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See, this kind of thing is what I love about an open askbox with no specific topic requirements, because this fascinates me. I tend to think no, but part of that is because hot dog buns are typically jointed, so they’re more like one foldy piece of bread than two, but… I don’t know. They don’t feel sandwich-like to me, I guess.

Counterpoint: heroes are on jointed bread and they’re definitely sandwiches.

hot dog is not sammich because it is *a thing* in breads instead of *stuff* in breads.

Bullshit. Is a peanut butter sandwich not a sandwich if you don’t put anything else on?

peanut butter is stuff though?  like, *a* hot dog is one self contained thing that comes in a pre-determined size, but peanut butter is a continuous mass.  you put A hot dog in a bun, you put SOME peanut butter on bread.

but if you put a single slice of ham on bread, it’s still a ham sandwich. CHECKMATE ATHEISTS.

A HAM SLICE IS STUFF BECAUSE IT’S FLAT. 

A HOTDOG IS A THING BECAUSE IT’S ROUND. 

if you put a tomato between bread, that would not be a sandwich, that would be fucked up. you have to slice the tomato and put a slice in. then it’s a sandwich. 

so if you slice the hotdog and put it back in the bun it’s a sandwich?

edit: the atlantic says it’s not a sandwich but their reasoning does not seem sound to me http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/its-not-a-sandwich/414352/

the bun would make the hotdog round again, so no. but if you sliced the hotdog and put it between flatter bread then yes. 

behold: an inarguable hotdog sandwich

ohhhhh? then WHAT IS THIS

*touchdown dance*

that’s clearly a fucking sandwich, smartass. it’s got sliced components and is horizontal. i’m talking about if you took a hot dog, sliced it in half, and put both slices back in the bun, it would not magically be a sandwich because the slices would move back into approximately cylindrical hotdog configuration. this like how if you take a slice of sandwich bread and put it around a whole hotdog, it becomes a hotdog bun and the hotdog is still not a sandwich.  

on a tangent, no matter how sliced and sandwichy the components, if they were put in a taco shell, they would stop being sandwichy and just be a (gross) taco. 

WHAT IF YOU PUT FLAT THINGS BETWEEN TWO FLAT TORTILLAS WHAT WOULD THAT BE A SANDWICH OR A QUESADILLA OR A FAIL TACO OR

THIS IS EXCITING

THIS IS SCIENCE

THIS IS EXCITING.
Everyone pretty much agrees that a sandwich is edible stuff between two breads.  Our cultural definition is coherent so far.
littlepinkbeast further requires that the edible contents be stuff-y, rather than thing-y.
roach’s definition posits that thing-like stuff is round, and stuff-ish stuff is flat.
jumpingjacktrash and aetherbox raise the point that sometimes the type of bread surrounding the contents ALSO changes the name/definition of the sandwich: fr’ex, taco, pita, quesadilla (which must contain cheese, but what if it is IMPROPER CHEESE, like blue or cottage?), or naan or sub or gyro.

And I ask:  How sweet can it be before it is no longer considered a sandwich? Because I have had WAFFLE SANDWICHES that were absolutely sandwiches, but once you add nutella and whipped cream to the bananas, they shade into tiramisu territory and become a dessert.

Also, I’m pretty sure that nothing wrapped in a crepe is a sandwich, but does this also apply to other thin wraps like tortillas?  Must it be leavened breadstuff to count as a sandwich?

and what about when the outsidey bits aren’t breadstuff? what about peanut butter between two slices of apple, is that a sandwich? my brain says no but my heart says yes.

a hot dog is obviously a taco. this thread is bananas

this is all so completely illegal

@shanlad SHANNON HELP ME

I would honestly posit we need to look at “sandwich” as at minimum a genus and at maximum probably a phylum. We could call “sandwich” a family and then move that “sausage roll” is the genus and that hot dog is a species of sausage roll, a genus that would also include things like brats, sausage and peppers, and other sausage sandwiches specifically served on sausage rolls. Which means that the family of sandwich can also include a genus for flat sausage sandwiches like knoblewurst or bologna, both of which are technically sausages in construction but are served on sliced bread, which are then not to be confused with the genus “hero” which would be any sliced item sandwich on a hinged roll with included species being “cheesesteaks” and “grinders”.

But if I asked for a hot dog sandwich, I would receive a sliced hot dog, grilled between two slices of bread, not an in tact jot dog on a bun

And as a native Philadelphian I van say that although I do not identify hoagies and cheese steaks as sandwiches, I have heard the language “cheese steak sandwich”

That being said is a pita filled with stuff a sandwich?

See I don’t think anyone would ever order a “hot dog sandwich”. So maybe sandwich is not a family but more of an order? They phylum then would be street food, class “handheld”, order “sandwich”, which then gives was to various suborders. So all street foods that can be handheld and lets say served in a carbohydrate shell is of the order of sandwich, when then can fracture into suborders of things like: sausage rolls (hot dogs, brats, sausage and peppers, etc), heroes/hoagies (cheesesteaks, grinders, etc), pockets (pita/shawarma not gyro, arepas, pupusas, bun style bao, etc), and folded (handheld tortilla sandwiches like tacos/quesadillas/burritos, gyros, and open style bao, etc).

Idk but I do think biological nomenclature is the way to dig into the question.

Welp, im hungry now