Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?
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Absolutely! All fruits (in this context) are vegetables because they are plants or parts of plants consumed as food. They're all fruit because of their botanical classification, but not all are equal in the kitchen.
It's correct to say that a tomato is a vegetable. It's not correct to say that a tomato is not a fruit.
To further complicate things, my favorite fruit pie is rhubarb. Rhubarb is not a botanical fruit even if it's commonly treated as one in the gastronomical sense.
Grape Nuts are neither grapes nor nuts, rather they're a processed cereal grain product (indeed my personal favorite)...which means they're made from fruit (specifically caryopses).
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You guys are high. Hot Dog's aren't sandwiches even if it makes sense in your head. Stop saying tomatoes are fruit & stop putting cheese on your damn hot dog sandwiches!
It's sandwiched between bread. Of course it's a sandwich! And the less said about your anti cheese hot dog agenda the better.
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Hey. I want you to record yourself next time you are at a hot dog stand. And ask for sandwich. If the man questions your terminology, I want to see you insisting that it's a sandwich on this video. When you post this video on here, I will concede the point. If things get violent, make sure not to pan away I hate that.
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!Exactly. Hot dogs are ubiquitous and yet unique enough, that we don't need to place them into a broader category. Pretty much everyone knows what a hot dog consists of. There may be different ways of preparing a hot dog; some may be longer than others, some may have a ludicrous amount of condiments and toppings, the social acceptability of specific condiments may vary from place to place (regional differences between hot dogs in New York and Chicago are a classic example); but those would be different varieties of hot dogs.
Trying to tell someone a hot dog is a sandwich only serves to introduce confusion to a generally, well understood food. If you order a wiener or frankfurter sandwich, don't be surprised if they don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Clearly understood language is a wonderful thing, let's not ruin that by trying to add confusion to it.Let's instead just call it a hot dog, and leave future historians to figure out what it is later, it will be funny.
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That depends on how rubbish you are with a breadknife.
For my part, to make sure this contentious issue doesn't escalate into something of the Protestant/Catholic or Shia/Sunni variety, I say we take control and create a bulletproof set of terminology here and now. Here are my suggestions;
High Temperature Canine Eating Device
Low Quality Sausage Bread Ensemble
MK.1 Eating Device (beige/orange model)
Dubious Meat Bun Arrangement
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Sausage Bun Sandwich
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We could, you know... call it by what it is... Hot dog bun....
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@TexRex has a gif for that, no doubt about it.
It's a roll. Don't start arguing bread names, we'll be here forever, ya barm.
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No no, it's definitely a bun. Rolls are fairly different i believe. A roll, while it can be used as a bun, equally and generally stands on its own, maybe with butter, in a meal. A bun however is almost always used as a vessel for the meal.
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I'm in agreement with you about a bun as a vessel, but I'd argue the two terms can be used interchangeably when it comes to hot dogs. Consider the substitution of a frankfurter with lobster salad and the popular term for the resulting concoction.
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Alright, don't get a cob on.
You're not wrong. But it is still a sandwich.
Exactly. Hot dogs are ubiquitous and yet unique enough, that we don't need to place them into a broader category. Pretty much everyone knows what a hot dog consists of. There may be different ways of preparing a hot dog; some may be longer than others, some may have a ludicrous amount of condiments and toppings, the social acceptability of specific condiments may vary from place to place (regional differences between hot dogs in New York and Chicago are a classic example); but those would be different varieties of hot dogs.
Trying to tell someone a hot dog is a sandwich only serves to introduce confusion to a generally, well understood food. If you order a wiener or frankfurter sandwich, don't be surprised if they don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Let's instead just call it a hot dog, and leave future historians to figure out what it is later, it will be funny.
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Because that's what it's called. It'd be served on a hot dog roll if that's what it was called. But a bun is a roll is a bun is a roll.
Oof.
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Is it? The weird bit about hot dogs is that the sausage is placed in a slotted bun/roll (
). You could slice the bun completely in two and sandwich the sausage, that would transform it into a hot dog sandwich, but it is not typically served that way, not to mention that it becomes considerably more difficult to eat once the bun/roll is in two separate pieces.I'd say a hamburger is more closely related to sandwiches than a hot dog is, because a hamburger is a true sandwich.
I don't consider a hot dog to be a taco either. I have never seen anything referred to as a taco that didn't at least involve a tortilla of some kind. The hot dog really is quite unique in how it doesn't really fit into either the taco or sandwich category that well.
It depends on how the bun is sliced.
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Ever had a Bahn Mi? Made with a baguette sliced similarly to a hot dog bun with meat and condiments on the inside. Would you consider that a sandwich?
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Soooo, what does Subway sell?
In a way, yes. Perhaps it is not a true sandwich, however? If it had a wiener or frankfurter as the meat, that would be an over-sized hot dog.
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Subs. And really good cookies.Soooo, what does Subway sell?
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