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[coalescent]

Poll: two slices of bread, plus filling, then bisected. Is the result one sandwich or two?

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[fba.livejournal.com]

One - and you are a fool for asking! :p

[ajp.livejournal.com]

One.

[azureskies.livejournal.com]

One. Number of sandwiches is dependent on number of rounds of bread, IMO.

[white_hart]

One, definitely.

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Two. I consider a sandwich to be the single thing you pick up and eat. If someone had a bag of them and you asked for a sandwich, you'd only get one, wouldn't you?

And if you cut them into quarters, you have four mini-sandwiches.

[fba.livejournal.com]

Completely wrong - what you are referring in that example is, of course, *half* a sandwich. Half sandwiches should always be wrapped in pairs to make a whole sandwich - I mean - what's the point otherwise?

Don't get me started about sandwich quarters - buffet sandwiches are a *completely* different beast ;-)

[kittynic]

In total agreement over here. Individual pick ups are a sandwich.

And chillus agrees too.

[tags2k.livejournal.com]

So if you asked for half of my sandwich and I was feeling mean I could simply cut my sandwich into 200000000 pieces and give you half of one because that would still be half a sandwich? No? Therefore, it's one sandwich.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, cut and dried you would think but... what if the two slices of bread are replaced by a baguette, and the resulting sandwich then cut into two portions. Obviously now sandwiches.

Logically, in the example above, we have to say two sandwiches else we destroy the fabric of society.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Fool, that's a filled baguette in the first place, not a sandwich at all.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

Two.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

One, obviously. Anyone who says differently *cough*pikelet*cough* is clearly wrongheaded. And possibly smells of wee.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

Only old people smell of wee, which would be you :-p

And if I cut something in two, I expect to end up with two. It's not my fault you people can't count.

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Hah - Stewart says a sandwich made from one piece of bread folded over isn't a sandwich at all. I say it is. And it doesn't have another half.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Well what IS it then, according to this font of knowledge that is Stuart?

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

One, unless there are two of you.

[truckerr.livejournal.com]

One.

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

I say one, and woodnymph_ogger agrees.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

If someone cuts a sandwich in two at Eastercon but there is no one there to eat it is it still two?

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

If a sandwich spontaneously undergoes fission is it one or two?

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

I was a little more definite on it being one sandwich earlier, but I've loosened up and think if that if is viewed by the sandwich cutting person as one, it is one, if they view it as two, it is two. It's all about intention, although a dictionary definition of sandwich is that which involves any sort of food between two slices of bread, but life is too short and full of buffets and stop making me hungry.

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Heheheh. Very reasonable. I would offer you some, but I think most of the sandwiches in this thread have got a little soggy...

(Eeee! Mini egg truck!)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Actually, forget what I said to Tim, your definition is more sensible.

Mini egg truck!

Do you mean an American sandwich or a European one?

[applez.livejournal.com]

One, unless American, in which case supersizing means you actually have 4 sandwiches from such slicing. Be sure to have a Big Gulp gallon-sized soda "cup" to slide it all down too.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

It is one round of sandwiches.