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Nan bread can go far if tossed like a frisbee ☝️

Well, it depends. A baguette has superior javelin properties, but you could probably skim a well-baked naan further on water. I am available for testing purposes, some of your naan may mysteriously disappear though.

javelin or discus ?

I’m thinking the naan bread. Both are very aerodynamic in their own way, but the naan has more mass. Thrown with sufficient force, like a frisbee I think it could really travel! There’s a quiz show in this I’m sure.

Are we talking ‘curry shop naan’ or ‘Pataks warm-at-home naan’ tho, because there are significantly different aerodynamic qualities involved

Am I using an electric catapult or steam catapult?

so many answers rely on aerodynamics, but things can be thrown way farther in space?

I'm guessing you'd throw the baguette like a javelin and the naan more like a discus, but my guess would be the baguette would go further

Throw the naan like a frisbee and it should beat the baguette.

If only we had developed some sort of method for answering questions like this and didn't have to rely on uninformed public opinion. (I am however unreasonably confident that the answer's naan, obviously).

Obviously a naan bread you can sort of frisbee it

Freeze the naan and it wins

Naan shall not replace us

Regular naan, garlic naan, garlic cheese naan, we need to know the density in order to model its flight characteristics

You didn't say baguette bread. Why would you say naan bread?

Depends on the launching mechanism.

The Sammich Revolution needs to happen.

I’d go for the baguette and use the axe throwing technique.

Naan, clearly. Nice weight, throw like a frisbee

What did you go for? I guess it depends on your favoured Olympic discipline

Gotta be a baguette.

why would anyone throw a baguette? So rude.

Can we scrunch up the naan?

In other words…bread spear? Or bread frisbee?

Stupid question: Clearly depends on the wind.

this question is going to have someone driving to the grocery store for supplies to conduct testing

Naan frisbee style would go further. Don't think Javelin or end over end Baguette would work very well.

Naan uses the Bernoulli effect to create lift, it’s essentially a rotary wing if thrown like a frisbee. Baguettes have relatively poor aerodynamics. Of course, this is merely speculative, as I have already eaten both test subjects.

What sort of baguette? Those kind of fake-ass ones they make outside France that are too short, too fat and too bread-y or proper French ones that are all crust and huge bubbles inside? I think a French ones could probably go transonic with the right launcher 😂

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Baguette like a javelin, sky’s the limit. But to launch and waste a naan…you’ve got to be pissed off and motivated.

BANG

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Naan. All the way, Throw it like a frizbee and it can catch some serious air.

@sladeb.bsky.social New bread discourse dropped

Baguette, like a javelin, right? You'd try to spin the naan like a discus, but it's not aerodynamic.

Didn't some Aussie podcasters test this already? Baguette won easily as I recall.

A bread bread

fresh or day old?

Seeds will affect drag factor but I reckon there's more potential for spear action than frisbee action

The correct answer is "Dwarven Fighting Loaf"

Naan of the Above

A naan might go far if thrown like a frisbee, but it would have to be really stiff to do that, and fresh naan isn't. So I'm gonna go with the baguette

If the naan was strong enough to survive being spun up then it would win I think

I think with plenty of practice, you probably could develop a flick-of-the-wrist technique for throwing a naan further than a baguette (though it might boomerang on you); but a beginner would be more likely to be able to throw a baguette further than a naan bread.

As a French, I say it’s the naan. The density and even the length of a baguette can vary greatly from one to another.

We would probably just eat both before we got to the chucking bit... #Carbs♥️

Naan. Like a frisbee.

I once saw a woman throw a baguette like a javelin at a wannabe bag-grabber. She missed but the gesture was glorious.

I think it depends on if we can throw the Naan like a frisbee, or like a discus

Neither would beat this t-shirt throw by Kelsey Plum

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How many people out there throwing bread now?! Happy birds.

Well it would have to be tried somewhere where there are no seagulls about, as they are famously skilled and fond of catching foodstuffs ‘on the wing’.

I don't think I realized that "a naan bread" could be used as a singular. I've always just used the plural "naan," as in, "Could we get some naan." But it makes sense.

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World Record Javain throw, under 100m. World Record Frisbee throw, OVER 300m. A stale baguette with a pointed end would still be aerodynamically inferior to a well crafted, circular naan.

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Javelin throw world record is about 30 meters more than discus. Baguette wins.

Naan would act like a frisbee but a baguette wold be a javelin so Baguette.

Shop bought Naan would do some miles in the right conditions, although would also be lethal, could do without Farage declaring a Naan based terrorist attack and a month of riots of fat bald men chanting "Heil Hovis" so dont try this at home folks.

You can measure the distance that you've thrown the baguette, it's a number. The other one's NaN.

Who are you people throwing a baguette like a spear when it clearly should be spiraled like a football?

Do they have to be well made? Feel like overcooked naan is the best option here.

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Which do you think it is possible to throw further: a baguette or a naan bread? | Daily QuestionWhich do you think it is possible to throw further: a baguette or a naan bread?yougov.com

Is this from the Citizenship exam?

Can I throw a naan like a frisbee? Will the baguette rifle like a football?

A dwarf baked naan bread is known to inflict casualties at a distance of 50 meters when thrown.

I feel like you could Frisbee one of those Naan breads pretty far.

A naan you can frisbee, we’re not daft!

I scanned the comments and saw none about the use of “further” instead of “farther.” Where all my pedantic bros tonight?

