Pointless debate: Sandwiches vs. Baguettes

[Darkst4r]

Baguettes are not a standard size. The word "baguette" doesn't mean it has to be 3feet long by default to be able to call it a baguette. Therefore if you cut a baguette in half you do have 2 baguettes , only smaller than the original.

If I cut a baguette in half and gave half to someone , we would both have a baguette.

If it were not 2 baguettes I wouldn't be able to give one away.

EDIT : If I cut it in half lengthways I think you could call it half a baguette

 

[Explicit]

But if I have a piece of pie and I cut that in half do I not have two pieces of pie?

Keyword in bold

Two pieces of one item

 

[The Halk]

If you have some pie, and you cut that in half and put each on a separate plate, you have two lots of some pie.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

The Law of the Conservation of Energy is both aroused and confused my this thread.

 

[Explicit]

If you have some pie, and you cut that in half and put each on a separate plate, you have two lots of some pie.

Still part of one pie, it's just been cut into pieces.

So, you have a piece of pie.

 

[frying_pan_cat]

What about worms ? If you cut a worm in half don't both halves grow into separate worms ?

If you cut it at the right bit then one piece can grow into a worm again but the other piece dies iirc from a discussion in a-level biology

 

[The Halk]

Still part of one pie, it's just been cut into pieces.

So, you have a piece of pie.

You could have started with 10 pies, or 1/4 of a pie.

Let me put it slightly differently.

You have one plate with some pie on it - a plate of pie.
You then cut it into two parts and put the other part on a second plate.

You now have two plates of pie.

You take one baguette, and you cut it in half. You put each along side a plate of soup. You have two "soup and baguette".

 

[Azagoth]

Who gives a ****?

 

[The Halk]

It's a pointless debate, if you don't care don't read the thread.

 

[Janesy B]

Who gives a ****?

It's a VERY important question.

 

[Efour]

If you had a delicious worm sandwich and cut it in half what happens then ?

 

[y2viks]

I don't even talk with Fishfingers about this sort of stuff

 

[Explicit]

You could have started with 10 pies, or 1/4 of a pie.

Let me put it slightly differently.

You have one plate with some pie on it - a plate of pie.
You then cut it into two parts and put the other part on a second plate.

You now have two plates of pie.

You take one baguette, and you cut it in half. You put each along side a plate of soup. You have two "soup and baguette".

But in each case a new item does not come into existence, it is still a segment/slice/piece/etc of the original.

It's all to do with ambiguity/explicitness in the way we speak.

Technically, a menu item listed as "soup and baguette" should give you soup with a whole length of baguette. Otherwise, it should say "soup and a slice of baguette".

Bottom line:

Apparently, if you cut a baguette into 2, it becomes 2 baguettes!

Again, it's just ambiguity in speach. It's technically 2 slices/pieces of a baguette.

 

[arknor]

Someone I know - I can't remember who - says that two slices of bread, with filling, when sliced in half is "two sandwiches".

The baguette one is easier, it's simply half a baguette.

its 2 baguettes if they both have different fillings

 

[The Halk]

Technically, a menu item listed as "soup and baguette" should give you soup with a whole length of baguette. Otherwise, it should say "soup and a slice of baguette".

What if you asked for toast and scrambled egg... and they came back with toast and one single egg scrambled. You would expect more than that.

You're right though it is about ambiguities of speech.

 

[Van Hellseek]

A sandwich cut in half is two sandwiches.

I bought a sandwich from the co-op and the label read "50% extra free - Three sandwiches for the price of two".

Case closed.

 

[Tefal]

Kill the OP and have a festival to celebrate.