Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Aussiemandeus @aussie.zone 1 day ago

How many bites are in a sandwich?

Typical two pieces of bread with something inside.

I think 9 bites, unfortunately with only one bite in the centre being crustless.

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Americans really will use any measurement before touching the metric system
- It's true.
- Just like the misattributed Churchill quote :
  
  You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they tried everything else.
- We'll make an exception this time 👩‍⚖️
- ... what would the metric unit be? 🤔
  
  The Sandwich
12:

Corner bite - a balance of crust and content, a display of delayed gratification

Good bite - because you did so well delaying your gratification

Corner bite - because you hope the richness of The Good Bite will transfer somewhat

Navigating the last corner:

Rotate for a heavily crust>content corner bite - the build up

Deliberately smaller, last of the crust bite - the set up

Last Good Bite - smaller than The Good Bite but, equally, aren't you clever

X 2
- Cut your sandwich into triangles. This gives you 4x good bites & 8x corner bites without size differences.
Zero, you take bites, the sandwich never has any.
- ☝️🤓
- If someone left a bite in my sandwich I'd be very upset.
Bread comes in too many different shapes and sizes for this to have a universal answer.
I didn't know sandwiches can bite
Well, there are 8 bits in a byte, so there must be 8 bites in a sammich, obviously.
- Checks out, at least if you represent the string "sandwich" in ASCII.
  
  in 8-bit ascii
- That's a 64 bits sammich.
  
  Each bit is an ingredient.
  
  2 bits bread
  
  1 bit ham
  
  1 bit cheese
  
  1 bit lettuce
  
  1 bit tomato
  
  1 bit pickles
  
  1 bit mayonnaise
  
  So when you divide it all out, it's only 8 bites.
One
It would appear to be approximately 2,982,609 bytes.
- I prefer my sandwich tar.xz compressed over .zip
I normally do a ton of nibbles. What's the conversion rate of nibbles to bites? And are chomps just a US unit of measurement?
- A nibble, four bits, is half a byte, eight bits.
  
  Doing everything to dogde the metric system 🇺🇸🦅
- All units that use body parts are US ones.
  
  How many foreskins is that?
Bro, nibble the crust first, then there are so many glorious crustless bites. Or just cut it off.
I quite like the crust, but could you not slice the crust off? That would likely improve the bread to crust ratio considerably.
- I like crust too though
From now on, 25. I actually wish there was bread that had the dividing lines
What if the bread is... Not square?
All of them.

I'm sorry.
(Ingredients-1)² +2
9-12
- How can there be -3 bites in a sandwich?
  
  You eat the sandwich in 9 bites. Then you vomit back up the sandwich plus 12 bites of the last thing you ate
  
  You dropped it or it was stolen by a magpie or gull before you finished.
- I would agree with this. The rational part of me likes to try and eat a sandwich in a 3x3 grid of bites, right-to-left, working my way downward.
  
  But, I'm a wacky, inconsistent li'l bitch, so it almost never works out that way. But, I don't think I ever exceed 12 bites. That's a pretty solid ballpark range.
Typical two pieces of bread with something inside.

A Dagwood sandwich would qualify, so there's probably some variation there.
It depends on the size of your mouth, the size of bite you take, and the size of the sandwich. But if you'd cared about that you'd have realized it's a meaningless question before embarrassing yourself by asking here. So instead I'll you a meaningless answer: 37 ⅚
- Don't think OP has embarrassed themselves.

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