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Orange chicken is just chicken nuggets tossed in sauce. (lemmy.world)
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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

No its not. A hotdog covers a sausage from 3 sides. A sandwich only from 2. Have you never heard of the cube rule?

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Cereal is a cold soup

If my hotdog bun splits, does it cease being a hotdog and become a sandwich?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

No, it becomes a giraffe.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of sub places don't cut the bread all the way through, so their sandwiches have bread on 3 sides

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago

Back in the day, Subway V-cut their bread and wasn't total shit.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

It’s a taco.

Hotdogs are tacos.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We've had a ton of debates in my object oriented programming classes about the cube rule of food. Representing it using classes and inheritance with varying food types can be fun:

https://kottke.org/plus/misc/images/cube-rule-food-01.jpg

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So a hot-dog is a taco? is a burrito sushi? beans and rice a salad? Beef wellington a calzone?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think to be organized you'd pick one cuisine as a base object. So if a hotdog is a taco, then beef wellington is a burrito (bread on all sides) as is a calzone.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I don't follow. I'm mostly taking a piss at the idea that there could be a computational identification system.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

My idea is you pick one ethnic style as the base and use the cube bread rule to classify every food under that one ethnic base class. So if you start with the idea that a hotdog is a taco, you'd make Mexican your base ethnic cuisine and classify all other foods into a type of Mexican food.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Hot dogs as sandwiches are no different than a sub or hogie. They are sandwiches.