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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.

[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.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

Two.

[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 ;-)

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

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

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Wrapped? In pairs? Pfah. Waste of time and packaging. One plastic bag, many sandwiches.

Buffet sandwiches are the same as normal sandwiches. Only smaller. And sometimes have stranger fillings.

And then there's baguette sandwiches - do you have a set length of baguette you define as one sandwich? IMO, any length of baguette can be a sandwich, so if you cut one in half you'll have two.

[fba.livejournal.com]

Don't confuse matters by bringing in fancy swanky continental bread! Who in their right mind would make a sandwich from a single slice of bread? Total insanity!

[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.

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

One, unless there are two of you.

[truckerr.livejournal.com]

One.

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

I say one, and woodnymph_ogger agrees.

[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.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

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

Pah

And if I cut something in two, I expect to end up with two.

Which is odd, because if I cut something in two, I expect to end up with *two halves*.

It's not my fault you people can't count.

It's not my fault you can't do fractions. No wonder you still struggle to call yourself an accountant :-P

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

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

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

"One piece of bread in a sandwich is just wrong
I'm not sure what it is - but it isn't a sandwich....."

There we have it.

[fba.livejournal.com]

A wrap?

[fba.livejournal.com]

Young people today. Wouldn't know how to multiply a common denominator if their lives depended on it!

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

But a sandwich wrap (note the word sandwich) is a big flat tortilla-like thing... If you *rolled up* the piece of bread, I guess it could be a wrap. Still be a rolled-up sandwich too though :)

[fba.livejournal.com]

OK - we have now entered the bizzaro-land where a Big Mac is a sandwich..... Obviously anything breadlike with anything edible in-between - be that rolled, sliced or stuffed is a sandwich! By your logic a doner kebab is a sandwich!

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

Logic? :)

There are limits. I wouldn't call a sandwich wrap a sandwich - I'd call it a sandwich wrap... Is very closely related to sandwiches :)
I might call the rolled-up bread a rolled-up sandwich though.

A Big Mac is obviously a burger rather than a sandwich. A very flat roll that's been cut into two, however, is close enough to a sandwich to be one, while something like a Napoli roll isn't. Apply a test of least astonishment for getting one of these when you ask for a sandwich :)
IMO, pitta breads with filling are distinctive enough to be called pitta breads rather than sandwiches - and when getting a kebab, the kebab is the point rather than the pitta bread, so you call it a kebab.

[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?