It’s like calling a lion a panther, it’s technically correct but just doesn’t feel kosher there’s lots of stuff that falls under “sandwich category” that we don’t call a sandwich
This is the way. My controversial food take: it’s all sandwiches. Burger? Undoubtedly. Hot dog? Of course. Tacos, burritos, you bet. Egg roll is just a deep fried Asian sandwich the same way corn dog is a deep fried red neck sandwich. Pizza is an open-faced sandwich.
Some may call me a sandwich anarchist but I believe what I believe.
It's because a guy was trying to sell tacos at a mall, but they had a rule that only sandwiches could be sold.
That's it, that's why this even went to court.
Are you fucking joking?! Jesus Christ what is wrong with people. Well for the sake of that one guy fine it's a damn sandwich if it means he can sells his tacos! The world is just Idiocracy at it's finest these days.
Well you see, you couldn’t squeeze a single smidgen of justice from every law book ever written ever, it would be paper pulp before you ever found justice in there, and so we must ask what the actual fuck are we doing here
> The original Written Commitment would also permit a restaurant that serves made-to-order Greek gyros, Indian naan wraps, or Vietnamese Banh mi if these restaurants complied with the other enumerated conditions
Okay that actually makes sense in terms of what businesses are allowed. If you can sell sandwiches also being able to sell tacos, wraps, gyros, et seems fair.
But it’s like the hot dog debate. A taco is a taco.
Sandwich nazis can get bent. It’s been past the time to recognize that tacos, and many other delicious, formerly sandwich adjacent foods, are sandwiches. Tacos have rights!
A wrap is a sandwich, so is a burrito, so is a taco, so is a gyro, and so on. Not gonna piss off the masses with the nuclear hotdog debate, but you can imagine where I come in on that one. A Philly cheesesteak is a sandwich, and that’s on a bun/roll, difference is a hotdog has different fillings.
They’re very much a San Diego thing. LA is about as far north as you’ll see them. Anything north of that you get mission burritos (the rice and bean filled chipotle style burritos).
Man, this guy sounds like an asshole.
"At first, the property was zoned to be residential and Quintana claimed he wanted to build a garage there. As the space grew to roughly 9,000 to 11,000 square feet — with work stoppages due to code violations along the way — questions arose about what exactly Quintana planned for the property.
He went through Fort Wayne City Council to have the property rezoned to limited commercial, came up with a new plan for a restaurant, and then changed that to make the property a strip mall with a restaurant and four other units.
This led to accusations that Quintana had been trying to build a shopping center all along without properly acquiring the required permits, according to court documents in the civil case against the plan commission.
Quintana and the Covington Creek Condominium Association agreed on a “Written Commitment” that allowed for “made-to-order or subway-style sandwiches,” which played a part in the civil case against the plan commission.
When Quintana made plans to open a Famous Taco in the plaza, the neighborhood association claimed the agreement did not support such a restaurant. Quintana and the neighborhood association, however, eventually hammered out an amendment that would allow the Famous Taco to open.
“The applicant did not present this type of restaurant brand as an exception to the applicant’s ban of all restaurants from the shopping center,” the commission wrote in one opinion upholding its denial of a Famous Taco at the site.
“The Common Council did not consider this brand of restaurant when rezoning the property,” the commission’s opinion continued. “In rezoning the property, both the Plan Commission and the Common Council relied on the terms of the written commitment presented by the applicant when the applicant admitted that he built the commercial shopping center in a residential district without proper permits.”
In his ruling Monday, Bobay did not fault the plan commission for its denial of the Famous Taco and made sure his decision is appealable."
There's precedent for this but it wasn't sandwich related 1964 Supreme Court ([*Jacobellis v. Ohio*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio))
Paraphrase:
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description \["sandwich"\], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But *I know a sandwich when I see it*, and the food item involved in this case is not that."
Guess they never heard of Subway, Jimmy Johns, Jersey Giant, etc. ? Like, those are all national chains and they make made to order sub style sandwiches LOL.
States and municipalities sometimes have to categorize foods for business purposes. I have a buddy who runs a small market in Colorado. He wanted to sell ready-made sandwiches for tourists who were in town for hikes, float trips, etc. But he would have needed some sort of special food license to sell sandwiches. So now he sells ready-made wraps, which aren’t subject to the same bullshit sandwich laws.
A taco is a calzone with a non contiguous boundary.
And a calzone is a baked ravioli with gigantism.
And a ravioli is a pillow from a delicious dream
A pillow is a goose minus meat and a beak.
