[mazelife]

This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit the existence of an eighth category... that is to say the inverse of the calzone, which would be "starch surrounded on all sides by a non-starch"? An anti-calzone, if you will. Seems rather rare, but not impossible (e.g. turkey with stuffing).

[gagege]

Once, while working in a pizza place I theorized the creation of what I like to call the Dyson Pizza. Sauce, cheese, and toppings completely encircling a sphere of bread.

[alanbernstein]

I have a dream of a spherical creme brulee, which presumably can only be cooked in zero gravity.

[mikeash]

It’s appropriate that such a thing could only be baked in space.

[andrewflnr]

It's suddenly obvious that not only could this be baked in space, it absolutely will be. This will be a thing when space tourism comes online. I only hope they still call it a Dyson pizza.

[mikeash]

Quick, someone tell Elon Musk.

[_nalply]

The best would be a hollow sphere so that the crust is thin!

[Papirola]

can you do a pizza Klein bottle?

[skykooler]

Another example would be a glazed donut (starch surrounded by sugar).

[fanf2]

But what if it is a donut that is both filled and glazed? Is the glaze just on top or all the way round?

What does a beef Wellington count as? It has multiple nested layers... what if you made a turducken and wrapped each bird in a flatbread of some kind, before stuffing it in a larger bird?

[CiPHPerCoder]

Beef Wellington is in the same class as calzones. Possibly as a cascade thereof.

[delecti]

Doesn't the toroidal topology of a donut mean that both the starch and sugar are simultaneously surrounding each other?

[luminiferous]

Some of the post's salad examples (spaghetti, poutine) could be interpreted as starch surrounded by non-starch. Thus I believe the rule would still consider turkey with stuffing to be a salad.

[tiglionabbit]

It’s not a salad if it’s a single cohesive unit. If you chopped it up, it could pass as a “turkey salad” I guess, in the sense of a potato salad, but that would still be a stretch.

[CoolGuySteve]

Yes, Spaghetti is misclassified as "Salad". It is a solid starch entity where if you sampled any part of the cube, you would get some starch. A loaf of bread, a baked potato, etc are all anti-calzones.

[ken]

https://www.creationsbykara.com/easy-bacon-wrapped-bread-bit...

[Izkata]

I believe that fits the last one, below the main classifications - "salad", where the starch is mixed in with the non-starch instead of wrapping it.

[dpflug]

I believe biscuits and gravy would qualify by that measure. There's a negligible amount of starch in the gravy, but it's largely fat.

[mesozoic]

But what if you take that turkey then bread it and fry it?

[curuinor]

call em' gallatines

[FakeComments]

I think co-calzone is probably most sensible.

Though the whole topic is a mess: an open-faced sandwich suddenly is a self-dual food.

[AaronFriel]

Self duals are entirely reasonable! A unified theory of food would be incomplete if we excluded such beautiful symmetries.

[andybak]

So where are we heading?

It seems we might slip from group theory to category theory. At which point we are surely describing the structure of meta-sandwiches (in that they sandwich various definitions of sandwichness between each other)

[AaronFriel]

I think you're onto something, after all burritos are just endofunctors in the category of monoids.

[wtfrmyinitials]

So called "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches.

[DrScump]

Projected into two dimensions, they are.