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

submitted 4 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 4 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 4 months ago (3 children)

Cake does not encapsulate and is therefore toast.

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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

[–] xep@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago

vaguely threatening gesture You're toast, cake.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 7 points 4 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 4 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 4 months ago

Wrong. Cake is a frosting sandwich.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 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 4 months ago

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

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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.