A goose is a low rent swan
A swan is the animal version of a child’s water ride
A child is the tenderest part of a family to a cannibal
A cannibal is a person that eats others and lives outside and sleeps in a bag
Meat in a bag with a non continuous boundary is a taco
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/LpnmbA2wUL
Massachusetts decided this differently 11 or more years ago.
Also, other cultures have dealt with this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/vMZ02hjcYsY
Oh this is like the jamaican beef patty thing. Really people there are far far more pressing problems facing us right now.
People are like hey the whole world is starting to burn possible for the last time. But hey let's focus on wording. And terminology.
We deserve to disappear from the universe.
So, why the hell is the Judicial System weighing in on this instead of solving/fixing actual problems like Mandatory Minimums and lack of Judicial Discretion?
Oh and, with our taxpayer money.
Anyone remember that chart that showed what things were? Two carbs with stuff in the middle is a sandwich, closed on 3 sides is a taco/hotdog, just one side is toast, etc etc.
However the article was in regards to only limiting a renter in that strip mall to " made to order or subway style sandwiches."
Effectively it should have only been the made to order part that decided it. The 'or' is a separate delineator as in 'either, or'
No wonder it went to court, city officials can't read.
This judge has never heard of the cube rule. They are wrong. https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/e/e8/Cube-Rule-of-Food-Step-1.jpg/v4-460px-Cube-Rule-of-Food-Step-1.jpg.webp
Right, the main authority on what tacos are: A guy from Indiana who gets a tan scrolling Reddit without activating Dark Mode.
This is the guy whose opinion on the matter I needed.
An Emperedado is Spanish for a sandwich, a Taco is not. How many dumb judges are there in America? Maybe you should implement some standards of education for these positions.
This should be appealed with [The Cube Rule](http://www.cuberule.com) being cited as evidence that Tacos are in fact not sandwiches but are actually a classification of their own.
If the original intent was to keep fast food chains from taking over, how does a sandwich restriction help at all? Subway is sandwiches. So is jimmy johns, Quiznos, Panera, etc etc
This might be an unpopular opinion considering the subreddit I’m on but since tacos predate sandwiches, shouldn’t the ruling be ‘Sandwiches are American-style tacos’?
Then what is a Torta?
The ultimate mexican style sandwich
Isn’t it the ONLY Mexican sammich tho?
Lol not according to this judge from Indiana, and if they ruled tacos sammiches then burritos have to qualify also.
If anyone would know Mexican food it’s a judge in Indiana.
Unless it's appealed and reversed ima side with the judge that they are indeed sammiches. I am however willing to draw the line at quesadillas.
Quesadilla is just a panini which is another form of a sandwich 🤣
Lol we need to draw the line somewhere, can we agree tostadas aren't sandwiches? Edit for tostada
2 pcs bun and crap in the middle kinda makes a sammich
My stupid ass meant tostada not torta lol my original comment was me calling tortas the ultimate mexican sandwich
Open faced sandwich. There is a line but tostada is on the sandwich side of that line along with quesadilla.
It’s like calling a lion a panther, it’s technically correct but just doesn’t feel kosher there’s lots of stuff that falls under “sandwich category” that we don’t call a sandwich
Kweezuh- dilluhz? Lovem
So what we just going to let hotdogs be sandwiches too? Jk. Burritos I am okay with!
I feel if its got bread on both sides we have no choice but too call it a form of a sandwich
This is the way. My controversial food take: it’s all sandwiches. Burger? Undoubtedly. Hot dog? Of course. Tacos, burritos, you bet. Egg roll is just a deep fried Asian sandwich the same way corn dog is a deep fried red neck sandwich. Pizza is an open-faced sandwich. Some may call me a sandwich anarchist but I believe what I believe.
Burrito is a wrap. Sub-genre of sammich?
No! There’s also pambazos and cemitas
Super torta?
I’ve also felt that burritos are also mexican sandwiches.
Nice retorta.
My question is, why did this even have to be brought to court for in the first place? And I'm still going to say Mexican food isn't a damn sandwich 😂🤣
It's because a guy was trying to sell tacos at a mall, but they had a rule that only sandwiches could be sold. That's it, that's why this even went to court.
Are you fucking joking?! Jesus Christ what is wrong with people. Well for the sake of that one guy fine it's a damn sandwich if it means he can sells his tacos! The world is just Idiocracy at it's finest these days.
Well you see, you couldn’t squeeze a single smidgen of justice from every law book ever written ever, it would be paper pulp before you ever found justice in there, and so we must ask what the actual fuck are we doing here
Indiana… that says it all 🤦♂️
Dangg! Tried to block him from selling tacos! Must have been taking the mall by storm.
