this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
424 points (97.7% liked)

Not The Onion

12314 readers
202 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Sandwich: 🥪 (two disconnected slices of bread cut from a larger loaf 🍞)

Wrap: 🌯 (one continuous flat bread)

Burger: 🍔 (a halved bun, therefore it's also Chicken Burger, not Chicken Sandwich)

Taco (🌮) feels like belonging broadly in the wrap category being based on flat bread.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm sending the cops over to your house right now.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's worse then that. This all because people didn't want Mexican restaurant in a strip mall what the fuck is wrong with these people?

[–] reattach@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is a sub/hoagie a sandwich? Bread is usually connected.

Oh God, why did I get involved

[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it is, then a hotdog is a sandwich and that's just nonsense.

[–] homesnatch@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

No kidding... a hotdog is clearly a taco.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not two slices of bread from a bigger loaf, so no.

[–] putty@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

those poor sandwich shop owners are all going to go out of business when they hear the news

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

those poor sandwich shop owners are all going to go out of business when they hear the news

Yeah, with that hard competition by taco stands...

[–] titter@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

But tacos traditionally are more like wraps by your definition, with the exception being hard/crunchy tacos which are on what i would technically call a chip, this making crunchy tacos just portable nachos

Additionally walking tacos are supported by a chip bag, making them neither a taco nor nachos.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe I'm doing injustice here but I've always thought of soft tacos as a lazy wrap.

[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, what of rolls? Ciabatta, Kaiser rolls? Even croissants? By this definition it seems they'd be burgers, since rolls are cut in half. But then my roast beef sandwich is a lying, cold, sad burger

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You have weird Ciabattas if you think that Ciabatta is a kind of bun and not a bigger loaf. Croissants are pastry. And yes, burgers made with Kaiser rolls are totally burgers:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7a/a3/1c/7aa31c21b7b0f546ea7ebe4ac0a59b12.jpg

[–] Akareth@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hamburgers are a specific style of sandwiches whose name is derived from Hamburg, Germany.

Chicken sandwiches are not hamburgers.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

A chicken sandwich is a sandwich when the chicken meat is between two slices of bread cut from a bigger loaf. It's a chicken burger when it's between two halves of a bun.

And as you said, hamburger derives from the German city of Hamburg, so Germans, not Americans, have the authority here.🤪

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

from a topological perspective, wraps and tacos are two different beasts.

in a wrap, the bread completely surrounds (and encloses) the other ingredients, so theres a 2-dimensional hole involved (which basically means the inside is hollow).

in a taco, no such wholes are present.

you can also distinguish sandwiches from tacos and wraps (since sandwiches involve two pieces of bread, like you said). but unfortunately, you can’t topologically distinguish a burger from a sandwich