Is a hotdog a sandwich? Seriously!

[MT-JONAS]

Since when is a hotdog meat? Have you watched videos of the manufacturing process?

 

[Greatgrandad]

Ahh, a hotdog by any other name still tastes as sweet.
Every so often, an item comes along that is so special, it is its own category.

 

[Calvin45]

A protein between two carbs.

My dad sometimes skips the meat! He's an old farmer and avid gardener, there is nothing he loves more than a fresh garden veggie sandwich. I recall many times growing up he'd have the biggest grin on his face eating a sandwich of moms homemade bread, with butter, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, and tomatoes from the garden with salt and pepper. A farmers sandwich.

Of course, being a cattle and grain operation there was always beef around, he'd typically grill up a steak to make up the difference later that day


But seriously…meat or no meat, a fresh toasted tomato sandwich with salt and pepper is a beautiful thing in itself

 

[Calvin45]

NOPE, it's a sausage, look at the origins..... A sammy needs 2 slices of bread, sliced meat or veggies. Not cased meat even though modern dogs are not cased, the original was... just my .02

You're overthinking it man!!!!

 

[Brewer]

You're overthinking it man!!!!

Calvin, we are politely going to have to ask you to leave...

All the other comments and links a
Have been super informative.

I wonder if the hotdogs transcends the common sandwich and is not only not in a subset or type of sandwich, but it is some how superior to sandwiches in general. Like the king of England is somehow a citizen of the country but vastly different. Do you know what I mean? Or maybe its like harry, the red headed royal hasbeen that really has royal blood but has been carelessly cast aside by a general public that thinks itself superior...

 

[Brewer]

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A "sandwich" requires two pieces of sliced bread. So, I say NO, a hotdog is not a sandwich. But does it matter? LOL

I Can appreciate your thought here, but then that would disqualify the "submarine" sandwich. Then one thing that this argument has going for it is the fact that the sub sandwich has 'sandwich in its name. I haven't heard anybody call a hotdog a 'hotdogs sandwich'. But again, does that just mean the hotdogs, whether refuring to the sausage or the 'sandwich' version, is called by a singular name?

 

[eshell]

I think a 'standard' hotdog (served on a bun) IS a sandwich, as long as no one puts ketchup on it.

 

[Dean2]

A Steak does not become a Steak Sandwich until you put a toasted slice of bread under it. There are lots of examples of open faced sandwiches, hot roast beef, hot turkey etc. So a wiener by itself, is a hot dog, put it in bread or a bun, seams like a sandwich to me.

 

[K.E.C. Darkside]

My dad sometimes skips the meat! He's an old farmer and avid gardener, there is nothing he loves more than a fresh garden veggie sandwich. I recall many times growing up he'd have the biggest grin on his face eating a sandwich of moms homemade bread, with butter, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, and tomatoes from the garden with salt and pepper. A farmers sandwich.

Of course, being a cattle and grain operation there was always beef around, he'd typically grill up a steak to make up the difference later that day


But seriously…meat or no meat, a fresh toasted tomato sandwich with salt and pepper is a beautiful thing in itself

Vegetable sandwich, all a couple slices of meat and in Wv it's called a Hoagie.

I love Hot Dogs.
Add chili and cheese on a hotdog bun.(chili dog )
Call it what you like, wow I'm getting hungry.