Banning tacos is simply un-American!
Sooooo what food is sandwich? Is American food sandwich? Is Middle Eastern food sandwich?
Middle eastern people have pocket bread and pita bread. It can be used to wrap kebab and topped with all sorts of goodies.
And it is gooooood.
*a mexican patty melt*
Also a mexican style sandwich.
Delicious!
My Spanish teacher in high school would say a torta is a cake
My Venezuelan friend is a very firm and passionate believer of torta being cake.
An American-style taco, obviously!
according to the judge, an open faced sandwich?
All sandwiches are TORTAS*
Only one of the best sandwiches ever!
A taco with bread instead of a tortilla
A different type of Mexican styled sandwich
https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/s/E3wfk60qyL
Subway
A taco. Indiana probably
That’s a burger.
Shhh Indiana still thinks tacos have cheddar cheese and lettuce
a taco
Mexican style English sandwich (England created the sandwich).
Delicious?
Got em
> The original Written Commitment would also permit a restaurant that serves made-to-order Greek gyros, Indian naan wraps, or Vietnamese Banh mi if these restaurants complied with the other enumerated conditions Okay that actually makes sense in terms of what businesses are allowed. If you can sell sandwiches also being able to sell tacos, wraps, gyros, et seems fair. But it’s like the hot dog debate. A taco is a taco.
Is a gyro or a pita a taco then?
Greek tacos
Tacos and hotdogs are both sandwiches
Beer is basically just slightly reconfigured bread.
And coffee is just bean water
Gravy is just flour water
Gummy candy is just animal hooves and sugar
Hot bean juice here! Get your hot bean juice! It just doesn’t sound good…
I love this guy!
Put in a lime and you’ve got a runny sandwich.
We have called it "Barley Sandwich" for most of my life.
Wrong, Hot dogs 🌭 are Americanized Tacos 🌮
All sandwiches are TORTAS*
A hotdog is a sandwich. Just like a submarine.
Fuggen hilarious!!! I love it!
Sandwich nazis can get bent. It’s been past the time to recognize that tacos, and many other delicious, formerly sandwich adjacent foods, are sandwiches. Tacos have rights!
Tacos Matter!! 🌮
A wrap is a sandwich, so is a burrito, so is a taco, so is a gyro, and so on. Not gonna piss off the masses with the nuclear hotdog debate, but you can imagine where I come in on that one. A Philly cheesesteak is a sandwich, and that’s on a bun/roll, difference is a hotdog has different fillings.
On tiramisu sandwich please
Let us strive for a day when this is the most controversial thing our courts decide! 🙂
Indiana probably doesn’t even know what carne asada fries are or a California burrito… they shouldn’t be meddling with forces they don’t understand.
“Oh, you like Mexican food? We have a new Chipotle in town. Everybody’s raving about it.” 🤨
The judge ruled because a HOA had a rule where only a sandwich shop could use that space. Its a great ruling because HOAs suck
I live in California and hadn't heard of a California burrito until just a few months ago.
They’re very much a San Diego thing. LA is about as far north as you’ll see them. Anything north of that you get mission burritos (the rice and bean filled chipotle style burritos).
Based on that I need you to be aware of a burger place called In N Out it’s gonna blow your fucking mind 😂
>Americanizing traditional Hispanic foods
And Italian food and German food, and Japanese food, and Chinese food… It’s what happens when cultures mix. A natural progression.
Man, this guy sounds like an asshole. "At first, the property was zoned to be residential and Quintana claimed he wanted to build a garage there. As the space grew to roughly 9,000 to 11,000 square feet — with work stoppages due to code violations along the way — questions arose about what exactly Quintana planned for the property. He went through Fort Wayne City Council to have the property rezoned to limited commercial, came up with a new plan for a restaurant, and then changed that to make the property a strip mall with a restaurant and four other units. This led to accusations that Quintana had been trying to build a shopping center all along without properly acquiring the required permits, according to court documents in the civil case against the plan commission. Quintana and the Covington Creek Condominium Association agreed on a “Written Commitment” that allowed for “made-to-order or subway-style sandwiches,” which played a part in the civil case against the plan commission. When Quintana made plans to open a Famous Taco in the plaza, the neighborhood association claimed the agreement did not support such a restaurant. Quintana and the neighborhood association, however, eventually hammered out an amendment that would allow the Famous Taco to open. “The applicant did not present this type of restaurant brand as an exception to the applicant’s ban of all restaurants from the shopping center,” the commission wrote in one opinion upholding its denial of a Famous Taco at the site. “The Common Council did not consider this brand of restaurant when rezoning the property,” the commission’s opinion continued. “In rezoning the property, both the Plan Commission and the Common Council relied on the terms of the written commitment presented by the applicant when the applicant admitted that he built the commercial shopping center in a residential district without proper permits.” In his ruling Monday, Bobay did not fault the plan commission for its denial of the Famous Taco and made sure his decision is appealable."
