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Is a Hot Dog a sandwich?








My answer...If it's served on a bun,yep, no bun,nope.

I personally don't consider a hot dog or a hamburger a sandwich but technically I guess they both fall into the definition.

Unless you're splitting your bun completely in two, a hot dog doesn't live up to the "between pieces of bread" part of the definition of a sandwich.

What kind of sandwich definition are we looking at to get a hotdog to fit?

And any definition that's broad enough to admit a hotdog would appear to also include burritos, tacos, gyros, and basically any food with a bread element used in some way as "packaging". This would include pretty much anything with any kind of flatbread.

A burger is a much more interesting question.

if a sub that still has connecting bread .. like publix subs counts as a sandwich .. then a hot dog counts

Yes. 

Yes, I can't see how it wouldn't be.

No.

No, a hot dog is not a sandwich, nor is a sub/hero/poor boy/hoagie a sandwich.  They are what they are, not a sandwich.

So subs, heros, hotdogs - yes.  Tacos, burrito, or gyro no. 

But then again I am one of those snowflake elitist liberals that considers the DICTIONARY a more reliable source for the definition of a word than "random guy on the internet."   

Dictionaries don't define words.  People do.  Dictionaries do their best to interpret how a language uses a word.

Believe it or not, you can't really use a dictionary to definitively define a word.  It just guides you in the right direction as to how the word was being used when that dictionary was written.

Ham and cheese on rye = Sandwich
Hot dog = Hot dog

Is an ice cream sandwich a sandwich?  It's in the name....

yes obviously

I see your Miriam Webster definition, and I raise you a Boston, Massachusetts court that ruled in 2006 that a sandwich consists of at least two slices of bread.   :D  At it's most basic definition a sandwich consists of two slices of bread.  There are variations, and extrapolations of the basic sandwich, such as a hero, but they do not conform to the original basic definition of a sandwich.

Sorry I'm late to this party.  I follow THIS gif:

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As such, I consider anything with traditional ingredients a sandwich...so to me, a wrap is a sandwich.
For traditional structure, I will allow moderate ingredients (like a chip butty), but that's it.

A hot dog does not meet that criteria, thus it is not a sandwich.

I am true neutral

i'm structure neutral, ingredient rebel

I want one of those structure neutral, ingredient rebel ice cream taco things. Of course, at some point you might as well just take the taco and make it more like a wrap, maybe open at the top, and then what you have is just an ice cream cone. Always disappointed with the cone.

After careful consideration, I'm probably structural purist, ingredient neutral, although bordering on hardliner. If the deviation from a layered structure in the ingredients is too great, I wouldn't really consider it a sandwich anymore.

I just love the term "Radical Sandwich Anarchy"...  ;D

This thread unexpectedly delivered.

I'm somewhere between true neutral,and structural purist-ingredient rebel...

I can just see it.  Family Fued, final question have 197 points need 3 more, we surveyed a hundred people name your favorite sandwich, you said pop tarts.  Is it there? Buzz sorry.

That line would be even better if it was the original host, Richard Dawson, delivering it...

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