My brain is melting... What is a taco classified as?! If you fold a pizza slice in half is it still a slice of pizza?

My world is falling apart

Then it becomes an apple!

What the hell is a corn dog??? Why did someone do this to us, Acetoolguy You are evil.

collapses in a faint

hot dog

or hot·dog (h?t′d?g′, -d?g′)

A frankfurter between 2 slices of bread would be a sausage sandwich. A frankfurter in a roll is a hotdog.

A taco isn't a sandwich either. Neither is a folded piece of pizza, calzone, etc. If it's not between pieces of bread, it's not a sandwich.

I don't care if it's a sandwich or not but now I want one. Tomato wedge, pickle, onions and a nice spicy brown mustard. Mmmhmm.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hot-dogs-sandwiches-national-hot-dog-sausage-council/story?id=35033051

I say yes, therefore case closed.

Thank the gods the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council was able to confirm this for us lesser folk! If only I, a mere peasant, could bask in their presence...

"Especially" does not equal "only." I've had plenty of "hot dogs" served with 2 pieces of bread from a sliced loaf. When I can buy 3 loaves of bread for the price of 8 buns, I'll take that route sometimes

May I counter with http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hotdog's definition?:

1. a frankfurter.

2. a sandwich consisting of a frankfurter in a split roll, usually eaten with mustard, sauerkraut, or relish.

Hot dogs are not sausages, in my opinion. Sausages have spices added to them that "hot dogs" do not. They also "seem" to be differing sources of meat than hot dogs

hehehe... this thread is resembling that old "Is this dress black and blue, or gold and white?" thread

Woah, I missed national sandwich day? Why didn't anyone tell me this exists!

This is possibly even more critical an issue than that was

Yes it is an open faced sandwich, just like tacos. The real question is: Are http://images.edge-generalmills.com/6bbbcf38-a8ba-48dd-b419-4eea38283c53.jpg a sandwich?

Depends on what pigs in a blanket you're referring to. Around my area "Pigs in a blanket" are typically hotdogs wrapped in bacon with brown sugar or maple syrup drizzled over them and baked in an oven. Absolutely delicious. But I'm also aware that in other places Pigs in a Blanket refer to hotdogs encased in like half a crescent roll or something of the sort. Not sure if that would qualify as a sandwich though. Time to contact the White-House and get a ruling from our supreme leader!!!!

On this matter of tremendous import I can only say...yes, it's a sandwich.

On the matter of the open sandwich - I can remember ordering my first one not really being sure what they were and feeling thoroughly cheated. Only one slice of bread. What a mean and stingy con.

This has been a debate in some other circles of the web that I haunt.

Lets see what the Bethesda community thinks!

Happy voting!

No. A hotdog is cooked sausage that can possible be put on bread or a bun. That is not a sandwich. That's like asking if a hamburger is a salad for having veggies on it.

No, a hot dog is a hot dog! They are their own thing, independent of sandwiches.

Ooh, hamburgers! Also not sandwiches.

a sandwich is *stuff* between 2 slices of bread (that stuff often also being sliced)

hot dogs exist in 2 forms i know:

1) classic us hot dog are sliced on _one_ side

2) in some european (and probably other) regions, hot dogs are not sliced _at_all_, they'll cut off one end off the bread and stick the sausage _into_ it.

so, in neither case a hot dog meets the precondition of "2 slices", you'd at least have to completely cut through the bread (and even then, it's still not SLICES of bread, but a whole breadroll)

so, from the bread alone, a hot dog is _not_ a sandwich.

along the same line, i think it's very arguable if putting a _complete_object_ (sausage) into bread makes a sandwich, or if it also has to be slices / pieces - i do think it has to anyway, else a "hamburger" would qualify as a "sandwich" as well, which i don't think it does.

...and not even talking classic sandwich definitions, old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich would revolve in his grave if he saw this thread

(like, according to that, it'd have to slices of white wheat bread, etc etc)

Well apparently in culinary society any thing put in bread is classified as a sandwhich. Even pizza supposedly is technically an open faced sandwhich. But I refuse to except that.


A hot dog though, I coukd see it falling under the sandwich umbrella being as it is stuffed between bread.

I'm another one who sees hot-dogs and burgers as somehow being exceptions to the world of sandwiches: they're their own thing. Even though I accept that a sausage sandwich is a sandwich: it's not entirely the same, though, and it claims to be a sandwich whereas a hot-dog doesn't.

Edit: argh, it's suddenly gone all historical on me. D: The previous poll options were better; I chose "maybe", for the record.

Well, of course, when you argue in broadstrokes that "When you stuff this in bread, it's a sandwich." you can fit just about any meal as a 'sandwich'. I don't accept the notion that pizzas or hotdogs to be a type of sandwich either.

copying this from the link from my last post:

The sandwich

The modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling table.^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich#cite_note-21} Lord Sandwich was a very conversant gambler, the story goes, and he did not take the time to have a meal during his long hours playing at the card table. Consequently, he would ask his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant to bring him slices of meat between two slices of bread, a habit well known among his gambling friends. Other people, according to this account, began to order "the same as Sandwich!", and thus the "sandwich" was born.^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich#cite_note-22} The sober alternative to this account is provided by Sandwich's biographer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._A._M._Rodger, who suggests that Sandwich's commitments to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy, to politics, and to the arts mean that the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his work desk.

I'd argue that a sandwich should be relatively small and portable, which excludes pizza.