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TIL about The Cube Rule for categorizing food based on the location of structural starch. (cuberule.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Rainbright@kbin.social to c/food@beehaw.org
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Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

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[โ€“] emstuff@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

shoutout to the internet for combining semantics debate and a deeply aholistic understanding of human food culture to create truly one of my least favorite things on here

[โ€“] nihilx7E3@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

this site is one of my go tos for when i feel like starting a completely pointless argument ๐Ÿ˜‚ just say "did y'all know pop tarts are technically a type of calzone?" & 30 seconds later you're having the dumbest debate known to man with the entire friend group

[โ€“] marshadow@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I hate it.

(Three bean ~~soup~~ salad I cannot stop giggling)

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

This caused me to cry-laugh and share with all my math nerd friends who know topology. (I'm sure they will be 100% fine with this.)

[โ€“] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This analysis has an inconsistency regarding pie:

A slice of pumpkin pie is listed as toast (starch on one side), but a slice of double-crusted pie is a taco (three sides), a whole key lime pie is a quiche (five sides), and a whole double-crusted pie is a calzone (six sides).

In all cases save one, side crust is seen as distinct from bottom crust. A slice of pumpkin pie therefore has starch on two sides, making it a sandwich.

[โ€“] medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except that the sides are adjacent, so it would be a taco, wouldn't it?

Edit: On further reflection, I think that the designation of "bent toast" is just too much of a slippery slope given possible malformations a food could undergo leading to morphology changes. This is the whole problem with morphological naming schema. It's carcinization all over again.