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KJ ([personal profile] owlmoose) wrote2006-01-31 12:10 am

Late in the evening

Past midnight and T isn't home yet. He must be liking his job.

Still loving the Brahms. Loving it even more now that singing isn't sending me into copious coughing fits (just two during the three-hour rehersal). I guess that means the cold is almost gone. About time! After chorus I grabbed dinner with D & P, and we got into a discussion about the definition of "sandwich". Specifically, we were trying to decide whether a hamburger is sandwich. At the basic core of the definition, I think you have to say yes -- food between two pieces of bread is a sandwich, yes? But P pointed out that if you asked someone to get you a burger by referring to it as a " sandwich", they would likely be confused. Maybe a burger fits the textbook definition of sandwich, but no one really calls it that. So that lead us into trying to come up with the characteristics that would differentiate a burger from a sandwich. In the end, we decided that the patty form factor for the meat (or whatever -- one needs to account for veggie burgers, after all) is the key distinction. P still wouldn't concede that my fried chicken breast on a bun was a "sandwich", though, although eventually he decided to agree that it isn't a burger. I think he wanted a third term, but we couldn't come up with one.

It's fun, having pedantic friends. (I'm not kidding. I really do think that. All kinds of wacky discussions result. I enjoy them.)

Scratch that first line -- he just walked in. And a cat walked out. Damn; I thought they were past the escaping phase. Too much to hope for, I guess. At least they've gotten less aggressive about it.

The Tuesday song game will go up at 9:30am PST or thereabouts.

[identity profile] peachespig.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo, let's be pedantic! I'm pretty sure I've seen on menus burger-like items containing chicken, called a grilled chicken sandwitch. Now I could be remembering wrong, but I am pretty sure these things were on buns, not normal bread, so that can't be the dintinction. I'm really not sure what makes a burger - maybe the form factor, as you said, but that grilled chicken sandwitch came pretty close. Hmmm....

Nice new layout, by the way!

[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I've seen on menus burger-like items containing chicken, called a grilled chicken sandwitch. Now I could be remembering wrong, but I am pretty sure these things were on buns, not normal bread, so that can't be the dintinction.

This is the kind of sandwich I was eating last night -- fried chicken breast on a hamburger bun. On some menus, these types of sandwiches are listed in the burger section, but at this particular restaurant it was listed with the sandwichs, and burgers had their own separate section.

I think the main difference between these sandwiches and burgers is the meat being ground and formed into a patty shape. But, as others have mentioned, this leaves us with gray area regarding other ground meat sandwiches -- meat loaf, spam, sausage. I'm not sure what the difference is here.

[identity profile] owlmoose.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice new layout, by the way!

Thanks. :) I decided it was time for a change. And then I stumbled across the matching butterfly icon and knew it was fate...