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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amzd@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Americans really will use any measurement before touching the metric system

lohky@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

It's true.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Just like the misattributed Churchill quote :

You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they tried everything else.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's a bit rich coming from the British.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y

Well it's a misattributed quote, so it doesn't actually originate with Churchill

SorteKanin@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

... what would the metric unit be? 🤔

BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

honestly number of bites in a sandwich sounds like a volume measurement, so cubic centimeters or litres would be metric units used for this

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

We'll make an exception this time 👩‍⚖️

over_clox@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Well, there are 8 bits in a byte, so there must be 8 bites in a sammich, obviously.

InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's a 64 bits sammich.

over_clox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

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.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Checks out, at least if you represent the string "sandwich" in ASCII.

rain_worl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

in 8-bit ascii

SouthFresh@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Zero, you take bites, the sandwich never has any.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y

If someone left a bite in my sandwich I'd be very upset.

XCraftMC@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

☝️🤓

triptrapper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And where am I taking them from, smarty pants?

SouthFresh@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

The same place your lap goes when you stand up

hperrin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Bro, nibble the crust first, then there are so many glorious crustless bites. Or just cut it off.

ogmios@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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sntx@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

I prefer my sandwich tar.xz compressed over .zip

xep@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I quite like the crust, but could you not slice the crust off? That would likely improve the bread to crust ratio considerably.

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

I like crust too though

phorq@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y (7 replies)

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?

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (3 replies)

A nibble, four bits, is half a byte, eight bits.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Doing everything to dogde the metric system 🇺🇸🦅

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The Internet was never the same after Europe adopted the 10-bit metric byte.

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

This would make for an awesome Cyberpunk TTRPG setting… an evil villain letting free a virus that transforms every bit into a 10-bit metric byte. Items being unusable unless decoded, etc.

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

All units that use body parts are US ones.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How many foreskins is that?

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Your size or mine?

10_0@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

One

Resol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

How big are your bites? The number of bites a sandwich has depends on their size.

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Normal i think.

My wife is 12 to 15 bites though

Resol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

If your wife is a living sandwich, then... PLEASE don't eat her, unless you have a cloning machine and wanna eat the clone or something.

JWBananas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

All of them.

I'm sorry.

Knitwear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y

Cut your sandwich into triangles. This gives you 4x good bites & 8x corner bites without size differences.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y

Bread comes in too many different shapes and sizes for this to have a universal answer.

RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

(Ingredients-1)^2^ +2

Presi300@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

9-12

DampSquid@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

How can there be -3 bites in a sandwich?

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

You eat the sandwich in 9 bites. Then you vomit back up the sandwich plus 12 bites of the last thing you ate

Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

You dropped it or it was stolen by a magpie or gull before you finished.

mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y

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.

AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I can finish in 5, 4 if I put in a little effort, 2 if I really need to.

caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

What if the bread is... Not square?

tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
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cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

From now on, 25. I actually wish there was bread that had the dividing lines

Etterra@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Don't think OP has embarrassed themselves.