Greatgrandad
Well-Known Member
Maybe we are asking the wrong question.
What is a hotdog?
What is a hotdog?
Calvin, you are killing me but you are wrong, maybe rightI
Okay okay I'll play along!!!!
Upon deep introspection and analysis of the data I believe this is a classic case of "letter of the law vs spirit of the law". Or of the difference between wisdom and knowledge.
The classic example being
"knowledge is knowing that a tomato is technically a fruit. Wisdom is not putting tomatoes in a fruit salad".
I think technically yes absolutely a hot dog is a subset, an individual species, "Frankfurticus Maximus" or "Schnitzelschack Americanus" perhaps of the genus "A. Sandwichii" - it's meat in between bun/bread product, technically a sandwich. Letter of the law sandwich. Knowledge sandwich.
But I argue that in the spirit of the law and wisdom and common sense…
A HOT DOG IS NOT A SANDWICH.
You could argue it is and use a dictionary and technicalities and letter of the law reasoning and knowledge divorced from reason…..
But the REAL PROOF is in your heart, your gut reaction, your intrinsic knowledge that you don't have to convince yourself is true, because you just know it, in your bones….the REAL PROOF is that if your friend walked up to you with some hot dogs and said
"Hey man I got us some sandwiches"
Your unthinking and immediate reflex is to say "that ain't a sandwich….."
Tell me I'm wrong!!!!!
For the same reasons people say "hot water heater". If the water is already hot, then why heat it?What I really want to know is why do people say Tuna Fish sandwich, nobody says Ham Meat Sandwich or Ham Pork Sandwich. By God, this is important!
I was imprisoned in California for mania years - we had no water, so I am unfamiliar with what water isFor the same reasons people say "hot water heater". If the water is already hot, then why heat it?
Actually, we call them water heaters, some are gas, others electric and some have no tank and work on demand. Have heard the ones with tanks called a hot water tank. Never heard any of them called a Hot Water Heater before.For the same reasons people say "hot water heater". If the water is already hot, then why heat it?
Not a sandwich that's for sureMaybe we are asking the wrong question.
What is a hotdog?
These are they same people who unthaw the ice.For the same reasons people say "hot water heater". If the water is already hot, then why heat it?
Okay I will give our neighbor the Hoagie.Those are fighten words. Since when did West Virginia lay claim to the term "hoagie"? That is strictly southeast Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, any place else its just a sub and I haven't had a good hoagie since I left Pa. 48 years ago. Next you'll be telling us pork roll and scrapple originated in West Virginia as well. , further, hotdogs are not a sandwich unless they fall on slices of bread.
Isn't that Stromboli?Okay I will give our neighbor the Hoagie.
What about sliced pepperoni rolled in bread doe and cooked. Pepperoni Rolls.
Lips and ***holes, right?Maybe we are asking the wrong question.
What is a hotdog?
I thought they were cow's udder and boiled chicken feet. Maybe the occasional horse kidney…Lips and ***holes, right?
All the above with some red dye.I thought they were cow's udder and boiled chicken feet. Maybe the occasional horse kidney…