Following Lengthy and expensive litigation, Burritos and Tacos are declared to be Sandwiches. - A court in Indiana has determined by a preponderence of the evidence that Mexican style Sandwiches are still just that. ingredients encased in bread.

mindlessobserver said:
But the initial written commitment for the development at a plaza Quintana owns limits the business to “a sandwich bar-style restaurant whose primary business is to sell ‘made-to-order’ or ‘subway-style’ sandwiches.”
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Yeah there is no problem with government regulations!

BTW they are not sandwiches.
 
the amount of autism in this thread is truly impressive. bravo, fellow kiwiposters. allow me to contribute:

this internet debate over hammering out a General Theory of Sandwich is totally pointless and retarded. there is no Platonic Form of sandwich that can be defined; sandwich itself is an idiomatic term. when debating the precise definition of "sandwich", all you're doing is regurgitating your own subjective associations with the word. that's because subjective usage is the root of the definition of a term like "sandwich". is a hot dog a sandwich? well, you might confuse some people if you called a hot dog in a hot dog bun a "hot dog sandwich", but it's not that much of a stretch of the usage. similarly, you might confuse some people by calling a sliced hot dog between two flat slices of bread a "hot dog", but it's also not so far from conventional usage as to be incomprehensible. people might think you're weird for calling it that, but not that you don't know what words mean.

however, there's nothing preventing that implicit definition from changing other than convention. if the phrase "hot dog sandwich" caught on, whether through mass culture or advertising or whatever, fast forward 20 years; people who were infants and young children at the time, who learned "hot dog sandwich" as the commonly used term, are now becoming adults and beginning to exert their influence on society. ask them if a hot dog is a sandwich, and they'd probably say, of course it's a fucking sandwich, it says sandwich in the name, doesn't it?

stupid frog said:
why they put torta means sandwich??????? because is not true almost in all latin countries torta means cake so this should be the first meaning on this page
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this is a perfect example of this phenomenon at work. words are whatever a society agrees on. it's not postmodern, it's not the erosion of meaning, or anything like that. culture - which is in constant flux - is the source of language; that's how humans have always worked. ask a Brit what a chip is, or a Canadian what college is. should we be concerned that other cultures that share our language have totally different uses for certain words? as long as you can properly convey your meaning, what's there to fret about?
 
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Ultrapenguin said:
I don't like this ruling, even food is starting to slide into the morass of postmodernist haze where words mean nothing.

Anything that's encased in bread is a sandwich?
Are pigs in a blanket a sandwich? Are crepes a sandwich? Are croquettes a sandwich? We now live in a world where you could eat a hot pocket and tell people "hold on, I'm eating a sandwich" and be legally correct.

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I do like this ruling. Everything is now a sandwich. Are you just gonna start sandwich shamming all sandwiches now?
 
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innocent jogger said:
This, outside of the tech-related because those will always take first place, may be the most autistic thread I have read on the Kiwi Farms yet. Not saying that as a compliment OR an insult, just sayin'...
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 CLEARLY you weren't here, or don't remember the great cheese wars of 2023 then. This is a mild skirmish comparatively. Either way, this whole thing is absolutely pointless and hilarious at the same time.
reptile baht spaniard rid said:
If I tell that bitch to bring me a sandwich and I get a fucking taco someone’s getting some unscheduled mascara.
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Harvey Danger said:
He's the one doing the hard work Americans just won't do, i.e. keeping Mexican immigrants from overrunning the place. When your local shopping center starts looking like a barrio, don't go crying to him.

He probably isn't. In fact, that's a stronger argument against the taco place than the sandwich argument: the development planning wanted to bring more generally-preferred food choices to the area, not niche cuisine options like Mexican. No matter how common Mexican cuisine might be in border states, it's still rare up in Indiana.

I'll eat at any random sub shop, but I won't go into a Taco Bell unless I'm in the mood (rarely). Dropping a taco place in a specific area may make the intended audience pass by the plaza and look for a more generically appealing option, especially if it's a family or group. Again, with no other information, I'd rather give the local planners the benefit of the doubt.
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Ok, all the semantics aside, there is a world of difference between a run-of-the-mill goyslop slinging Taco Bell, and an actual nice sit-down or even quick-serve Mexican restaurant. And who the fuck doesn't like tacos?!?!?! If someone is that insecure about their place in the world that a local Mexican joint shatters their sense of well-being, they have more issues than they think. Birria tacos are to die for! Especially if it's from an old Señorita who's using her own recipe passed down through the generations.

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Lone MacReady II said:
These are Americanda's "priorities" as the nation burns in feces-colored fire. Iudea Delenda Est. A True Banana Republic.
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If the world wasn't in a bad place now, I'd be able to laugh at this. I still CAN, I'm just stunned at the absurdity of this. Are we sure this isn't a skit or a joke?
 
AnimeGirlConnoisseur said:
You people have gotten to eight pages of discussion and yet nobody has mentioned the cube rule? That's all we need to classify food with a starch exterior/base and a non-starch filling/topping.
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The only cube rule I follow is TIME CUBE

EARTH HAS 4 CORNER. SIMULTANEOUS 4 DAY TIME CUBE. IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION. 4 CORNER DAYS, CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH. No 1 Day God. FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA IS " BULL SHIT " . EVIL EDUCATORS block and suppress www.timecube.com You are educated evil, and might have to KILL the EVIL ONE teaching educators before you can learn that 4-corner days actually exist - but all CUBE TRUTH denied . Dumb ass educator fear me and hide from debate
 
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