It’s clearly two sandwichs.
The bold move would be to have the other side have the peanut butter and jelly swapped around. I’d call that the ouroboroswich.
[edit] what if it only had 1 cut? I think that’d be a taco
[edit 2] a torus cut once makes a cylinder. So really, it’s a double decker sandwich
[edit 3] but it’s cylinders that loop back on themselves. Is it a mobiuswhich or a Klien Wich?
[edit n] help
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Okay hear me out, what about the peanut butter on one axis (either conventional sandwich, or this rotated 90 degrees) and the jelly as it is here
What are we dealing with then? This might transcend the cube system of food categorisation.
The Cube Rule is the most definitive and authoritative categorization of food topology I have encountered. I refer to it often in food related arguments.
But what is the abomination I’ve described? I don’t think it fits.
I’m not ready for a world where the cube rule isn’t all encompassing
Although the bagel half on the bottom and the top are split toroids, topologically they are flat (you can ‘deform’ it into a flat plane if you squish it). This is assuming it hasn’t been cut down the center as well.
The filling of PB&J is between the two starches. Therefore this is Food Type 2: Sandwich.
Okay but, what about down the centre as well? I think this is where the paved road ends
It is still a Type II sandwich, just that the middle portion is air.
In crappy text form it’s equivalent to:
Bread
PB&J | Air | PB&J
Bread
Okay so I think I’m failing miserably at articulating quite the monstrosity I’ve imagined. For illustrative purposes:
It’s an infinity sandwich.
I suppose it is neither a taco or a sand which, however it lives within the sandwich family. What’s weird is if we take the inner radius as it runs towards zero it would look no different to a sandwich (save the weirdly thick bread that looks similar to a burger), but it would be topologically different shape.
I suppose it depends on if you consider a bagle split more naturally a sandwich or not, and, if so, then it matters if the if the space of the filling being connected matters or not.
[edit] what if it only had 1 cut? I think that’d be a taco
Hmm… so a steak is a salad, and a salad is nachos? Something screwy here…
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Food identification war intensifies
So answer is yes
The last time someone made a bagel with everything on it it put the universe in jeopardy.
The everything bagel needs to include smaller everything bagels on it or it doesn’t include everything.
Recursion
It is a sandwich because the toppings are sandwiched between bread. But it’s not a good sandwich.
Now, they wouldn’t be toppings in this configuration, would they?
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Top bun? Check
Bottom bun? Check
Yep, it’s a sandwich. I’d like to see a video of you eating it now.
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Political lol
The most political a topic could possibly be, in fact.
Yes but it’s not a very good one
Yes.
A hot dog is also a sandwich
Pretty sure flatbread predated leavened bread, so it’s reasonable to conclude tacos predated both hot dogs and sandwiches.
Conclusion: Hot dogs are tacos, sandwiches are broken tacos.
Are pizzas just unfinished tacos then?
Pizza is just an open face sandwich, but arguments can be made that New York style is a taco because most people fold it to consume it.
Have to ask yourself what a calzone is then.
A calzone is a wrap/burrito. Unless uncrustables are in play and are recognized as their own distinct category. In which case a calzone is an uncrustable or vice versa
Yeah, they’re baked burritos for sure!
Next thing you’re going to tell me is a pasty is a burrito.
Pastries are an umbrella category of baked goods that are usually but not always sweet. The composition of the dough and preparation techniques are different and distinct from the sandwich debate. Though I guess you could make the case for empanadas. Or that calzones are large Italian empanadas and uncrustables are also a type of empanada. Hmmm 🤔
Sort of. As the other commenter pointed out, they are open face.
Sandwiches are broken tacos, but pizzas are not broken.
Pizzas are open face tacos.
and thus kitchens are just covered campfires now?
What? No.
A hot dog is a taco.
A taco is also a sandwich
Ehem, well actually leavened bread came out way after flatbreads - so sandwiches are broken tacos.
It’s all tacos.
Taco is Mexican for sandwich.
Well, everyone knows that.
But by current BSA standards a taco is a sandwitch. So it checks out.
So sandwich is the parent category, and hot dogs are a type of sandwich? Are burgers, too?
Oh no I accidentally started researching, there is an actual British Sandwich Association that defines sandwich as “any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold”. The USDA, however, has different definitions for open and closed sandwiches and it depends on the percentage amounts of bread and meat… I guess if you put cheese on your bread it’s not a sandwich at all!
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What do we call it if it is also cut and filled in the conventional bagel plane?
xandwich
I like the way you think. That also leaves open the possibly of the yandwich, which is cut into three equal segments in the same way as the opening post, and the xyandwich when you combine the x and y options.
Not a Δandwich?
Now I’m just getting hungry.
Tesserwich is a possibility if you start fucking around in the Fourth dimension.
I’ve been trying to work out if, by cutting a helix around the bagel, you can create a mobius type sandwich with two, interlinked parts.
Moving in to higher dimensional bagel cutting is probably the sort of thing you can really make one’s brain hurt.
I think a Mobius bagel would be a SCP artifact. In before it’s actually cataloged and numbered.
The right answer.
Sandwich cut in half
I realise that you are correct, but which way is the sandwich, and which way is the cut? It’s filled on both planes.
According to that, I think OP would have a sandwich.
Goodbye horseshoe theory hello half-bagel theory.
It’s a sandwich, but it’s not a sandwich sandwich
Technical definition is a 3-Torus sandwich, defined as any sandwich that is homeomorphic to the Cartesian product of three circles.
Isn’t it S_1 x S_1 x [0, 1] here though?