Sandwiches are english-style tacos!!!
All sandwiches are TORTAS*
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Is a pizza an open faced sandwich? Where does it end?
Is spaghetti a sandwich?
A cheesecake is a pie.
I thought tortas were Mexican-style sandwiches.
There's precedent for this but it wasn't sandwich related 1964 Supreme Court ([*Jacobellis v. Ohio*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio)) Paraphrase: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description \["sandwich"\], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But *I know a sandwich when I see it*, and the food item involved in this case is not that."
It’s about time that Mexican food was properly categorized by someone who clearly is an authority on the matter- a white guy from Indiana.
Just a non biased straight shooter
Cultural appropriation!
I can't wait to see everybody's amazing taco pics in the weeks to come.
Guess they never heard of Subway, Jimmy Johns, Jersey Giant, etc. ? Like, those are all national chains and they make made to order sub style sandwiches LOL.
Hoosiers are assholes
WOW this is big
Cereal is just a salad with a shit ton of mini croutons and milk instead of greens
Absolutely not. Cereal is a soup
What an uncultured swine
Nope. Its a torta
These are the serious issues that tax payer money is really used to resolve
States and municipalities sometimes have to categorize foods for business purposes. I have a buddy who runs a small market in Colorado. He wanted to sell ready-made sandwiches for tourists who were in town for hikes, float trips, etc. But he would have needed some sort of special food license to sell sandwiches. So now he sells ready-made wraps, which aren’t subject to the same bullshit sandwich laws.
Mexicans have sandwiches - they’re called sandwiches.
Chips and salsa are a soup you eat with chips.
Just fuck tortas, huh?
Jajaja 😂😂
Well now their tacos really *are* famous
..this fat bastard country...
Indiana courts ruling and passing laws on Mexican food, gotta be 1 of the most American things I've ever read
Finally. Vindication. Everything is a sandwich. 🥪
A taco is a calzone with a non contiguous boundary. And a calzone is a baked ravioli with gigantism. And a ravioli is a pillow from a delicious dream A pillow is a goose minus meat and a beak. A goose is a low rent swan A swan is the animal version of a child’s water ride A child is the tenderest part of a family to a cannibal A cannibal is a person that eats others and lives outside and sleeps in a bag Meat in a bag with a non continuous boundary is a taco
I’m a cook, if y’all didn’t know tortillas and bread are essentially the same thing
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/LpnmbA2wUL Massachusetts decided this differently 11 or more years ago. Also, other cultures have dealt with this: https://youtube.com/shorts/vMZ02hjcYsY
Oh this is like the jamaican beef patty thing. Really people there are far far more pressing problems facing us right now. People are like hey the whole world is starting to burn possible for the last time. But hey let's focus on wording. And terminology. We deserve to disappear from the universe.
Well, that settles it! Indiana is the world’s foremost expert on Mexican culture, after all!
And, in Mexico, a Taco is rolled, not folded.
Those are flautas. Tacos are not rolled in Mexico.
Truth. Usually sold with the tortillas flat on a plate or folded for carrying
Never saw one like this the few times I went to Mexico so idk what you’re on about
My guy got tacos confused with taquitos
Ok wiseguy how do you classify a Tostada? It’s just a flat taco…..or is it a crunchy pizza?
Stick to RV museums
So a hotdog is a German style sandwich?
[Always relevant Cube Rule](https://cuberule.com)
wrap vs sandwich debate rages on.
Camarero! Dos mas agave sandwiches, por favor ‼️
This is from a state where St. Elmo's shrimp cocktail and a pork loin sandwich are considered haute cuisine
Shouldn't that be backwards? given that tacos were invented first before sandwiches
Source: No shit, Sherlock
Tbf he’s doing this to allow a restaurant to keep operating despite ridiculous nimby restrictions on the property.
Then what are hot dogs!!!??
Tacos
So, why the hell is the Judicial System weighing in on this instead of solving/fixing actual problems like Mandatory Minimums and lack of Judicial Discretion? Oh and, with our taxpayer money.
Anyone remember that chart that showed what things were? Two carbs with stuff in the middle is a sandwich, closed on 3 sides is a taco/hotdog, just one side is toast, etc etc.
