Is the hot dog a sandwich?
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:25 last edited by
“Do you think a hot dog is a sandwich?” I asked a friend the other day, in preparation for this article.
“It’s not the most typical referent for ‘sandwich,’” he mused. “But if someone said, ‘We’re only having sandwiches at this event,’ I wouldn’t be surprised if I showed up and hot dogs were part of the food.”
“Would you be surprised if they served slices of pizza folded in half?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he admitted.
“How are those different from hot dogs?”
“I’ll get back to you,” he said.
“A hot dog meets all the necessary and sufficient conditions to make a sandwich,” another friend insisted. “It’s a thing inside two pieces of bread. The shape of the bread doesn’t matter.”
“But a hot dog doesn’t have two pieces of bread,” I said. “It’s one piece of bread that’s folded.”
“Subway sandwiches aren’t always cut the whole way through,” he countered. “But you think those are sandwiches, right?”
“I guess,” I said.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:26 last edited by
Yes. Of course it's a sandwich.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:27 last edited by
No one except for someone starting week 1 of a TSOL class would ever order a "hot dog sandwich."
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:28 last edited by mark 4 Nov 2020, 14:28
It doesn't require the word "sandwich" in the title to be a sandwich.
BLT anyone?
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:30 last edited by
"Reuben sandwich" still makes sense to say. "Hot dog sandwich" sounds like you just got off the boat and you're reading from a tourist translation card.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:31 last edited by
Nobody says Ruben "sandwich" it makes you sound like you just got off the boat and you're reading from a tourist translation card.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:33 last edited by
No it just makes you sound like you're from Ohio.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:34 last edited by
LOL!
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:35 last edited by
I find it enormously tiresome when burger places refer to the burger in a bun as a sandwich.
The Earl of Sandwich would not approve, and neither should you.
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No it just makes you sound like you're from Ohio.
wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:39 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
No it just makes you sound like you're from Ohio.
Elitist bastard.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 14:42 last edited by
And consider: that comment came from a guy whose high school still features a gun rack!
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 15:11 last edited by
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:20 last edited by
My original post had a poll. I actually saw results!
What happened to it?
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“Do you think a hot dog is a sandwich?” I asked a friend the other day, in preparation for this article.
“It’s not the most typical referent for ‘sandwich,’” he mused. “But if someone said, ‘We’re only having sandwiches at this event,’ I wouldn’t be surprised if I showed up and hot dogs were part of the food.”
“Would you be surprised if they served slices of pizza folded in half?” I asked.
“Yeah,” he admitted.
“How are those different from hot dogs?”
“I’ll get back to you,” he said.
“A hot dog meets all the necessary and sufficient conditions to make a sandwich,” another friend insisted. “It’s a thing inside two pieces of bread. The shape of the bread doesn’t matter.”
“But a hot dog doesn’t have two pieces of bread,” I said. “It’s one piece of bread that’s folded.”
“Subway sandwiches aren’t always cut the whole way through,” he countered. “But you think those are sandwiches, right?”
“I guess,” I said.
wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:34 last edited by Klaus 4 Nov 2020, 20:34@George-K said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
It’s a thing inside two pieces of bread. The shape of the bread doesn’t matter.
And that's how the mathematical branch of topology was born.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:38 last edited by
@George-K said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
My original post had a poll. I actually saw results!
What happened to it?
That's weird, I saw it too.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:43 last edited by
Heck, I voted in it.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:48 last edited by
Fucking Russians.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:49 last edited by
Well, this place is broke. Back to Tapatalk.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:51 last edited by
FWIW my Ketchup poll is still there.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 20:52 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
FWIW my Ketchup poll is still there.
I'll have to catch up, apparently.