Is the naan crispy enough to toss like a Frisbee? Is the baguette long enough to throw like a javelin?

googling Olympic record for discus vs javelin, brb

If you’ve been following the BlueSky discourse, you’ll know the correct answer is a Naan.

The correct answer is C

Throwing a naan and baguette for distance are two events in the paintathlon.

The baguette because I finished eating the naan before I read the whole question.

This seems like a naan-issue.

Well, they didn't poll m[gets hit in the head with a baguette].

gutted that one didn't come on my survey

The way I'm approaching this is by saying that a Na'an is a frisbee, and a Baguette is a javelin. So I go do a quick google search on the world distance records for each of these and find that the frisbee blows the javalin out of the water at 4:1. So I'd have to give it to the Na'an.

African or Eurasian baguette?

Bread: javelin or discus

Gotta have the same mass of each if we’re to have a rigorous analysis. I volunteer to eat any excess in the interest of science.

My mentions:

I think it deserves to be scientifically tested. I volonteer, if it might help.

Depends the thick naan or pita naan? I could frisbee throw the weightier thick naan a mile. Naan Discus.

Let’s ask a physicist, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social ?

naan - easy - like a frisbee

can we clarify if we're allowed to modify the subject matter? I mean, a naan bread could be scrunched into a pretty dense ball; I'd think I could throw that further than a baguette

Feel like “don’t know“ should be running close to 100% here

Baguette easily, as I cannot comprehend anyone wanting to throw away naan.

Is this an unladen naan and a European baguette?

A question for the ages. Many have correctly pointed out that the size and consistency of the bready projectiles are important. But even more important is the throwing style. Fortunately, Classical Greeks at the original Olympiad settled this matter. The baguette can go further but has to be massive

Theyre both going over that mountain

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Wasn't this solved the other day?

Shouldn’t the third option read, “Naan of the above”?

Just discussed this with a cow-orker who coaches athletics. We think a baguette definitely has the structural integrity and weight required to travel further, whereas a naan would probably only go more than a short distance if you screwed it into a ball rather than spin it like a discus.

I think I could frisbee naan further than I could javelin a baguette.

Greens for the win ...

which would you like to throw farther, a baguette, or the frenchman who foisted it on you

Obviously naan—the baguette was inspired by the atlatl, so is not meant to be thrown itself.

is this because "we got the chocolates" had that discussion xD

we need to bring back Mythbusters

Surely the shape of the baguette is more ergonomic

I think a spinning naan would overcome air friction and be more stable, but would ultimately fail because no one wants to throw a delicious naan

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A nan bread, obviously, because you can use it as a frisbee.

Naan, obviously. You can throw it like a frisbee.

Throw the naan and make it return to you like a boomerang

I don't like to waste food, but I SO want to take a pack of each to the park and do some testing!!

baguette for sure, naan aren't symmetrical enough to avoid fluttering even if thrown like a frisbee

Yes, I got this one today too. I did think a naan might spin like a frisbee. However, there was insufficient info about size, weight, composition, etc. for me to really make a judgement.

going with naan because I’m so angry someone referred to it in the redundant naan bread form

I can think of one legitimate reason to ask this question: To measure how many people are willing to answer "don't know" to something that they don't know. That said, I very much doubt that that is the reason why this question is being asked.

I reckon a stale baguette could be thrown a mile, through windows and walls. Nothing would stop it. It may even breach the atmosphere and take out starlink!!!

Well it's quite different technique - I mean the naan bread would be Frisbee style and the baguette more of a javelin approach?

Kasane Teto is scandalised.

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Discus vs Javelin... It's all in the wrist, personally.

And why does a baguette not have bread behind it, while a naan does?

Naan because you can throw it like a frisbee! Baguettes vary so much in shape that it affects the overall aerodynamics.

Can we file down one end of the baguette to a finer point for better aerodynamic performance? I appreciate that I’m asking the wrong person here, it’s YouGov who should be monitoring the hotline on it rather than leaving you to take all the stress 🙂

depends which one you can personally throw further: a frisbee or a football

Great now I have to try this.

Another question, should we extend this to pizzas and other flatbreads?

Interesting! A stale, firm baguette thrown as a javelin vs a store-bought naan thrown as a frisbee... I think I want to run a simulation, for science. 🧑‍💻

Naan discus is definitely going further than baguette javelin

I have discarded old naan into the yard by throwing it like a disc golf disc and I can't imagine a baguette going as far as naan thrown with a lot of anhyzer. Let it rip flat and it just flops over on the ground but get it turned over at the start and they fly.

Depends on its temperature and air density.

It’s obviously a baguette. A golden-brown lance hurtling through the air with the elegance of an Olympic javelin, finding its mark with surgical precision. Naan isn’t even in the same league—it can only watch and dream.

Baguette, definitely. Unless the naan is really stale, it’s gonna be too floppy to fly like a frisbee, and all that surface area is gonna slow it down. A baguette is basically a missile.

You "javalin vs. discus" people are high. You have to think bowling pin vs. frisbee.

I am ridiculously overinvested in the outcome of this experiment.

of course naan. it’s just physics

Very nonsensical. It's very hard to tell when one of them might be thrown either like a javelin or a boomerang (meaning that no matter how far it gets it might just return to you) while the other one could be thrown like a frisbee. Or shuriken (that might be thrown like a frisbee though).

A baguette. Duh!

This is really asking what sport are you more skilled at: the javelin or ultimate frisbee