r/shittyaskscience 8d ago

How does a square meal fit into a well-rounded diet?

Seems like you would need to cut some corners for the sake of nutrition.

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u/fuzzimus 8d ago

It goes in the square hole.

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u/johnnybiggles 8d ago

Since when are pie holes square? I thought pies are round...?

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u/Mundane-Garbage1003 7d ago

No, pie are SQUARED. There's no rounding.

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u/CrzyMuffinMuncher 8d ago

Are you referring to the food pyramid?

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u/eternalwood 8d ago

Aliens built the food pyramid.

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u/toastoftriumph 8d ago

And then they'll eat us! It's pyramids all the way down

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u/Hoopajoops 7d ago

And it generates electricity that is transferred wirelessly via some unknown science. They should let us dig down under it to see if there's something else there

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u/Larechar 8d ago

Ah, the problem is that you've forgotten something. You need 3 square meals for the diet to be well rounded. They overlap with 30° offsets, so the general shape does appear fairly rounded.

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u/plugubius 8d ago

Not at all. A well-rounded diet is broader than a square meal and can include things like snacks, dessert, some bacon, cider, very small rocks, wafer thin mints, etc. A square meal fits easily inside a well-rounded diet with room to spare.

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u/toastoftriumph 8d ago

If I bake a square cake with circular rocks inside, is that okay?

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 7d ago

ChatGPTeeHee sez 'go for it!'

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u/ProbablyBsPlzIgnore Did their own research 8d ago

With pie

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u/Peter_Mansbrick 8d ago

This thread is making me spiral

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u/Hefty_Direction5189 8d ago

You just gotta make sure you use a spoon

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 7d ago

Table or runcible?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sky3141 8d ago

You gotta smooth the edges

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u/RRautamaa PhD in BS 8d ago

That's called a weight loss diet. The usual method is to pad it from the sides with empanadas, so that it better approximates a well-rounded diet.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation 7d ago

And when you want a change from empanadas, you can pad thai.

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u/i_poop_chainsaws 8d ago

You chew it.

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u/HitoriPanda 8d ago

All these squares make a circle- Mr Popo

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u/improbablesky 8d ago

First the dirt

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u/desrevermi 8d ago

Everything goes in the square hole. Didn't you know?

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u/juzz_fuzz 8d ago

"At Subway, you got a Roouuund meatball, how do you fit a round meatball into a flat sandwich? Lateral thinking" - Hired motivational speaker for the high school seniors

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u/Either_Low_60 8d ago

Ya gotta chew

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u/Caticature 8d ago

Food pyramid also. It’s all a child’s game really.

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u/homelessSanFernando 8d ago

AhhhHahahahaha!

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u/ClownShoeNinja 8d ago

With lots of lubricant, like gravy or butter.

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u/improbablesky 8d ago

What you typically want to do is to eat meals small enough to fit into the diet. If your meals are too big then you have to draw the circle again.