• @ummthatguy
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    308 months ago

    Just a heads up, this was posted yesterday.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      My client currently shows both posts adjacent to each other, lol.

      Oh would you look at that, both are upvoted and it seems to be staying that way!

      • @ummthatguy
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        58 months ago

        Who largely outsources with credit, but the point stands. I only brought it up initially since there’s a chance the mods (including the man himself) could remove it.

        • The Picard ManeuverM
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          98 months ago

          I just woke up from a nap and misread this thread to mean that I had accidentally reposted this without realizing it, which is something I’ve done before…

          The post has a high ratio of upvotes, and new people are probably enjoying it, so I suppose I’ll just leave it up this time. No harm, no foul.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      Wtf? Even my descriptivist ass is telling whoever came up with that that they’re wrong. A burrito is a calzone? An enchilada is sushi? Words mean what you mean when you say them, but they also need to have some structural stability. Out here calling sushi toast. Wtf.

      • @TootSweet
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        88 months ago

        You poor unsaved soul. No, sushi (such as pigs in a blanket) is sushi. Toast (such as nigiri) is toast.

        • JWBananas
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          48 months ago

          If I ask for salmon on a bagel, and I get butter on toast, we’re having words.

          • @TootSweet
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            8 months ago

            I’m sorry, what’s the difference exactly? That’s just two terms for a flat layer of starch with non-starch on top. “Toast,” if you will.

          • @TootSweet
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            38 months ago

            Well of course nigiri sushi isn’t a type of sushi.

            You think earwigs are an affectation worn by people who are self-conscious about their lack of ear hair? That lightyears are a unit of time? That a urinal cake is a type of lasagna?

      • @TootSweet
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        38 months ago

        When the true Cube Rule believers are rewarded with all manner of toast, sandwiches, tacos, sushi, quiches, calzones, salads, cakes, nachos, and muffins, you’ll be sorry you plied your tasteless heresy this day, filthy food miscategorizer! I bet you call hot dogs “sandwiches” like a true troglodite!

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            8 months ago

            Oh, you’re just confused, you see. Of course sushi (such as enchaladas) are sushi. See? Would you care to recite the Creed of Cubic Food with me now?

    • lad
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      28 months ago

      But if those are served in a bread, cereal is quiche

      • @TootSweet
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        48 months ago

        A common misconception. You see, nachos are foods composed of a starch within a substrate of non-starch. What you’re calling “open faced sandwiches” are a form of “toast” in which non-starch sits atop a layer of starch.

  • @daltotron
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    68 months ago

    In my world, calling cereal a soup is like calling a grape an apple. Soup is not an encompassing category, soup is a genericized standalone object, along the lines of a platonic form. The same is true of a hot dog. When we reference a BLT as a sandwich, it is simply referencing the generic, rather than the specific, it’s like referencing a tissue rather than a kleenex.

    Within this framework, there are no real sandwiches. There is no real soup. That utensil you might eat it with? Not real either, champ.

  • @joel_feila
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    38 months ago

    A hotdog is a taco. Starch on 3 sides.

    Is cereal soup, no since milk is optional

  • @[email protected]
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    Only some cereals are soups. Lucky charms in milk is a soup. Frosted Flakes in milk is not. A soup has to be a collection of different ingredients in a liquid medium.

    Is Trix a soup? I have no clue.

    /fight_me

  • @Dabundis
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    -18 months ago

    The purpose of language is communication. If I were to say “I had soup for breakfast” when I really had cereal, it would probably communicate the wrong idea. Cereal is not soup, and it is not necessary to produce a robust, cereal-excluding definition of soup to defend this point.