Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?
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In America (and maybe Canada?) flapjacks are pancakes. The term "flapjack" is not used nearly as often as "pancakes", but I'd guess that it's used in this case because of the word "cake" in "pancake" being too suggestive that it actually belongs in the "cake" category. The idea is for it to be fairly funny and obnoxious, so if it literally says "cake" in the word, it doesn't come off as being quite as funny.
It's not a problem in the US that we use "flapjack" for pancake. Nobody gets confused, because we simply don't have/eat what you're calling a flapjack
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Food for thought:
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Oxford Dictionary says:
"An article of food for a light meal or snack, composed of two thin slices of bread, usually buttered, with a savoury (originally spec. meat, esp. beef or ham) or other filling."
So no, the hotdog is not a Sandwich.
"An article of food for a light meal or snack, composed of two thin slices of bread, usually buttered, with a savoury (originally spec. meat, esp. beef or ham) or other filling."
So no, the hotdog is not a Sandwich.
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Coincidentally there's been a major, related legal development:
Indiana judge opens door for new eatery, finding `tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches'
An Indiana judge has cleared the way for the opening of a new restaurant after finding that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches."
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Could the guy not have just opened his store in a different plaza rather than trying to convince them for 3 years and taking it to court?Coincidentally there's been a major, related legal development:
Indiana judge opens door for new eatery, finding `tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches'
An Indiana judge has cleared the way for the opening of a new restaurant after finding that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches."
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It's not his store. It's his plaza. He purchased property which had been re-zoned from single-family residential to limited commercial. The new zoning places restrictions on the nature of commercial development. Upon learning the nature of the business to be opened on the property that he'd developed, with rental commitments established, the city planning commission from whom he secured development permission objected.
The ruling doesn't actually define tacos as sandwiches, rather it establishes the nature of the business as complying with the spirit of the restrictions, and it includes language which isn't legally binding ("dicta") that has since been latched onto because it's humorous.
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