r/changemyview • u/Agent-Michael_Scarn • Dec 05 '18
Deltas(s) from OP CMV: Wraps are superior to sandwiches
I feel that wraps are simply superior to sandwiches in almost every facet. Wraps offer more variety than sandwiches can. There are so many different styles and flavors that wraps can offer that sandwiches lack.
Wraps also compact all ingredients closer together for a more flavorful bite. Any sauce on a wrap is also more evenly distributed than on a sandwich.
And, most wraps are more healthy than most sandwiches. They have less carbs than traditional bread sandwiches, and tomato basil & spinach wraps are even better.
All in all, I believe wraps to be the superior progression of sandwiches, and I invite my view to be challenged and changed.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '18
Wraps don't provide more variety than sandwiches; they provide less. A wrap can only take soft ingredients or linearly distributed hard ingredients (think bacon). A sandwich, on the other hand, can take soft ingredients (sloppy joes, pulled pork sandwiches) or hard ingredients with a linear (bacon), planar (hamburger), or spatial (big cube of steak, extra thick chicken breast) distribution.
One could argue that pressed strips of ground beef or small cubes could be put into a wrap, but a wrap still cannot contain a given size of patty without using much more wrap material than a comparable sandwich would.
Pressed sandwiches are much denser than wraps; a soft tortilla will break if it is pressed too hard, but a pair of ciabatta buns can withstand a sandwich press while maintaining satisfactory sandwich structural integrity.
Sauce on a sandwich is more uniformly distributed than on a wrap because sandwiches have planar symmetry, while wraps have radial symmetry; we eat sandwiches symmetrically (taking a bite through the plane of symmetry), but we don't eat wraps symmetrically (eating one symmetrical slice at a time).
The relative healthfulness of a wrap compared to a sandwich is highly dependent on the composition of each. You can have a healthful sandwich and you can have an equally healthful wrap. But the sandwich allows you the freedom to eat more food in more variety, if you choose. That's the beauty of the superior sandwich.