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POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:39 am
by pinback
Let's settle this once and for all!

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:57 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
Thanks. Neither are sandwiches and it's time we understood what was really going on here.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:25 pm
by Flack
Hamburgers and hot dogs are not sandwiches. If they were, people would order a hot dog sandwich, or a hamburger sandwich, which they don't. It's like saying toast with butter is really a pizza. It's not. Any troll who insists hot dogs or hamburgers are sandwiches should be required to order them as sandwiches and see what happens. Better yet, they should be banned from eating them.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:32 pm
by The Happiness Engine
And yet I can order a "tuna melt" without saying sandwich just fine...

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:35 pm
by Flack
Tuna Melts are listed on menus under "Sandwiches." Hot dogs and hamburgers are not.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:02 pm
by AArdvark

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:30 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
We aren't going to be one of those sites that's all daisy about it. WE KNOW WHAT A SANDWICH IS.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:00 pm
by pinback
The trick is, you can never mic-drop this, because there is no definition of "sandwich" that doesn't definitely include hamburgers, and probably include hot dogs.

So I am in full agreement with the right-thinking, God-fearing Americans here who know that neither is a sandwich, but if you are ever challenged on it, there's nothing to point to other than "that's my feeling", while they're pointing at their dictionaries.

It's a hard life for us, fellow non-sandwichers.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:06 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
We do all the work around here though and that has to account for something.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:03 pm
by Flack
If hot dogs and burgers are sandwiches then bagels are cream cheese sandwiches and loaves of bread are bread sandwiches.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:46 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
We do so much.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:33 am
by pinback
Flack wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 6:03 pm If hot dogs and burgers are sandwiches then bagels are cream cheese sandwiches and loaves of bread are bread sandwiches.
And a pizza is an open-faced Italian sandwich!

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:54 am
by Flack
Last night at Sonic I ordered a Footlong Chili Cheese Sandwich. The lady said they didn't have a footlong sandwich, only the hot dog. I said yes, the sandwich. She then asked me if I was having a stroke.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:55 pm
by AArdvark
I think the language has changed since the inception of the two items in question. Hot dogs used to be called frankfurters back in the day and I believe 'hamburger sandwich' was the old timey moniker of the other one. They might not fall squarely in the sandwich category but it's close enough for government work.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:08 pm
by pinback
Find me a single restaurant menu that has burgers under the heading "sandwiches", instead of a separate "burgers" section or even under "burgers & sandwiches".

Find one.

One.

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Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:07 pm
by AArdvark
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Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:08 pm
by AArdvark
Mmmm, grilled barracuda!

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:23 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
We work so hard for the rest of you.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:04 am
by AArdvark
I believe I'll have the scrambled eggs and chicken livers with a glass of buttermilk, please.

Re: POLL: Burgers, Hot Dogs, and Sandwiches

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:59 am
by pinback
AArdvark wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:07 pm Image
I should have clarified that Old News entries were not acceptable.