Is a HotDog a sandwich?

[Ealyssa]

This is a valid point. A sandwich requires 2 pieces of bread.

Only stupid cut the bread in 2 pieces for a meatball sandwich.



Cuting your bread in half = best way to have sauce everywhere except in your mouth.

I now gonna make me a sandwich, because this thread made me hungry !!!

[Saucerian]

No. A bun, while technically bread, is simply not fashioned for typical sandwich ingredients.

They are for holding sausages and that's about it.

Sandwich requires sliced bread or a roll.

[Dug]

You make a compelling argument so I put yes but my heart says no, because a hot dog bun is technically a single piece of bread

[Saucerian]

A hot dog would be more accurately called a wrap than a sandwich.

[Independent voter]

It's more like a taco/sandwhich hybrid.

[The Casualty]

A Hot dog is barely edible food, let alone a sandwich.

[Alvito]

SO a hotdog is a burger you're saying

Coming to a gas station near you, the burger dog!

[Heladys]

Technically yes, it is a sandwich. No sane person could say otherwise.

[schwank05]

Nope, neither is a Hamburger. A sandwich to me is sliced deli meats or other sliced meats on bread. Not a Bun

[Alvito]

Hot dogs are not a sandwich by technicality. The "pieces" of the bread are connected to each other, which makes it one piece, not two. Therefore, it is not a sandwich.

So subs aren't sandwiches? Hoagies, grinders, heroes or whatever you want to call them. Po boys are another great example. Plenty of sandwiches come on one piece of bread cut mostly in half.

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Nope, neither is a Hamburger. A sandwich to me is sliced deli meats or other sliced meats on bread. Not a Bun

What makes a bun not bread?

[Heladys]

Those.... things.... you call hotdogs are not even close to a proper saucage and what you call a bun is nowhere near proper bread

What the fuck is a saucage?

We're talking about hot dogs here.

[Jibjub]

I voted no and here's why.

If someone asked, "Hey bro, do you want a sandwich?" And I replied, "Yes." And then I was given a hotdog in a bun. I would be confused and upset.

You have to look at more than just definitions ... there is connotation, as well as denotation. That's why a I wouldn't consider a cheese burger a sandwich, either. Even though it's definition has "sandwich" right there in it.

[Frozen Death Knight]

So subs aren't sandwiches? Hoagies, grinders, heroes or whatever you want to call them. Po boys are another great example. Plenty of sandwiches come on one piece of bread cut mostly in half.

In the OP, the definition of a sandwich was "two pieces of bread". A hot dog is not two pieces, but one. Therefore, it stands to reason that it is not a sandwich by said definition.

[Heladys]

In the OP, the definition of a sandwich was "two pieces of bread". A hot dog is not two pieces, but one. Therefore, it stands to reason that it is not a sandwich by said definition.

The definition is wrong. There is no necessity for two pieces of bread.

An open-faced sandwich is a sandwich - it's right there in the name. That's typically built on a single piece.

[caervek]

The definition is wrong.

The issue we are having in this thread is that the is no longer just one definition. A sandwich is normally two slices of bread with filling in between, But in America it apparently means any bread object containing something else :P

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And that's the definition of sandwich in your country too, btw.

Your quote agrees with what I said...

[Nibelheimy]

In the OP, the definition of a sandwich was "two pieces of bread". A hot dog is not two pieces, but one. Therefore, it stands to reason that it is not a sandwich by said definition.

There we have it.

[caervek]

It's a quote from the Oxford-English dictionary.

I know, I was just pointing out it's saying the same thing I was.

It agrees with what I said that in the UK the same rules apply for a sandwich.

The USA obviously doesn't apply the same rules though as they appear to consider buns/rolls/subs as sandwiches too.

[Reeve]

I'd suggest that in a sandwich the bread is integral to the platonic ideal of the thing. With a hot dog, the bread is merely the meat delivery system.

[caervek]

My point is that the word means what it means.

Like I said it has different meanings, the Americans aren't trying to say that the country who invented sandwiches has it wrong, just that Americans use the word to mean something else (referring to both sandwiches and most other types of filled bread snacks as sandwiches).

[Phookah]

I'd suggest that in a sandwich the bread is integral to the platonic ideal of the thing. With a hot dog, the bread is merely the meat delivery system.

Exactly. I might think to myself when ordering a sub or something about what kind of bread I want as it can make or break a good sandwich, but with a hotdog its just "gimme a bun".