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[–] weariedfae 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

"Um actually,"

The inner core is solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is kinda...solidish-slushy-sorta.

So the earth is like one of those fancy cherry cordials with the 2 fillings?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think a Ferrero Rocher is a good fit. The solid core is the hazelnut, the molten core is the Nutella, the rocky crust is the wafer, and the chocolate and hazelnut coating is the topsoil.

[–] weariedfae 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's great! Ratios are a bit off but we are talking about food, there's no 1:1.

I think the wafer makes sense as the mantle, the chocolate as the oceanic crust and the hazelnut as the continental crust.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ratios will probably always be way off, no way to make a crust that thin without also making it huge

[–] multifariace 2 points 2 months ago

Eggs are closer. The center of the yolk being fully cooked. The outer half of the yolk uncooked but hot enough to be. The crust bursting when expansion escapes through a weakend crack solidifying as if continental crust.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

A Ferrero Rocher does look like it has mountains on it as well so this tracks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ravioli with meat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Takoyaki maybe?

[–] MamboGator 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Earth is actually a Hot Pocket. Molten lava inside but the outside is simultaneously dry, soggy and frozen.

[–] jaybone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It won’t be frozen for long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Self-heating hot pocket 🤤

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Something something Xena tapes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iron_Lynx 6 points 2 months ago

That alt text is absolutely a mood that I can only respect

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Ok, hear me out. It's a scotched egg, but the egg is soft boiled.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The calzones have betrayed me...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The liquid center bursts out sometimes, it's a soup dumpling

[–] M137 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever had a ravioli that's "molten inside". I'd say most of the time the pasta is the most soft part.

[–] Hiro8811 3 points 2 months ago

The mass produced one are like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like to think of the Earth more as a pizza roll. Eating one right out of the oven sure feels like tasting magma to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a ravioli, the casing was not made by pressing or folding two layers of the solid material together

[–] reinei 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So subduction zones don't count as "folding" anymore?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not really, that brings magma currents into the equation, which actually make the comparison even worse since raviolis don't undergo plate tectonic movements

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And a ravioli is a filling placed between two grain-dough based layers of even thickness; making it, and thus by extension, the Earth, a sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Why is the core of your ravioli molten?

[–] ohlaph 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds microwaved. Molten center with icy parts.

[–] FuglyDuck 2 points 2 months ago

And now I’m hungry.

[–] Sam_Bass 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dont tell Thanatos or he'll float over with some marinara sauce

[–] BoringHusband 1 points 2 months ago

It's more like a mince pie hot from the oven. You can hold it but the insides burn your mouth if you bite into it.