If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.
(And thus perfectly acceptable to eat for lunch)
Can't believe this isn't already here...
If poptarts are ravioli, but also a sandwich, does that mean that all ravioli are sandwiches from the ingredient/structural rebel perspective?
Makes perfect sense to me, but I'm both a structure and ingredients anarchist.
Cake is a quick bread, which might not count as bread for the purposes of sandwiches.
Further study is required. OP, how was your lunch cake?
Delicious.
We don't have this problem in Australia, where a sandwich is narrowly understood as being between two slices of bread cut from a loaf.
If it's on a bread roll it's not a sandwich it's a roll. If it's on a burger bun it's not a sandwich it's a burger. A sub is not a sandwich, it's a sub. A hot dog cannot be considered a sandwich, nor could a cake or anything else that's clearly not a sandwich.
What about a burger on toasted bread slices?
So if you put peanut butter and jelly between hamburger buns, it's a burger?
No, it's an abomination. But also yes.
Pizza is technically an open-faced sandwich, but it's still pizza.
What about Turkish bread?
Yep, drives me nuts when they call burgers sandwiches. If you gotta classify them together, call them handhelds.
Yes, and?
Nordic (or Finnish/Swedish at least) "sandwich cake".
Sandwich cake is already a term that means the same thing as layer cake. The classic combination of two layers of Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and whipped cream in between is called a Victoria Sandwich. Anyone arguing that a layer cake isn't a sandwich is just illiterate, not a defender of semantic specificity.
I've never heard of anyone putting jelly/jam on cake and now I want to try it.
My spouse makes one that way that everyone we know goes wild about. Literally just yellow cake, cooked strawberries, and homemade whipped cream. We're both baffled by how popular it is, but I guess the Midwest isn't used to real whipped cream.
One of my favorite cakes is a chocolate traditional cake and frosting but the inner layer is raspberry jam. It's so good.
Congratulations on your sudden literacy (?).
Ice cream sandwiches are just ice cream between 2 dense cake layers. So by this definition, you'd be correct!
Cereal is soup
lasagna is a sandwich.
More importantly than having bread on the outside is being handheld.
Yes, you can eat anything with your hands, but cake is typically a fork food.
In my house most baked goods are eaten without a fork, one small sliver/square at a time, while standing at the counter and repeatedly saying, "I'm just going to have one small bite."
Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake
If the cake layers don't get your fingers messy and don't crumble when you hold it, I'll allow it. It also has to be small enough to be able to take a bite out of all the layers at once.
Once could, if so inclined, put cake between two slices of bread. It'd be hard to argue that's not a sandwich.
If cake is a sandwich then a loaf of sliced bread is a sandwich.
It’s a stack of bread sandwiches- where the number of sandwiches is:
total number of slices / 3
Never had a bread sandwich I see
Is cake bread though?
Is that the definition of a sandwich, or is there something about 'sanwhich' that transcends its constituent parts? Could 'sandwich' be a cluster of different properties that, when considered as a whole, become 'sandwhich'? I think to get to the heart of this 'sandwhich' question, we need not look at the sandwhich but instead at 'cake'. What is 'cake' and do those propertie exclude sandwhich? What common aspects do cake and sandwhich have, and are both of those elements essential?
Words aren’t isomorphic to their dictionary definitions—words had commonly-accepted meanings long before the existence of dictionaries. Dictionary definitions are just an attempt to come up with a heuristic for identifying things as instances of the term in question, but they’re never perfect—and the real-world usage is ontologically prior.
If the dictionary definition of sandwich fails to distinguish cakes from sandwiches, it’s just an imperfect definition (like all definitions are)—and we can leave it at that.
Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?
Bread pudding is a brown sugar sandwitch.
Yes, but which sand?
The sand which Sam the Witch panned for riches on the strand which spans, to wit, from headland to ridge
A cake isn't a sandwich because nobody calls it a sandwich.
Also, I think you might be hard-pressed to find anyone who would consider sugary cake sponge to be "bread". (Something something Ireland's supreme court ruled that Subway's bread isn't legally bread for tax purposes due to its high sugar content)
It'd be like layering up some sourdough slices with sweet sugary icing slathered between them, most people probably wouldn't call that a cake.
https://cuberule.com/
https://saladtheory.github.io/
Discount cube rule.