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mauvehaus

I'm not sure if this is going to forestall or foment heated discussion about what is or isn't a sandwich, but it's certainly an attempt to codify what constitutes sandwichness:

https://cuberule.com/

  • j-kent

    There’s no such thing as a sandwich (phylogenetically)

    • tantalor

      There's no such thing as phylogeny (sandwichly)

    • handsclean

      Sure there is, you just need to look at the evolution of language, not DNA. The common ancestor is a meal eaten by the Earl of Sandwich in the 1760s, “salt beef between two slices of toasted bread”.

  • foobarian

    We would be remiss not to bring up the sandwich alignment chart:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentCharts/comments/83l9jy/san...

    • bell-cot

      Yet even their "Anarchist" (lower right) square has a rectangular item of food, with a starchy, finger-friendly exterior around a less starchy & finger-friendly interior.

      Vs. a chart with chocolate-covered cherries, ceiling tiles, and such...

      • entropicdrifter

        Agreed. One point of contention I've seen before is the question of whether a piece of fried chicken with breading is a sandwich. Personally I argue that it is not, because the batter is cooked for the first time on the chicken itself. The starchy finger-friendly exterior should be fully edible before the construction of a sandwich.

        You could argue, however, that a piece of fried chicken with breading is technically a meat bun.

        • Loughla

          I mean, it really depends on the breading, though. Panko, for example, could be already cooked before breading the chicken.

          So, I guess a flour breaded fried chicken could be a ravioli whereas a panko breaded fried chicken could be a sandwich.

          • bell-cot

            I will proclaim that the finger-friendly exterior is important, but the order in which the outside vs. contents are added/cooked/finished/whatever is not.

            So well-breaded chicken is. Likewise a two-crusted pie. But a ravioli is not a sandwich.

    • capableweb

      It is brought up on the "Cube Rule" page, but the page contains way more detail than so. If you haven't gone through it before, I recommend you do so.

  • cool_dude85

    I subscribe to the fringe "four foods theory":

    1) Substance - Indivisible, elemental food. Example: Vanilla ice cream, no toppings

    2) Pizza - Monobreadular, arranged. Example: Nigiri sushi

    3) Sandwich - Multibreadular, arranged. Example: Big Mac

    4) Salad - Separable, not arranged. Example: Salad with croutons

    • JohnFen

      What is lasagna? It doesn't seem to easily fit in any of those categories, although it's clearly not a "substance".

  • sonicrocketman

    Sandwiches are but one part of the equation! For full context see the taxonomic definition of Sandwich (domain Catino, kingdom Cincta).

    https://iifrp.org/rfc/RFC-5.html

    (disclaimer, I wrote this spec)

  • Keegs

    I’m a big fan of the cube rule except for its salad category. The idea that a frittata and a bowl of tomato soup are equivalent is hard to swallow (pun intended).

  • dylan604

    when has any comment posted publicly to the internet forestalled heated discussion?

  • boringg

    hot dogs and burritos are sandwiches right?

    • gen220

      All according to cube rule:

      Hot dogs are categorically tacos.

      Burritos typically begin life as a "calzone", but experience most of their brief lives through the lens of a "soup/salad in a bread bowl".

      Sometimes people prefer to fold a burrito into the "sushi" pattern. Depends on your mental image of a burrito.

    • kzrdude

      A burrito is a calzone in the cube rule system, but I'd rather rename that class to burrito.

carlosjobim

Fun fact: Some of the sandwiches seem to be rotating in the opposite direction. This is due to an optical illusion called the "Silhouette Illusion" [0], first discovered in 2003. If you focus hard on a sandwich and blur your eyes slightly, you can make it change which direction it rotates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer

  • doctoboggan

    I am assuming you are joking but I see other people responding as if you aren't.

    This isn't true as the spinning dancer illusion only works on silhouettes and not full color images.

    • oceanplexian

      I squinted at the sandwiches trying to reverse their direction like an idiot. Guessing I’m not the only one.

    • JKCalhoun

      The dancer illusion is as though you are observing the dancer from a long distance away through a telescope of some sort where things like her hands do not appear to vary in relative size as she turns and they become nearer/farther from us.

    • StrictDabbler

      It also works on translucent objects and in a different form on the mask illusion, where a rotation depends on whether you believe the mask is bent away from or toward you.

      Basically anytime that depth information is obscured.

  • jon889

    I can't see how this is correct. The spinning dancer works because there's no details on it.

vanadium

Need more old-school absurdity like this on the web these days.

