Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Absolutely. So are tacos and gyros.
Yes. A few weeks ago, some coworkers and I mapped out the entire sandwich taxonomy. You attain sandwich nirvana once you derive these definitions:
- Hot dog is a taco.
- Taco is a subcategory of sandwich.
- If the sandwich contains an additional piece of bread inside of it, it is now a lasagna.
- Lasagna is a subcategory of sandwich. 🤯
Now it all makes sense. Be at peace.
Lasagne is pasta not bread though?
Starch is starch
So if a sandwich just requires starch and fillings, could a baked potato be a sandwich?
You could slice it nearly in half, fill it, and then pick it up and eat it.
Potato bread exists.
Are all foods just sandwiches?
So if a sandwich just requires starch and fillings, could a baked potato be a sandwich?
Yes.
Are all foods just sandwiches?
No. Soups aren’t sandwiches. Nor is steak.
CMV: pasta is an unleavened bread
- Sandwiches are just a layered salad
- Salad is just a drier soup
Therefore tacos are soup
IMO the existence of soup in a bread bowl shows that tacos and soup are even closer to each other, evolutionarily, than most scientists think.
And bread is just a baked soup
So is a bowl of cereal soup or salad?
I find US Americans to be unreliable narrators when it comes to bready foods. They’ll often shoehorn foods from different cultures into their narrow categories.
At one point I was pretty broke and bought the super cheap hotdogs and basic sliced sandwich bread for use as buns.
Still considered them to be hotdogs, despite being sandwich shaped.If a hoagie or hero is a sandwich, then it is only logical that a hotdog is also a sandwich.
EDIT: Since my criteria here has been cited by others and this comment, as initially presented, contributes very little to the discussion, I am amending this comment with the following information: Based on Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary (at least my memory of it; been a few years), the hot dog has its genesis with guys selling food outside of a baseball park. They were selling sausages that were coiled, and served on a bun. The buns ran out and so they grabbed some Italian bread sold nearby, cutting the sausages and laying them in the bread, sliced sideways. This posits that the foundational concept of the hotdog was a conventional sandwich.
A hot dog is a taco
Tacos are on tortillas.
Hmmm, if I put all the internal ingredients of a taco on a single slice of bread and fold it, am I eating a taco or a Mexican themed sloppy joe?
Both, because tacos are a type of sandwich
Does the presence of a product made from ground grain always result in whatever is served on them becoming a sandwich?
Yes.
Layer cake?
Bread sandwich
It is a taco.
And I would posit that a taco is a type of sandwich. Therefore, a hot dog is a sandwich.
I strongly believe that two (or more) separate pieces of bread are what defines sandwichness. Therefore, no, a hot dog generally uses a bun.
That would exclude subs, banh mi, hoagies, baguette with butter and ham (possibly one of the greatest sandwiches), and the breakfast sandwich (egg, sausage, cheese, on English muffin). Better definition is needed.
So an open-faced sandwich isn’t a sandwich despite having “sandwich” in the name?
So subway doesn’t serve sandwiches?
I’ve only been once, years ago, but I thought a “sub” was a bread roll / baguette type thing. If so, then, no, I wouldn’t call it a sandwich.
Subway definitely serves sandwiches, and according to the above definition, a hotdog is as well.
A hot dog is not a sandwich because most people do not call a hot dog a sandwich.
The definitions of words exist based on how we use them to communicate, not to fit into perfectly logical and consistent boxes.
Neither it’s a taco
No. It’s in the subcategory of bread based meals like sandwiches and pizza, scones, etc. The topology is different. Sandwiches are built with layers. Hot dogs have a bread cup/container with extra condiments wedged on top.
Hot dogs also require a sausage. Sandwiches are agnostic to sausages.
If the bun splits along the fold into two separate halves, does the hotdog become a sandwich?
A hot dog can be, but is not always, a sandwich.
Well, if you’re riding your bike and a wheel falls off does it become a unicycle?
Subs here split a length of baguette or Cuban bread, or long bun. But not all the way through. Then they open it like a hot dog bun & put in the fillings. I hate hot dogs but if a sub is a sandwich, a hot dog is a sandwich.
No. Sandwich involves two slices of bread. A hot dog bun is, at best, considered one folded slice.
“An open faced sandwich is not a sandwich” is a bold take.
“Open face sandwitch” is only a sandwich if it comes from the Sandwich region of the UK. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling smörgås/brødskive/bread with spread or topping
Excuse me, but “2 slices of bread” rule for me is nonsense. I do sandwiches by cutting a baguette in the lenght without separating in two parts. Maybe it’s due to different cultural interpretations, but for me hot dog is a sandwich, just a specific one
I mean a sub is one bread cut in half
Yes, and that’s why it’s called a sub. But if you have to be really picky about it, the fact that it’s two separated halves kinda makes it also a sandwich
“Sub” is short for “submarine sandwich”. So…
A “sub” is called that because it’s shaped like a submarine
Are you saying a Clubhouse, that is made with three slices of bread, is not a sandwich?
Yes. A sandwich can be closed on one and open on the other side
What holiday features hotdogs as it’s traditional food?
Memorial day, 4th of July, etc. Not that hotdog is the only traditional food. But is one of the foods typically eaten on those days.
“Any object or objects that is “sandwiched” (i.e. surrounded in the middle) by another object or objects can be classified as a sandwich.”
Tacos, hotdogs, burritos, hell even sushi, are all sandwiches.
Butts are sandwiches. So are disc brakes.
