Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Behold the Candwich

We missed the boat on the Candwich, a "new and innovative sandwich product." Will Fist says there's a ham sandwich in every can of beer, but this is taking things a little far:

BBQ Chicken Drink! Coming soon: Pepperoni Pizza Drink! It appears to be marketed to children, hikers, and construction workers, a homogenous target market in that each cohort.... likes... peanut butter and jelly drinks?
In other news, while researching this post, (i.e. Googling "is there really a ham sandwich in every can of beer"), I uncovered the Ham Sandwich Theorem, which refers to "the special case when n = 3 and the three objects are a chunk of ham, a slice of cheese, and two slices of bread (treated as a single disconnected object).
The theorem then states that it is possible to slice the ham and cheese sandwich in half such that each half contains the same amount of bread, cheese, and ham. It is possible to treat the two slices of bread as a single object, because the theorem only requires that the portion on each side of the plane vary continuously as the plane moves through 3-space."
This can sometimes lead to the "ham sandwich problem" which I don't understand and thus won't try to explain because it has something to do with an algorithm computing a dimensional hyperplane.
The ham sandwich theorem has no relationship to the "squeeze theorem" which, upon further research, is also known as the Two Policemen and a Drunk Theorem, and I am not making this up, and I have veered way off course from the Candwich and can't find my way home.
This is what happens when you take a break from grantwriting.

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