Cube rule

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BaronVonMunchhausen@kbin.social · 14 pts · 3y (5 replies)
buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 5 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Pumpkin pie is toast but key lime pie is quiche? Madness

Eleanor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It is referring to only one slice of pumpkin pie and not a whole pie. A whole pumpkin pie would also be a quiche. Likewise, a single slice of key lime pie would be toast.

takelgryph@pawb.social · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

This would imply that a single slice of quiche would itself become toast. I don't think we can apply the cube rule to pieces of food; it has to be the original prepared form before being served.

Eleanor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

Well exactly! As you correctly point out, by their logic, most quiches or calzones would become another food type as soon as they're served or a bite is taken.

I don't agree with their theory, personally, but it can be helpful to understand their reasoning even if it has an extreme structuralist bent that makes it rather distasteful.

greenEaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y
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GoldenSpamfish@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 3y

this is the least offensive cube rule example you could have posted tbh.

ergifruit@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 3y

Diogenes either having an aneurysm or busting a nut