Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?

[DaLittle B]

Ok Internet debate similar to Gif,and toilet paper....(I'm a G-if guy,and I prefer my toilet paper over)

Is a Hot Dog a sandwich?








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

[Phishfan]

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

[fyo]

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.

[Fau Teixeira]

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

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Yes. 

[CF DolFan]

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

[suck for luck]

No.

[masterfins]

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.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Definition of sandwich
1 a :two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between

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."   

[Dave Gray]

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.

[Sunstroke]

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

[Tenshot13]

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

[Fau Teixeira]

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

yes obviously

[masterfins]

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."   

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.     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.

[Dave Gray]

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



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.