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>A sandwich is any food that uses a carbohydrate to protect your hands from a messier food, so that you can eat it at a card table without getting your hands dirty (a la the origin myth).

I mean legally speaking it requires bread not just a carbohydrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich#Language

>In the US, a court in Boston, Massachusetts, ruled in 2006 that a sandwich includes at least two slices of bread[1] and "under this definition, this court finds that the term 'sandwich' is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas,

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> a sandwich includes at least two slices of bread

I guess open face sandwiches are not sandwiches.

As a Dane, I can confirm they are not.

Is a danish a kind of toast?

No, toast is a kind of Danish.

It is a kind of bread from Vienna.

To explain the joke, Danishes are called Wienerbrød in Denmark, aka Viennese Bread.

You can tell that just by looking at them.

I don't care a whit what the US court system considers a sandwich.

I don't think the suggestion was that the US court system's definition is supreme. I think the requirement of bread or at something starchy matches most people's intuitions for the definition of "sandwich." Is an apple (eaten whole, with your hands) a sandwich, given that apple peel contains carbohydrates?

by their definition not because the inside of the apple is not 'messy'

The stated requirement is that the inside is messier than the outside. I think that's uncontroversially true of an apple.

hmm, maybe, I think it must be a mistake though, the inside of just about everything is messier than the outside.

I'd say the inside of a rock is exactly as messy as the outside, but we can't eat rocks so that might be out of scope.

You can eat them if they're very small but you probably shouldn't.

yeah but the inside of a human is messier, which indicates that a human wearing this stuff https://materialdistrict.com/article/wheat-straw-based-cloth... is a sandwich.

however https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhydro_agate

Is there a particular court system you prefer?

Perhaps Ireland, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-ru... , if Subway bread too sugary to be bread maybe then a Subway sandwich is a form of cake. I wonder if 'Is it Cake?' will address this important question.

Well, as you know, all food is either a cake or a pie. So that settles that problem.

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