Is the hot dog a sandwich?
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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.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 21:08 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?
I also noticed that polls sometimes disappear. They seem to reappear when you press "reload". I can't explain this behavior at the moment.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 21:11 last edited by
Don't sell yourself short, Klaus, you just did explain it.
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@George-K said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
My original post had a poll. I actually saw results!
What happened to it?
I also noticed that polls sometimes disappear. They seem to reappear when you press "reload". I can't explain this behavior at the moment.
wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 21:15 last edited by@Klaus said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:
I also noticed that polls sometimes disappear. They seem to reappear when you press "reload". I can't explain this behavior at the moment.
Indeed, it just did!
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wrote on 11 Apr 2020, 21:57 last edited by
4 people are wrong.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 01:35 last edited by
Always consider the enhanced version...
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 03:23 last edited by
Is a grinder/sub/hoagie a sandwich? Is an Italian sausage in a hoagie roll a sausage? If you said yes, then how is a hot dog in a bun not a sandwich?
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 12:39 last edited by
Is a pocketed pita filled with meat and vegetables a sandwich?
Is a lobster roll a sandwich?
Is an “open face sandwich” a sandwich?
Using meat/vegetables as the origin, must you only have bread (or bread like things) on two opposite sites of the meat/vegetables to be a sandwich?
Can you have bread on three sides and still be a sandwich?
How about bread on only one side, like the “open face sandwich”?
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 12:53 last edited by
I still see the poll.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 13:09 last edited by
I didn’t just now, then reloaded and it reappeared.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 15:38 last edited by
I see my passionate and well reasoned argument has helped turn the tide back towards the hotdog being a sandwich.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 15:41 last edited by
If you said “make me a sammich” and that person gave you a hot dog what would you think?
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 15:42 last edited by
Thanks for getting a new avatar, Loki.
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 15:42 last edited by
LuFin = Carnap, Loki = Wittgenstein