Tacos and burritos are NOT sandwiches.

    I’m Latino, not of Mexican origin. However, sometimes I prefer their sandwich over any other dish. And I normally would buy two of them.

      • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Technically it’s a grilled cheese sandwich, right?

        But getting into technicalities:

        According to Merriam-Webster, a quesadilla is a sandwich if you classify a tortilla as bread. A sandwich is defined as “two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between” or “one slice of bread covered with food”. A quesadilla is made with a tortilla and cheese, but the tortilla does not contain a leavening agent and therefore cannot be considered bread.