Jim StormdancerA cube has six faces. There should be 64 named food shapes on this grid. In 32 of them, the filling should fall to the floor immediately.
Don't play like you're doing science if you're not really willing to think it through.
Jesse Morris@mogwai_poet This implies that a taco is twelve different types of food depending on how it's oriented. That's a prospect that I think is worth investigating empirically.
The Uberduck@aubilenon @mogwai_poet to be fair, I think some of these can be collapsed. In no other context do we consider the orientation of the eater to the food when preparing it, nor do we change food designation based on rotation around the vertical axis. Gravity alone provides a privileged vector.
A pizza should have three rotational isotopes (what's the actual math word for this?), not six.
@uberduck @mogwai_poet These diagrams are simplified and as such elide gravity, friction, etc. The mouth is the fixed point around which camera is oriented, and how the taco relates to the mouth and tongue _does_ affect the culinary experience. _You_ may find, for instance, the first two on the second row interchangeable, but for someone who's right- or left-mouthed, they can make a big difference. Don't assume everybody's ambilingual just because you are!
@aubilenon @mogwai_poet I'm not saying the eating experience is the same across rotational symmetry. I'm just saying that even at the fanciest restaurants they won't have a different word for the slice of pie 90 degrees from the one you ordered.
@uberduck @mogwai_poet The famous none pizza with left beef is a mild counterexample. It's still a pizza, but that's okay, these can still be tacos.