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All of these sandwich definitions are moot unless officially approved by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who is dead.Wikipedia posted:The first written usage of the English word appeared in Edward Gibbon's journal, in longhand, referring to "bits of cold meat" as a "Sandwich".[13] It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order "the same as Sandwich!"[6][7] It is commonly said that Lord Sandwich was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue playing cards, particularly cribbage, while eating, without using a fork, and without getting his cards greasy from eating meat with his bare hands.[6] The two pieces of bread are key at the very least, and all this talk about dropping the requirement is basically heresy.
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Jack of Hearts posted:Are Oreos a sandwich? Related: what is the minimal size at which a foodstuff can attain sandwichicity? Oreos contain no bread, and can not be regarded as sandwiches. Although the Oreo sandwiches the cream between two cookies, it's a matter of considering the materials involved rather than making the mistake of only taking basic formation into account. Anyone stubbornly insisting that a cookie sufficiently meets the definition of bread is a charlatan and I won't even engage with that argument. The formation of a sandwich has no limit beyond the hard reality of particle physics, but coming up with hard definitions at such a scale becomes difficult. Despite naysayers on the first page, I think the literalist sandwich definition of 2 slices of bread + meat at least serves as a foundation for greater sandwich extrapolation, so the smallest sandwich would therefore be whatever can be the smallest possible "meat" sandwiched between the smallest possible "bread." Bread by definition must contain, as a minimum, flour and water. Meat is more difficult, since you have a potential argument about whether or not the muscular structure of any given animal must be taken into account or whether a mixture of the basic compounds of meat will suffice. If the compounds will suffice, the smallest possible sandwich is then 2 compounds of 1 flour molecule + 1 water molecule, then 1 meat compound between them. Though more of an academic pursuit, such microsandwiches nonetheless fit the criteria.
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