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[epilogue]

Can I still eat noodles? Are noodles a bread?

No, but they are sometimes a potato

[Jorge]

The curse operates on culinary ontology instead of science. So let's say you give up bread. If a normal person would call the thing "bread" (including flatbreads) then it’s bread and you can't eat it, even if it shares a lot in common with cake. Cake is not bread. Noodles are not bread.

Bread can be made from potato too, but if you give up bread and you try to make it out of potates the curse kicks in and it dissolves into inedible mush

[Jorge]

99% of the world lived without potatoes until the Colombian exchange and did just fine. I mean there was a ton a disease and famine but that wasn’t for lack of potatoes. Whereas all cultures have some form of bread. So, potato.

Are you suggesting they wouldn't have done just fine if they had potato instead of bread? This is unknowable

[BurtReynolds]

I could live without sandwiches.

[wease]

The only bread I would really miss is cornbread, although it could be argued it’s closer to cake.

I’d have to keep the potatoes.

[bart]

99% of the world lived without potatoes until the Colombian exchange and did just fine. I mean there was a ton a disease and famine but that wasn’t for lack of potatoes. Whereas all cultures have some form of bread. So, potato.

Are you suggesting they wouldn't have done just fine if they had potato instead of bread? This is unknowable

I’m saying that 99% of humans survived without potatoes until the 1500s, whereas most cultures have bread or bread-like ingredients as a staple, so bread is more important. But tbh if I had to pick only one starch I would pick rice.

[epilogue]

The curse operates on culinary ontology instead of science. So let's say you give up bread. If a normal person would call the thing "bread" (including flatbreads) then it’s bread and you can't eat it, even if it shares a lot in common with cake. Cake is not bread. Noodles are not bread.

Bread can be made from potato too, but if you give up bread and you try to make it out of potates the curse kicks in and it dissolves into inedible mush

Okay, good to know.

Then, a follow-up question: is a tortilla bread? Like, if you give up bread can you still eat tacos?

[Jorge]

Tortilla = flatbread = bread

[Jorge]

And yet pizza is not bread

[Chris_H_2]

i'm even more comfortable in my position of giving up potatoes than this morning when i answered.

[BurtReynolds]

crunchy tacos should be allowed.

[bart]

And yet pizza is not bread

No bread, no pizza

[epilogue]

And yet pizza is not bread

Pizza isn't bread???!!!

What kinda bullshit is this?

[epilogue]

crunchy tacos should be allowed.

I feel like any corn tortilla should be allowed. I'll entrain an argument against flour tortillas, but corn?

[Chris_H_2]

slopes are slippery

[epilogue]

slopes are slippery

and pizza is bread

[Jorge]

I've been thinking about it some more and am ready to concede that pizza is bread

[Jorge]

Corn tortilla, however, is also bread

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Bread is in everything

[BurtReynolds]

this deal is getting worse all the time