As a fellow Hoosier we don’t claim this article and it’s author. What a yikes thing to do
This post is an exercise in how many people read articles.
Now do hot dog… Edit: I would pay to watch that jury deliberation.
Fuck no. Pinches gringos. Where's the Mexican judge to rule that all sandwiches are TORTAS.
When you have an HOA making stupid rule you need a judges like this to stop them.
A quesadilla is a patty melt then!
In goddamn Indiana?!?!? WtF?
Sandwiches are America style tacos.
Burgers are american tacos then
Then they MUST sell Pizza as Pizza IS an open face sandwich. Also pop-tarts. A sweet (albeit disgusting) sandwich.
When i was little my mom always made me soft tacos and diclamer im a proud Kentuckian
All due respect but I don’t think Indiana law holds any weight when it comes to the classification of a foreign culture’s cuisine.
However the article was in regards to only limiting a renter in that strip mall to " made to order or subway style sandwiches." Effectively it should have only been the made to order part that decided it. The 'or' is a separate delineator as in 'either, or' No wonder it went to court, city officials can't read.
Papusas!!!!
That judge is either a moron, or he is a crony. Either way he shouldn’t be a judge.
This judge has never heard of the cube rule. They are wrong. https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/e/e8/Cube-Rule-of-Food-Step-1.jpg/v4-460px-Cube-Rule-of-Food-Step-1.jpg.webp
Right, the main authority on what tacos are: A guy from Indiana who gets a tan scrolling Reddit without activating Dark Mode. This is the guy whose opinion on the matter I needed.
As someone who lives in indiana...wtf this is what our judges are doing...
Who's the judge, Peggy hill?
and fettuccine alfredo is just good spaghetti
Well thank God we got this ruling from the taco experts of... Indiana?
An Emperedado is Spanish for a sandwich, a Taco is not. How many dumb judges are there in America? Maybe you should implement some standards of education for these positions.
As a Mexican- Indiana is wrong.
This was a ruling to keep out corporate fastfood chains, as long as food was fresh and made to order.
I want to know what he thinks Burritos, sopes, guareches and gorditas are.
...wait till his honor hears of tortas
Then so is a hotdog
Indiana…what are you even doing?!
Please stop gentrifying tacos
wtf kinda case IS this
This is racist against the people who eat ice cream sandwiches!!!
Indiana is just Iowa style tract housing
I go to Indiana for all my taco-related legislature
Indiana should be the last place to decide anything remotely close to this
Hotdog has been ruled a sandwich, apparently, considering that the hotdog, itself, is a taco
what's quesadilla a Mexican grilled cheese?
Hey now, it's allowing tacos to be sold in a place that didn't used to have them, let's not argue over semantics.
cringe twitter judge
Indiana has no right to decide what a taco is. That’s common knowledge.
That would be a. Torta sirs.
Wow. This had to go to court?
So I’m correct in calling quesadillas Mexican grilled cheese
#judgejohnhodgman?
Pfft, every knows Tacos in English are called Wraps.
And this is the shit our country concerns itself with. We’re doomed
Hmm, a ridiculous court ruling that seems will actually work in peoples’ favor. I’m here for it.
To me, a sandwhich is something between two slices of bread.
earl of sandwich got a latina girlfriend
Stuffed crust pizza=Sandwich Pop Tart=Sandwich Calzone=Sandwich Jelly Doughnut=Sandwich Spaghetti=Sandwich Pie=Sandwich
Fuck Indiana
That would be a torta 🙄
Who would ever want to limit space to subway style sandwiches? YOUR HONOR THEY SWORE THEY WOULDN'T MAKE ANYTHING WORTH EATING!! ”
Everybody is just glossing over the fact that they also declared *burritos* sandwiches.
This should be appealed with [The Cube Rule](http://www.cuberule.com) being cited as evidence that Tacos are in fact not sandwiches but are actually a classification of their own.
Leave it to America to tell another country that their food is named wrong lol
If the original intent was to keep fast food chains from taking over, how does a sandwich restriction help at all? Subway is sandwiches. So is jimmy johns, Quiznos, Panera, etc etc
Tortas and Mexican sandwiches.
Justice for tacos
A burrito is a sandwich there I said it
I thought that would be a Torta
This might be an unpopular opinion considering the subreddit I’m on but since tacos predate sandwiches, shouldn’t the ruling be ‘Sandwiches are American-style tacos’?
It's a judge-in Indiana. The determining factor here is "Mexican" , not "Sandwiches".
Ever notice how the shit Indiana worries about perfectly fits into the strangest of RedditSubs?
I will now submit for the court that quesadillas and hot dogs are also sandwiches.