  • samstave

    They need a BLINK tag version so as it rotates, it also blinks - or throws confetti or sparks.

geepytee

Imagine opening Uber Eats and looking for a restaurant to order from. You are scrolling and they all look the same, but suddenly... What is that? That can't be right, this one has spinning pics of all the food they serve? HECK YEAH I'm ordering from that one

floatinglotus

Why are VCs not backing more projects like this?

qlm

Twitter account of the admin: https://twitter.com/notabigjerk

braingenious

To lay this to rest:

Should a tear occur such that the bread around a hot dog separates into two discrete pieces, it is then a sandwich. Therefore a hot dog is a potential sandwich in the same way that an egg is a potential chicken.

bell-cot

Almost like the old Hamster Dance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance ) has been reincarnated...

boringg

Amazing - why aren't there any burritos in the rotating sandwich list?

Also you should create a bunch of rotating sandwich NFTs - if you went back two years you could a millionaire off those NFT sales.

WesolyKubeczek

The spirit of zombo.com is alive!

lagrange77

Sandwiches 10 and 25 rotate in the wrong direction, please fix ASAP!!

teddyh

28 rotating to the right, and three to the left.

a_shovel

Two word title, creator's contact info, content, end. The platonic ideal of a single-purpose website. It's beautiful.

The backend isn't quite so clean. It has a bunch of superfluous Wordpress template cruft, even some trackers my ad blocker had to catch. Still, I like it overall.

TaurenHunter

Are these sandwiches AI generated?

praash

This is a good website to demonstrate the Pulfrich effect! Squint your right eye or cover it with sunglasses, and watch the magical sandwiches pop out of your screen.

I really wish online stores utilized this to convey dimensions and material texture better.

sphars

Thank you, now I'm hungry

makeworld

Even more rotating food is available at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/rotatingfood

barbazoo

I hope there'll be a collab with https://www.instagram.com/sandwichesofhistory

benwiklerOP

In case you think NeRFs don't have any useful applications

dylan604

I like how some are cleanly cut in half, while some have been half eaten. Just to keep it from feeling like it's repetitive.

naillo

Are these done with NeRFs? Feels like they are but could just be lots of photos around the objects. Curious if anyone knows.

m3kw9

This gonna pivot into sandwich social network

pfoof

That's why I pay for the internet

djha-skin

Reminds me of

  * badgerbadgerbadger

  * bad.horse

  * ascii star wars
Also makes me hungry.
_nalply

These are all gifs. No weird technical trickery at all. But it's well presented.

nurettin

I thought it was going to be some animation: spin css, but it is just a bunch of gifs.

mikeflynn

This website needs a Little Luca Ultimate club sandwich almost as much as I do.

ankaAr

Sir, I come to make a complain about no milanesa sandwich.

I hope this issue will be fixed soon.

thunky

It would be nice if restaurants used this technique for their menus.

SeanAnderson

...but there's a rotating hotdog. That's not a sandwich.

  • cyrialize

    I agree. People always talk about technicalities, ingredients, structure, etc. in this argument.

    For me, the main reason why a hotdog isn't a sandwich is that you can't use the two interchangeably. I would never go up to a hotdog stand and ask for a sandwich.

    • elpocko

      Right. That's why hotdogs are not even food, or organic matter. I would never go up to a hotdog stand and ask for organic matter.

      • jboy55

        I think hot dogs are vegetarian but not vegan. As in, the stuff in a hotdog may or may not require the killing of the animal.

  • blowski
  • jaywalk

    Please keep political flamethrowing off HN.

    (Although I agree)

    • electrondood

      A sandwich is not an ontological category and should be eradicated.

      • dweinus

        Agreed, please send me all of the hotdogs for safe disposal. Also bratwursts, especially bratwursts

justaj

Is anyone elses CPU almost melting when this page is opened?

lxm

What's the timeline for iOS/Android native apps?

wsdookadr

a billion times better than facebook/instagram/pinterest. exactly how it should be.

insane_dreamer

What's a hot dog doing there?

silksowed

it might be pastrami on rye time!

mdrzn

Is there an API for this?

zwieback

Can we have a chip butty?

papa2034

Thanks now I’m hungry.

chandan_maruthi

U all just hungry?

tkanarsky

are these NeRF captures? looks pretty good!

haunter

Hot dog and gyros. Yeah, well about those...

petodo

no open sandwich? meh, this seems very US centric

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