Is the hot dog a sandwich?

[George K]

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/4/9/21214870/hot-dog-sandwich-debate-quiz-alignment-website?ICID=ref_fark

“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.

[mark]

Yes. Of course it's a sandwich.

[Aqua Letifer]

No one except for someone starting week 1 of a TSOL class would ever order a "hot dog sandwich."

[mark]

It doesn't require the word "sandwich" in the title to be a sandwich.

BLT anyone?

[Aqua Letifer]

"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.

[mark]

Nobody says Ruben "sandwich" it makes you sound like you just got off the boat and you're reading from a tourist translation card.

[Aqua Letifer]

No it just makes you sound like you're from Ohio.

[mark]

LOL!

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Mik]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:

No it just makes you sound like you're from Ohio.

Elitist bastard.

[Aqua Letifer]

And consider: that comment came from a guy whose high school still features a gun rack!

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

My original post had a poll. I actually saw results!

What happened to it?

[Klaus]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[LuFins Dad]

Heck, I voted in it.

[jon-nyc]

Fucking Russians.

[LuFins Dad]

Well, this place is broke. Back to Tapatalk.

[jon-nyc]

FWIW my Ketchup poll is still there.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Is the hot dog a sandwich?:

FWIW my Ketchup poll is still there.

I'll have to catch up, apparently.