(And thus perfectly acceptable to eat for lunch)
Yes, and?
Nordic (or Finnish/Swedish at least) “sandwich cake”.
Can’t believe this isn’t already here…
Sandwich cake is already a term that means the same thing as layer cake. The classic combination of two layers of Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and whipped cream in between is called a Victoria Sandwich. Anyone arguing that a layer cake isn’t a sandwich is just illiterate, not a defender of semantic specificity.
I’ve never heard of anyone putting jelly/jam on cake and now I want to try it.
My spouse makes one that way that everyone we know goes wild about. Literally just yellow cake, cooked strawberries, and homemade whipped cream. We’re both baffled by how popular it is, but I guess the Midwest isn’t used to real whipped cream.
Once could, if so inclined, put cake between two slices of bread. It’d be hard to argue that’s not a sandwich.
Cereal is soup
More importantly than having bread on the outside is being handheld.
Yes, you can eat anything with your hands, but cake is typically a fork food.
In my house most baked goods are eaten without a fork, one small sliver/square at a time, while standing at the counter and repeatedly saying, “I’m just going to have one small bite.”
Bread pudding is a brown sugar sandwitch.
If cake is a sandwich then a loaf of sliced bread is a sandwich.
It’s a stack of bread sandwiches- where the number of sandwiches is:
total number of slices / 3
Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake
I feel like that’s more a case for converging evolution than relationship. That actually makes this easier to deal with though.
Is that the definition of a sandwich, or is there something about ‘sanwhich’ that transcends its constituent parts? Could ‘sandwich’ be a cluster of different properties that, when considered as a whole, become ‘sandwhich’? I think to get to the heart of this ‘sandwhich’ question, we need not look at the sandwhich but instead at ‘cake’. What is ‘cake’ and do those propertie exclude sandwhich? What common aspects do cake and sandwhich have, and are both of those elements essential?
Words aren’t isomorphic to their dictionary definitions—words had commonly-accepted meanings long before the existence of dictionaries. Dictionary definitions are just an attempt to come up with a heuristic for identifying things as instances of the term in question, but they’re never perfect—and the real-world usage is ontologically prior.
If the dictionary definition of sandwich fails to distinguish cakes from sandwiches, it’s just an imperfect definition (like all definitions are)—and we can leave it at that.
Alright, so is a cake a sandwich?
