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This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit t
by mazelife 8y ago
This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit the existence of an eighth category... that is to say the inverse of the calzone, which would be "starch surrounded on all sides by a non-starch"? An anti-calzone, if you will. Seems rather rare, but not impossible (e.g. turkey with stuffing).
- skykooler 8y agoAnother example would be a glazed donut (starch surrounded by sugar).
- delecti 8y agoDoesn't the toroidal topology of a donut mean that both the starch and sugar are simultaneously surrounding each other?
- fanf2 8y agoBut what if it is a donut that is both filled and glazed? Is the glaze just on top or all the way round? What does a beef Wellington count as? It has multiple nested layers... what if you made a turducken and wrapped each bird in a flatbread of some kind, before stuffing it in a larger bird?
- CiPHPerCoder 8y agoBeef Wellington is in the same class as calzones. Possibly as a cascade thereof.
- FakeComments 8y agoI think co-calzone is probably most sensible. Though the whole topic is a mess: an open-faced sandwich suddenly is a self-dual food.
- AaronFriel 8y agoSelf duals are entirely reasonable! A unified theory of food would be incomplete if we excluded such beautiful symmetries.
- andybak 8y agoSo where are we heading? It seems we might slip from group theory to category theory. At which point we are surely describing the structure of meta-sandwiches (in that they sandwich various definitions of sandwichness between each other)
- AaronFriel 8y agoI think you're onto something, after all burritos are just endofunctors in the category of monoids.
- wtfrmyinitials 8y agoSo called "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches.
- DrScump 8y agoProjected into two dimensions, they are.
- curuinor 8y agocall em' gallatines
- luminiferous 8y agoSome of the post's salad examples (spaghetti, poutine) could be interpreted as starch surrounded by non-starch. Thus I believe the rule would still consider turkey with stuffing to be a salad.
- tiglionabbit 8y agoIt’s not a salad if it’s a single cohesive unit. If you chopped it up, it could pass as a “turkey salad” I guess, in the sense of a potato salad, but that would still be a stretch.
- gagege 8y agoOnce, while working in a pizza place I theorized the creation of what I like to call the Dyson Pizza. Sauce, cheese, and toppings completely encircling a sphere of bread.
- mikeash 8y agoIt’s appropriate that such a thing could only be baked in space.
- andrewflnr 8y agoIt's suddenly obvious that not only could this be baked in space, it absolutely will be. This will be a thing when space tourism comes online. I only hope they still call it a Dyson pizza.
- mikeash 8y agoQuick, someone tell Elon Musk.
- _nalply 8y agoThe best would be a hollow sphere so that the crust is thin!
- alanbernstein 8y agoI have a dream of a spherical creme brulee, which presumably can only be cooked in zero gravity.
- Papirola 8y agocan you do a pizza Klein bottle?
- mesozoic 8y agoBut what if you take that turkey then bread it and fry it?
- Izkata 8y agoI believe that fits the last one, below the main classifications - "salad", where the starch is mixed in with the non-starch instead of wrapping it.
- ken 8y agohttps://www.creationsbykara.com/easy-bacon-wrapped-bread-bite-appetizers/ https://www.creationsbykara.com/easy-bacon-wrapped-bread-bit...
- CoolGuySteve 8y agoYes, Spaghetti is misclassified as "Salad". It is a solid starch entity where if you sampled any part of the cube, you would get some starch. A loaf of bread, a baked potato, etc are all anti-calzones.
- dpflug 8y agoI believe biscuits and gravy would qualify by that measure. There's a negligible amount of starch in the gravy, but it's largely fat.