tallchris wrote: My wife and I once had a very long discussion about "is a hotdog a sandwich" and we decided that a sandwich requires two pieces of bread that are not connected.

So a quesadilla is a sandwich, but a hotdog is a taco.

uglysound wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:37 pm Overly-milky cereal is far less gross than claiming "damp" is the ideal state of cereal.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:05 am Cereal isn't a soup. A soup is cooked together, at least in part of its making.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:05 am Cereal isn't a soup. A soup is cooked together, at least in part of its making. I guess you could argue that porridge is a soup.

A sandwich requires two or more slices of bread, with fillings. A hot dog is not a sandwich. A burger is not a sandwich (slices of bread =/= halved buns).

Barm > Bap > Roll > Bun. That's the descending order of correct description.

A cob is bigger, and can't be confused with any of the above.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:25 am Is there a difference between oatmeal and porridge? I always took the former as an Americanisation of the latter, but maybe it isn't?

DaveA wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:12 pm Thread in which several FMs own up to having wildly idiosyncratic concepts of what regular food items entail.