new sandwich shop in park slope

Drunken Revival wrote:

To offer a 100 different sandwiches you need remarkably few ingredients. Two types of bread, three kinds of meat and three different veggies and you could put together well over one hundred different types of sandwiches.

Um, no.

While the answer is not technically 18 (2x3x3) it would be if every sandwich required one piece bread (which it does), one meat, and one veggie. Let's assume that every sandwich requires bread and at least one ingredient. That is if you consider the absence of an ingredient a unique sammie then the answer in the above case is closer to 35 than it is to 100.

Not to sound like a total dick (I can do that on just about any other thread on this board)... but I just couldn't let that fuzzy math sit.

Thanks for stepping in before things got out of control. I was just about to smack mr.mathless with a calculator.

Thanks to those who defended my math.

The larger point I was trying to make was that Flexichick (and anyone else) need not worry that the large variety of sandwiches will necessarily result in less fresh ingredients. If their ingredients aren't fresh, it won't be because they offer too many types of sandwiches; it'll be a sourcing, or storage problem, etc.

young and modern wrote: sammies!

As horrid as that is, it's not as bad as "sangwich."

I've been saying ham sammie way before that squeaky chick was on tv.

Carnivore,

I applaud your cutting and pasting abilities, but you highlight the age old divide between mathematicians and those that actually do things that affect people in the real word.

First, what is bread A+B? You're using two DIFFERENT types a bread in one sammie? Um, ok..

Second, as I said in my previous post I'm kinda assuming that a sammie is more than bread and one veggie or one meat. (which all of Reis 100 sammies are). Therefore, all of your "no meat" and "no veggie" combos go away in the real world situation that I was hoping (with little confidence) we were having.

Drunken Revival wrote: Carnivore,

I applaud your cutting and pasting abilities, but you highlight the age old divide between mathematicians and those that actually do things that affect people in the real word.

First, what is bread A+B? You're using two DIFFERENT types a bread in one sammie? Um, ok..

Second, as I said in my previous post I'm kinda assuming that a sammie is more than bread and one veggie or one meat. (which all of Reis 100 sammies are). Therefore, all of your "no meat" and "no veggie" combos go away in the real world situation that I was hoping (with little confidence) we were having.

Sorry, but I call bullshit again. I already said that we could leave out the mixed bread sandwiches. If you're a purist about it being "real world" how about condiments? There are plenty of sandwiches that only have a single meat or a single veg and a condiment that are every bit a "real" sandwich. You can't go into a cafe in France without finding a sandwich that's just ham on bread with butter. The fact is that in the real world, Architecture Biscuit was absolutely right about being able to make 100 different sandwiches with just a handful of ingredients, and your post was at best, nit-picky.

We aren't in France. The original argument/discussion centered around the sammie shop in question - Reis 100. That place doesn't offer condiments and doesn't make sammies with just bread and a piece of ham.

My only point, purist or not, is that to make 100 sammies, at the shop in question and according to that shops definition of a sammie, it requires more than "remarkably few" ingredients.

That's all... that's all I was really saying. And, if I wanted to I know I could go through Carnivores list and poke more logical hole in it.. but I just don't care enough.