..to think a hot dog is a sandwich?

[AfunaMbatata]

DH disagrees and just gave me this look when I asked him why it is not a sandwich.

So, ...agree/disagree?

[StripySocksAndDocs]

If i am GreenTulips you should be in bed and asleep. 😒

[SunnySkiesSleepsintheMorning]

No a hot dog is not a sandwich but a burger is a bit closer to being a sandwich than a hot dog. I’m hungry now, so thanks!

[Ihavepatrick]

It's sort of a sandwich, there's the filling and bread either side!

[StarWarsFanatic]

YANBU. Hot dogs are sandwiches in the same way that all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs.

[abouttimeforanotherone]

A sandwich is something edible between two slices of bread.

[StarWarsFanatic]

Pricilla Of course you wouldn't put it between two slices, you would wrap one slice around it

[SugarRush123]

Would you put a hotdog in between two slices of bread from a regular loaf?

My son does. He cuts 2-3 cold frankfurters into halves and puts them between two slices of bread. He calls it a Raft Sandwich

But no, a hot dog in a bun is definitely NOT a sandwich.

[HicDraconis]

From the all knowing Wikipedia :

A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein two or more pieces of bread serve as a container or wrapper for another food type.[1][2][3] The sandwich began as a portable finger food in the Western world, though over time it has become prevalent worldwide

As a hot dog usually involves a bread roll I would say it fails this definition of sandwich. Even the sausages sizzles here (which are a bbq sausage placed diagonally along one slice of bread, with onions & sauces as preferred) aren’t a sandwich because although they use bread, it’s only one slice.

If the filling isn’t sandwiched between at least two separate layers of bread then it’s not a sandwich. It’s a roll or a wrap or a sizzle or a bun but it’s not a sandwich.

[Pomegranatemolasses]

Why not file everything under the ‘hand held snack’ category?

[OliviaStabler]

Boak at the thought of butter in a sausage sandwich

Of course you need butter in a sausage sandwich

[CommanderDaisy]

It's not a sandwich, it's a hot dog. Your DH is right.

[SugarPlumFerry]

Bread
Hotdog
Bread

Sandwich.

[BarbaraofSevillle]

It's a sandwich. Any filling between any type of leavened bread (to distinguish from wraps etc) is a sandwich. The bread can be sliced or a bun/roll/breadcake/teacake/barm/cob/etc etc.

If you get a bacon, sausage, spam, fried egg etc sandwich in a greasy spoon it doesn't come in sliced bread does it? It's still a sandwich.

If you claimed that sausage in a breadcake was actually a sausage roll, well that's a different thing entirely.

This thread reminds me of one of the most surreal experiences of my life where I tried to buy a ham sandwich in Greggs somewhere in the West Midlands. To me, a sandwich came in a breadcake (see above for alternative nomenclature). That was the way it was in Leeds Greggs. Hell I had worked there for two years while in the sixth form so made thousands of the bastards.

I could see the breadcakes behind the counter and asked for a ham sandwich. The assistant pointed me towards the (vastly inferior in my opinion) sliced bread sandwiches in the fridge behind me. I said, no, ham in a breadcake please. Cue several minutes of confused misunderstanding before I gave up and got a nasty chilled sliced bread one.

[BeachysFlipFlops]

Breadcake? From Greggs? what is breadcake?

[Ollivander84]

I think a breadcake is an barm/bread roll/whatever you want to call it

[Beachcomber]

Definitely not a sandwich.

If someone said to you "would you like a sausage sandwich?" you wouldn't expect them to then put a hotdog in front of you.

And bacon rolls are not sandwiches either. They are rolls.

[SugarPlumFerry]

I'd be over the moon for someone to put any arrangement of sausage and bread in front of me to be honest.

[Bluntness100]

I think we see a sandwich as filling in between bits of flat bread.

A roll, a bap, a wrap, pita bread etc we tend not to call sandwiches.

However there is no law about it.,,

[Bluntness100]

If you get a bacon, sausage, spam, fried egg etc sandwich in a greasy spoon it doesn't come in sliced bread does it

Well yes, yes it does. Which greasy spoons are you going to? If you ask for a bacon roll, you get bacon in a roll, if you ask for a bacon sandwich it comes in between two bits of bread. I suspect you ask for a bacon sandwich, they don’t do them so silently give you a bacon roll instead. 🤣

[BarbaraofSevillle]

There are obviously regional differences at play here.

I have never asked for a bacon roll and if I asked for a sausage roll, I would expect it to be sausage baked into pastry.

What do those who call a sandwich a roll say to get a sausage sandwich not a sausage roll of the pastry variety?

[MrKaplan]

Sandwich alignment chart
mobile.twitter.com/matttomic/status/859117370455060481/photo/1

[MaroonPencil]

Does anyone remember "sausage in a roll in a box" you used to get at the cinema?

[Balaboosteh]

Hot dog, burger, sandwich, Cornish pasty, empanada... all proteins wrapped in carbs. All part of the same food family in my book. And before you ask, food family is a thing, because I say so!

[CountessofGrantham]

So if you slice a hot dog length ways and put it in the bun the way you do with a sausage sarnie, does a hot dog become a sausage sarnie too?

[e1y1]

No YABU, never been a hotdog sandwich.