Food – addshore

If you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwiches

October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 by addshore

A few years ago, I asked a similarly silly question about lasagne to a group of people I know and summarized their responses. This time I’m bored on a coach, so asked 30–40 people the question “If you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwiches”.

In this post, I’ll occasionally refer to individuals by 2 letter initials to keep their personal sandwich views mostly private, while still allowing for a good laugh and for them to follow the analysis.

A few people that have ended up in both lasagne and sandwich groups noticed what I was doing and started reminiscing about the lasagne topic, shout out to HD, GC & LM…

From the provided opinions, there are several distinct groupings based on the perspectives shared.

But to introduce the problem, let’s take a look at this sandwich platter I found online, and how many sandwiches people think it delivers.

If you bake 2 lasagnes, and stack them, do you have 1 or 2 lasagnes?

March 13, 2021March 10, 2021 by addshore

This is the question that I asked a group of around 50 people this evening as part of a food for thought exercise. 37 replied before I decided to write this blog post, and here is a quick summary…

The question was “If you bake 2 lasagnes, and then put one on top of the other, do you have 1 or 2 lasagnes?”

The answers ranged dramatically, and the group was fairly divided, but slightly leaning toward an answer of 1, with ~24 saying that you have 1 lasagne, and ~10 saying 2 lasagnes. Some of the answers were a bit vague and hard to stick into one of these categories.