The hypercubic rule of hypothetical 4d food identification

A structural typology of food in 4 dimensions

All 16 food types represented with 7x7x7x7 "pixel art", a 7x7 square is a xy planar cross section at a point in the zw plane, any row/column forms a 3d cross section

Note that unlike the 3d cube rule , “structural food” is used to define these, as 4d biochemistry is not currently understood well enough to say weather “starch” can be said to exist.

Elementary hypercube rulings

These classify food based on how many sides of structural food surround the other ingredients, naturally there are 8 of them(up from 6 in 3 dimensions):

• Toast: structural food on 1 cube & stuff on top (like pizza)

• Sandwich: structural food on 2 opposite cubes & stuff between

  • Note: L-shaped structural food does NOT form a sandwich, but a weirdly described Taco

• Taco: structural food on 3 cubes in a U-shape & stuff between

  • Tacos should not be confused with Anti-Tacos, which despite the name are better analogues to 3d tacos

• Rolls: structural food on 4 cubes in a ring shape, leaving an orthogonal ring open, spheritori are also rolls

  • Rolls should not be confused with Wraps

  • Rolls without any extra ingredients may be described as degenerate(or rings)

• Anti-Taco: structural food on 5 cubes, with a missing U-shape

  • Anti-Tacos should not be confused with Tacos

• Wrap: structural food on 6 cubes, leaving 2 opposite ones open, torispheres are also wraps

  • Wraps should not be confused with Rolls

  • Wraps without any filling may be described as degenerate(or hollow spheres)

• Quiche: structural food on all but 1 cube, a "bread bowl"(or ice cream cone)

• Calzone: structural food completely surrounds the interior ingredients, like a schnitzel

  • Calzones without any filling may be described as degenerate(or hollow bread)

Notice how the most open/closed types have clear 3d equivalents, while tacos & “sushi” each have 2 generalizations

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Para-lateral hypercube rulings

• Croutons: “3d” “flat” rigid blobs/”slices”

  • You would cut your 4d bread into these to make toast/sandwiches/cake

• Cake: a multi-layered sandwich, like lasagna

• Salad: no structural food, includes things like soup, steak, & ice cream

  • Also notably mashed potatoes(assuming 4d potatoes exist), which may be starchy but have lost their structural integrity

  • Note that steak could be sufficiently rigid to count as Bread(or toast if you add sauces)

• Ditoric donuts: a hollow spheritorus of structural food with ingredients in the middle, may also refer to a glazed spheritorus which may or may not have any filling

  • This is literally just a more symmetrical version of a 3d donut

• Nachos: “2d” rigid blobs

  • Note that Croutons are flat, planar shapes are more like ridges on the surfaces of 4d objects

  • Klein bottle shaped food is classified as nachos for nerds

• Baguette: “1d” “linear” rigid blobs, like french fries & candy canes

  • Note that hollowing & filling a Baguette along the main axis results in a Wrap

  • 4d spaghetti would only count as baguettes until cooked, at which point they become unstructured salad

• Tiger: structural food in the shape of a tiger

  • yes, this is a real 4d shape name

    • no, it has nothing to do with biological tigers

• Bread: “4d” rigid blobs, like a calzone without any filling

  • Structural food completely surrounded by other ingredients may be described as “breads in salad”, “anti-calzones”, or “glaze balls”

• Pretzels: structural food with multiple holes

  • Note that there are 2 types of holes in 4d space, defined by their boundary: circular(2d) & spherical(3d)

  • (not depicted)