..to think a hot dog is a sandwich?

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

So, ...agree/disagree?

Breadcake - it's a large flat bread roll. Some breadcakes are HUGE. And a bun is not the sort of sweet bread you might expect (iced finger roll, chelsea bun etc) it's an individual sized sponge cake, what down south might be called a fairy cake.

A sandwich happens between two slices of bread. Not a sandwich

A sandwich happens between two slices of bread. Not a sandwich Yeah. Things can be sandwiched together without making a sandwich.

Of course it's not a bloody sandwich!!

I suppose anything stuffed between two bits of bread constitutes a sarnie.

But what the hell is an ' open sandwich?!!' 🤣

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

I've rolled a piece of bread around a hotdog when I've realised the hotdog buns were mouldy a bit too late.

DH eats up remaining hotdogs from the fridge by slicing them in half lengthways and placing them on bread, in an open sandwich formation. Bloody foreigners.

Should have read the post above mine before posting, I see.

Anythintg put in bread is a sandwich. A burger, a hotdog, a grilled cheese. If it has bread above it and below it, its a sandwich.

I really want a sandwich!

What about an Oreo. That's a kind of biscuit sandwich then?

I really want a sandwich!

There's one left, you can have a hotdog instead

Bread? Check.
Meat? Check.

Sounds like a sandwich to me.

No it's got to be cheese and loads of pickle.

Well an oreo is not bread, but sure, you could call that a kind of sandwich biscuit.

It is very similar to a sandwich but it's not a sandwich. We wouldn't call a bread roll/bap a sandwich either - we'd say a cheese roll or a bacon roll or a ham bap. A sandwich, in the absence of additional descriptors, is a filling between two slices of bread. Therefore a sausage sandwich is sausages (usually sliced in half vertically so its flatter) between two slices of bread. A sausage roll, confusingly, is a specific pastry product. A hotdog is a frankfurterptype sausage in a long roll.

I know Americans use 'sandwich' more broadly to refer to burgers etc but if I asked my family if they wanted a chicken sandwich they really wouldn't expect a chicken burger in a bun; they'd expect cold chicken between two slices of bread.

What about a panini?

a panini is literally Italian for sandwich.

But I would class it as a toasty - which I wouldn't class as a sandwich. Maybe a subset of sandwich.

A toasty is a toasted sandwich. It can't not be a sandwich.

But it's toasted... toast is toast - it's beyond bread...

Definitely a subset of sandwich, because a panino in UK usage is a small roll filled and toasted, not two slices of bread. A toastie is also a subset of sandwich, but neither are default sandwiches.

Toast is toasted bread. How can bread be beyond bread?

Ohhhh all the sandwich loveliness on this thread. I WANT A 🥪

Yes, a toastie is a toasted sandwich. But it's the descriptor that makes the difference, just like in an open sandwich. If someone asks for a cheese sandwich, unless they specify toasted or open or whatever, they'll get cheese between two slices of untoasted bread. They'd have to specify to get it toasted.

Because you have to apply heat to it - it's bread with an extra process.