- cross-posted to:
- weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
- cross-posted to:
- weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
You must log in or register to comment.
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.
Makes more sense than the time Indiana tried to define pi as 3.2. The only reason it didn’t was because a professor from Purdue was in Indianapolis on unrelated business and convinced Indiana’s senate to table the bill.
Of course, we know today that such a thing couldn’t happen since Indiana’s legislature would laugh at the woke lib and pass it just to trigger him.
Well two decimal places invokes the devil, as does rounding correctly.
But why do they even have laws about sandwiches in the first place?
Read the article. It’s a zoning issue.
I’m sorry sir, this is a sandwich only zone. You and your parfait need to leave immediately.
we’re just loading the parfait i swear
Something existing does not answer the question about WHY it exists.
I’m not sure if this particular article explained, but I live here. He signed an agreement that stated that “any food business allowed would be a ‘subway’ style food business”
That’s the issue
Edit: I’m a huge fan of this taco place, just stating what’s going on. I hate subway.
That isn’t a law or zoning then, just some contract dispute.
Yea, which is why it’s in court I believe. It’s escalated to this point.
Could be food safety, taxes, production rules or any number of things.
The article does not mention any sandwich specific laws, just contract stuff about what kind of restaurant can be in a strip mall.
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.
Finally, some legislation from the middle of the country that makes sense.
But also:
Mexican style sandwiches
That’s what a Torta is!
Both can be true.
So is a taco a torta?
Sandwich is the more generic word. So a torta is a sandwich, and so is a taco, but a torta is not a taco, and a taco is not a torta. Both of them are specific types of sandwich.
Just like a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square.
Is a poor boy a philly cheese steak?
Preposterous. Burritos are calzone.
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.
What I’m saying is cupcakes are valid options for all meals of the day.
Exactly! Q.E.D.!
- 1 side is toast
- 2 sides is a sandwich
- 3 sides is a taco
- 4 sides is a taquito
- 5 sides is a wrap
- 6 sides is a burrito
Incorrect.
- 4 sides is sushi / maki
- 5 sides is a soup / salad bowl
- 6 sides is a calzone
I prefer my sushi infinite-sided, thank you very much.
Burritos have an inside and an outside, therefore sandwich.
So… a hot dog is a taco?
Yes, by definition
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.
I’m sending the cops over to your house right now.
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?
Hamburgers are a specific style of sandwiches whose name is derived from Hamburg, Germany.
Chicken sandwiches are not hamburgers.
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.🤪
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
Okay, who will go to court for the cereal soup question next?
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.
Reminder that legality is not based on morality.
Good enough for New York, good enough for Indiana
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/22/5877325/new-york-law-sandwich-burrito-tax
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??
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.
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.)
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.
On whose authority??
That Judge’s apparently.
He’s wrong!
Take it up with the legislature, pal.
Who does a guy need to bribe around here to get something changed?
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.
But is a quesadilla a sandwich?
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.
but the tortilla does not contain a leavening agent and therefore cannot be considered bread.
I have to disagree here. It is unleavened bread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unleavened_bread
I’m surprised Merriam-Webster doesn’t know that.
Nice find!
