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For all your talk of constructing a less racist definition of sandwich, perhaps you should consider the inherent linguistic colonialism of enforcing your words and definitions upon food cultures that don't have them and don't need them. It's a classic colonialist move: interpreting, defining, and ordering a culture along more familiar lines in order to master it, while marginalizing its traditional meanings and values. Calling a taco a sandwich is a grotesque deformation of meaning and is an act of semiotic violence against traditional, non-euro food cultures.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Wouldn't adopting the term sandwich blanket across cultures be in and of itself cultural appropriation? Perhaps, but 1., I think the tendency is, as shown in this thread, for the sandwich culture to impose itself upon other cultures, rather than them adopting the sandwich, and 2. even if it were cultural appropriation then historical power relationships would suggest that this appropriation is a tool of survival, of historical justice. And really I think one of my issues is the sandwich's claim to universality -- as if its vagueness is somehow its greatness, it's indeterminacy, a triumph.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:34
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Popular Thug Drink you did not define the upper boundary limits of the distance between the two slices of bread. Thus any food objects that intersect the line drawn between any two slices of bread constitutes a sandwich. Congrats, you've made sandwiches of the world and of us all.
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Nov 10, 2015 05:34
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Is a club sandwich, because it itself is a sandwich, while containing two other sandwiches (the middle bread pulling double duty as top and bottom, a versatile slice, that one) therefore three sandwiches? Does this make ordering a single club sandwich impossible, as one contains three, yet if you order three club sandwiches you get nine? We need a mathematician to explain what kind of number system counts by 
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Nov 10, 2015 06:11
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