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Alright QQ, What Makes a Sandwich?

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A discussion with my family brought this question up. What, to you, makes a sandwich? Is a hotdog a sandwich? Is a hamburger a sandwich? Is a burrito a sandwich?

What do you think?
 
A sandwich is anything that has a filling in between two (or more) slices of a loaf of bread.
 
i don't veiw a hot dog as a sandwich on the grounds that most things added to hotdogs are piled on the bun and sasuage rather than contained by said bun. a Burrito isn't a sandwich either on the grounds it uses a tortilla rather than a bread product.
 
A burger is technically a sandwich, but anyone who refers to it as such or thinks burger when they hear the word sandwich is objectively failing life.

Tortilla does not make a sandwich, but pita can. Open faced sandwiches are sandwiches with the exception of bagles. One bagles half can never make a sandwich no matter what is put on it, but you can make strange sandwiches if you use both halves.

And hotdogs are absolutely not.
 
HypoSoc said:
A burger is technically a sandwich, but anyone who refers to it as such or thinks burger when they hear the word sandwich is objectively failing life.
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I think a burger is disqualified because it's a hot food, whereas sandwiches are had cold.
 
Grilled Cheese isn't cold either.
 
Jaertin said:
We usually just call this type of thing toast. I generally think of sandwiches as something you prepare to eat later on a trip or outdoors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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when i say toasted sandwich i mean assembling the sandwich then using something like a convention oven to heat the food and toast the bread before consumption.
 
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Sandwich?
 
As Biigoh said. Although Subway claims to sell sandwiches as well. Their bread parts are still connected, though, so I don't really count them.

Otherwise, a Döner would be a sandwich, which is just silly.
A sandwich is the food invented by the Earl of Sandwich.
 
Walkir said:
As Biigoh said. Although Subway claims to sell sandwiches as well. Their bread parts are still connected, though, so I don't really count them.
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Fast food sacrifices. When I was a kid, Subway actually did a V cut into the top of the loaf, lifted the top wedge out and put in the fixings before replacing it. They went to the side split because it was much harder to fuck up and you could cram more shit into the sandwich, allowing them to upsell you on double meat/double cheese or their new bullshit, 'deluxe' sandwiches with 50% more meat.
 
Dakkaface said:
They went to the side split because it was much harder to fuck up and you could cram more shit into the sandwich, allowing them to upsell you on double meat/double cheese or their new bullshit, 'deluxe' sandwiches with 50% more meat.
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It also allows them to cram all the no-extra-charge veggies I always get in my sandwich without it vomiting pickles all over the inside of the bag, so I can't really fault them for the shift.
 
Two slices of bread. Anything you want to cram between those two pieces of bread is up to you.

While I'm at it whoever came up with the concept of an open sandwich needs to be dragged into the street and shot. The beauty of a sandwich is the ease of eating it without getting your fingers covered in its delicious filling thanks to the natural handle the bread forms. Doing away with the top piece of bread ruins that completely.
 
A sandwich is food I'll definitely eat wrapped between pieces of food I'll probably eat at least half of.
I lose my patience with bread that isn't like...pizza crust, a fluffy croissant, a hamburger bun, or french bread after a certain amount.
 
"Sandwich" is, fundamentally, a word with an ostensive definition rather than an intensional definition. As such it necessarily lacks precise boundaries; there will exist objects to which the word is neither conclusively applicable nor conclusively inapplicable.

Examples of sandwiches:
  • PB&J on white bread
  • ham on rye
  • an Elvis
  • a Reuben
  • Monte Cristo
  • Beef on weck
  • Vada pav
  • Bánh mì thịt nguội
  • bagel sandwiches
  • Egg McMuffins
  • subs
  • Dagwood sandwiches (or lesser multi-layer sandwiches)
  • the planet Earth (q.v.)

Examples of non-sandwiches:
  • burritos, shawarma/döner kebab/gyros, pigs-in-a-blanket, peanut butter and jelly "sushi", beef Wellington, or any other meat-inside-rolled-bread construction
  • pizza, smørrebrød, Welsh rarebit, or other "open-faced sandwiches"
    • (see also: glass snakes, lame ducks, and wallflowers)
  • tacos
  • hot dogs
  • apple pie
  • egg rolls
  • actual sushi
  • quesadillas
  • eggs-in-the-basket
  • beer
  • salad
  • murder1​
  • the number sixty-nine thousand, one hundred and five (along with all other rational numbers and almost all irrational numbers)

Examples for which no consensus concerning sandwichhood exists2​:
  • hamburgers
  • Sloppy Joes
  • Oreos
  • ice cream sandwiches
  • folded flatbread sandwiches
  • the KFC Double Down
  • inverted-pizza pizza (pizza with another pizza flipped and put on top)
  • your mom3​

1​Note that a murder weapon may be a sandwich, but a murder itself cannot.
2​Disclaimer: determination of consensus may not include opinions of people not called Ampersandwich.4​
3​Girth prevented contact of other participants from achieving any sort of containment or even parallel alignment during double penetration test, which at any rate had to be aborted due to failure of structural elements of the harness and support system.
4​It totally does for subs though. I specifically checked. Sorry, Walkir.
 
Speckled Burd said:
Two slices of bread. Anything you want to cram between those two pieces of bread is up to you.
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Back when I was growing up (so this would be about 20 years ago) Gardenia had this ad concept in Malaysia: Sandwic Kosong (literally Empty Sandwich). Take two slices of white bread, put them together and eat. Their jingle:

"Oh Gardenia~ So good you can eat it on its own~!"

Anyway my personal favorite is ham and grilled cheese in an over toaster.
 
As a child, I enjoyed ice cream sandwiches in parks with people selling these from push or bicycle carts.

2 slices of bread, white or flavored.
One of those blocks of ice cream in cardboard wrappers, slice off a generous slab of ice cream.
Insert ice cream between bread.
Eat in the hot sun.
 
Speaking of grillled cheese, i like to do an open topped grilled cheese. Bread, slice of cheese, and then butter on top of the cheese. The butter basically sorta fries the cheese and keeps ot from getting burnt and dried out.

ironically at one time it was easier for me to get bakkwa i stead of ham so i used that for sandwiches. Bakkwa is awesome - it's sweetish slabs of bbq pork, chinese style.

and sandwiches are incomplete without chips...
 
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