Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?

[W3H5]

I don't know if the American Council Of The Hot Dog is different from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, but I already posted this in December that they said no:

Looks like we’ll have to pit them against each other if the lasted verdict is different from the previous.

 

[Dotini]

The question is slightly unfair.

The hotdog may be technically a sandwich, but you would never offer a friend or family member a sandwich then snub them with a hotdog.

 

[kikie]

Don't analyze it, eat it!

 

[Dotini]

Don't analyze it, eat it!

Exactly. You do not want to know what is in a hotdog. Its origins are said to be in the sweepings off the butcher shop floor after the days work was done. Tradition has it this includes sawdust, snot, human hair and all manner of offal fallen to the floor during the day.

 

[kikie]

Exactly. You do not want to know what is in a hotdog. Its origins are said to be in the sweepings off the butcher shop floor after the days work was done. Tradition has it this includes sawdust, snot, human hair and all manner of offal fallen to the floor during the day.

Bon appétit.

 

[CTznOfTime]

After years of intense internal debate with my own self, I have now finally made my decision that a Hot Dog is just that....

.... If we start labelling a hot dog as a sandwich, then what is stopping us from putting the taco under the sandwich category, when we all know that putting a piece of meat in between some "bread" is not always called a sandwich...

A hot dog and a taco cannot be sandwiched, or can they...

 

[W3H5]

So was/is a Twinkie a cream sandwich?

 

[Joey D]

I don't know if the American Council Of The Hot Dog is different from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, but I already posted this in December that they said no:

Wait there are two tubular meat councils in the US? God bless America.

 

[W3H5]

tubular

I think cylindrical is a better descriptive. Tubular might suggest it’s hollow.

 

[polysmut]

I think cylindrical is a better descriptive. Tubular might suggest it’s hollow.

If you hollow out a sausage and use it to drink milkshake you can eat the straw afterwards.

 

[Joey D]

If you hollow out a sausage and use it to drink milkshake you can eat the straw afterwards.

I use these, called Benny's Meat Straws, when I make Bloody Marys. They are life-changing on a Sunday morning when you have a pile of eggs, some toast, an avocado, and a whole bottle of Cholula hot sauce.

 

[polysmut]

Bloody Marys... ...on a Sunday morning

That's where you won me over.

 

[PJTierney]

Man this is closer than that thing a country doomed itself to in 2016...

 

[MisterWaffles]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

But no, I think the definition of a sandwich is something between two slices of bread. A hot dog is eaten within a roll so therefore it doesn't qualify. Like how wraps aren't called sandwiches but are still things served within an amount of bread.

 

[Famine]

That's where you won me over.

Just so you know, this is the 13 millionth post on the site, and I hope you're happy.

 

[kolio]

The question is slightly unfair.

The hotdog may be technically a sandwich, but you would never offer a friend or family member a sandwich then snub them with a hotdog.

Snubbed? It's an upgrade. 👍

 

[polysmut]

Just so you know, this is the 13 millionth post on the site, and I hope you're happy.

Can't tell if sarcastic but thanks.

 

[CTznOfTime]

Middle of the road point of view ...
From a lawyer's perspective:


A sandwich is not necessarily a hot dog,

But a hot dog can be a sandwich....

 

[Hayden]

They have replied!

Link:
http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-sandwich

A resounding statement of no, not just from the Hot Dog council, but a laundry list of celebrities. From Matt Damon to the New York Mets (apparently )

Limiting the hot dog’s significance by saying it’s ‘just a sandwich’ is like calling the Dalai Lama ‘just a guy’. Perhaps at one time its importance could be limited by forcing it into a larger sandwich category (no disrespect to Reubens and others), but that time has passed. We therefore choose to take a cue from a great performer and declare our namesake be a “hot dog formerly known as a sandwich.

 

[Famine]

Can't tell if sarcastic but thanks.

The first bit no, the second bit yes.

Our 13 millionth post is about day drinking Bloody Marys in a thread about whether hot dogs are a sandwich or not. I hope you're all VERY PROUD OF YOURSELVES.

 

[PJTierney]

 

[W3H5]

Matt Damon

Can’t argue with Matt Damon.

A sandwich it is not.

Our 13 millionth post is about day drinking Bloody Marys in a thread about whether hot dogs are a sandwich or not.

What was you expecting? Something insightful or profound?

 

[Hayden]

In a thread which was dead until I bumped it, to ask a National Hot Dog Council, to answer a question they’d already answered 6 years prior.

I couldn’t be more proud.

 

[polysmut]

In a thread which was dead until I bumped it, to ask a National Hot Dog Council, to answer a question they’d already answered 6 years prior.

Their response, which you quoted above.

Limiting the hot dog’s significance by saying it’s ‘just a sandwich’ is like calling the Dalai Lama ‘just a guy’.

If foods can be significant, sandwiches are very significant.
They've added the word "just", suggesting they see sandwiches as something to deride. Jumping to the defence of their raison d'etre in the face of, not a threat, but a request for opinion. I don't trust them.

The Dalai Lama is just a guy.

Don't christians (so about 2/3 of Americans?) believe that all men are created equal or something like that? The hot dog council have effectively just told all those people that a hot dog is a sandwich.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm not sure that not just a sandwich means not a sandwich. This is like arguing that the US President isn't a man.

They do: https://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-sandwich

10. Babe Ruth wasn’t sent to the hospital and rumored to be dead because he ate too many sandwiches,

How about Elvis?

 

[kikie]

We got the answer. A hot dog is a sandwich hot dog. Now go and enjoy your hot dog.

 

[polysmut]

We got the answer.

That depends if we accept the (I suspect self-appointed?) "authority" of one specific group.

 

[W3H5]

Sausage rolls are better than hotdogs anyway.

 

[kikie]

That depends if we accept the (I suspect self-appointed?) "authority" of one specific group.

Of course, we have to accept it. Who are we to contradict the knowledge and findings of The Hot Dog & Sausage Council.

 

[daan]

I don't know if the American Council Of The Hot Dog is different from the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, but I already posted this in December that they said no:

Are they like the People's front of Judea vs the Judean People's front?

The first bit no, the second bit yes.

Our 13 millionth post is about day drinking Bloody Marys in a thread about whether hot dogs are a sandwich or not. I hope you're all VERY PROUD OF YOURSELVES.

Well, at least it wasn't about a 2.2 Camry.