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Question: How many?  (Voting closed: Friday, April 28, 2006, 20:21:19)
Just ONE - 20 (50%)
It's obviously TWO - 20 (50%)
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Ben Wah Balls

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« Reply #30 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:07:13 »

Now that's defiitely 3 sandwiches not one sandwich.
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« Reply #31 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:09:05 »

This is easily the best thread the TEF has seen in ages.
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« Reply #32 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:11:23 »

It's certainly capturing the imagination of our members, we're clearly all quite passionate about our views on this matter!
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« Reply #33 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:12:53 »

a sandwich is a sandwich, no matter how many pieces you cut it into....its a sandwich
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« Reply #34 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:16:56 »

Indeed DV, a pizza, for example, is still A pizza regardless of how many slices it's cut into, the same applies to a sandwich, another bread based snack!
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« Reply #35 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:21:50 »

A pizza is different, it tends to be round so if you take a slice out it'll have bits missing. Not so with a sandwich.
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« Reply #36 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:22:46 »

Pizzas are a whole different matter.  A matter easily cleared up however.  Unlike sandwiches, pizzas are no longer called pizzas once they are cut and removed from the rest of the pizza, they are called slices.  Hmm, when does the remaining pizza become a slice? When it is <= semi-circle perhaps?
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« Reply #37 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:23:54 »

But you could cut a few small round pieces out of a pizza, would that make them pizzas in their own right, or simply pieces of one pizza?
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« Reply #38 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 14:23:55 »

Quote from: "santini"
Supermarkets sell them in packs of 2 or 3 ... not 1 or 1 1/2.
Q.E.D.
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Cogito ergo sum.
its all a marketing ploy to make you think you're getting more sandwich's though, and many seem to have fallen for it.

let's take this matter to the advertising standards board, no longer can the falsification of sandwich quantities continue.
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« Reply #39 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 16:03:27 »

Quote from: "Rossi"
Pizzas are a whole different matter.  A matter easily cleared up however.  Unlike sandwiches, pizzas are no longer called pizzas once they are cut and removed from the rest of the pizza, they are called slices.  Hmm, when does the remaining pizza become a slice? When it is <= semi-circle perhaps?


I cannot agree with the notion of a slice of pizza.  

My recollection of O level geometry is that it would be better described as a "sector of pizza" because a sector is defined as "A part of the interior of a circle bounded by two radii and an arc".  Check out this link

http://www.mathwords.com/s/sector_of_a_circle.htm

and you will clearly see that a typical portion of pizza (of fthe round form before anyone gets picky and shows a picture of a square or rectangular pizza) should be called a sector not a slice. :advercool:
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« Reply #40 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 17:07:10 »

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and you will clearly see that a typical portion of pizza (of fthe round form before anyone gets picky and shows a picture of a square or rectangular pizza) should be called a sector not a slice. :advercool:
When you play Trivial Pursuit you call the sector-shaped-pieces wedges don't you. So should it be a wedge of pizza  ...  especially if its deep pan?? Wink
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« Reply #41 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 17:09:10 »

If you take one slice of Hovis....bung a sausage in it and wrap the bread around, is it a sandwich or a wrap?
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« Reply #42 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 17:17:15 »

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If you take one slice of Hovis....bung a sausage in it and wrap the bread around, is it a sandwich or a wrap?


Only 1 slice of bread? Then it's only HALF a sandwich. Wrapped in an unconventional way.

On the first picture there are quite clearly 2 HALVES of ONE sandwich.

We simply abbrieviate this when using casual vernacular: 'giss'a sarnie, Bob.'
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« Reply #43 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 17:20:31 »

On a slightly unrelated but just-as-interesting note:

Do you say:

a) "How many beers have you drunk today, Jurgen?"   (incorrect)

or

b) "How much beer have you drunk today, Petulia?"   (correct)
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« Reply #44 on: Monday, May 1, 2006, 17:23:56 »

Indeed, Jurgen doesn't drink beer.
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