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Is cake a sort of bread? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by Binette@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So according to Merriam Webster bread is: a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal

And cake is: A: a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened B: a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)

And yet some people don't think that cake is bread.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 33 points 11 months ago (6 children)

According to the cube rule

Cake having six sides is a type of calzone.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Cake does not encapsulate and is therefore toast.

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The speciality cakes with images in them when you cut them could be considered sushi

[–] xep@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago

vaguely threatening gesture You're toast, cake.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Many cakes have some sort of filling between flat layers and are therefore sandwiches.

Charlotte royale is a calzone, tho.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

This would technically only be true for cakes with filling - a normal cake doesn't have 6 sides of carbs, it's all the way through.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Wrong. Cake is a frosting sandwich.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A hotdog is a a taco, most certainly, but don't calzones have stuff contained within?

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I suppose jet thinks that brad is a calzone with bread/dough filling

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only if it has filling in the center specifically. Many cakes would actually be sandwiches by this definition, and those without filling would be toast.

Also, I take issue with all open-ended wraps being lumped in as sushi.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

There is even at least one variety of cake literally called a sandwich, the Victoria Sandwich.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I guess going by this logic, bread is a calzone with bread filling. doesn't make a lot of sense to me tbh.