Americans really will use any measurement before touching the metric system
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It's true.
Just like the misattributed Churchill quote :
You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they tried everything else.
That's a bit rich coming from the British.
Well it's a misattributed quote, so it doesn't actually originate with Churchill
... what would the metric unit be? 🤔
honestly number of bites in a sandwich sounds like a volume measurement, so cubic centimeters or litres would be metric units used for this
We'll make an exception this time 👩⚖️
Well, there are 8 bits in a byte, so there must be 8 bites in a sammich, obviously.
That's a 64 bits sammich.
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.
Checks out, at least if you represent the string "sandwich" in ASCII.
in 8-bit ascii
Zero, you take bites, the sandwich never has any.
If someone left a bite in my sandwich I'd be very upset.
☝️🤓
And where am I taking them from, smarty pants?
The same place your lap goes when you stand up
Bro, nibble the crust first, then there are so many glorious crustless bites. Or just cut it off.
I quite like the crust, but could you not slice the crust off? That would likely improve the bread to crust ratio considerably.
I like crust too though
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?
A nibble, four bits, is half a byte, eight bits.
Doing everything to dogde the metric system 🇺🇸🦅
The Internet was never the same after Europe adopted the 10-bit metric byte.
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.
All units that use body parts are US ones.
One
How big are your bites? The number of bites a sandwich has depends on their size.
Normal i think.
My wife is 12 to 15 bites though
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.
Bread comes in too many different shapes and sizes for this to have a universal answer.
All of them.
I'm sorry.
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
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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
Cut your sandwich into triangles. This gives you 4x good bites & 8x corner bites without size differences.
(Ingredients-1)^2^ +2
I can finish in 5, 4 if I put in a little effort, 2 if I really need to.
9-12
How can there be -3 bites in a sandwich?
You dropped it or it was stolen by a magpie or gull before you finished.
You eat the sandwich in 9 bites. Then you vomit back up the sandwich plus 12 bites of the last thing you ate
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.
What if the bread is... Not square?
From now on, 25. I actually wish there was bread that had the dividing lines