a hot dog is

But a sandwich is technically a hot dog, so who even knows anymore.

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can some Britisher post here and create further ruckus?

are hot dogs an ingredient of beenie weenies?

my wife was served bunless hot dogs, not cut up, in Eastern Europe in the early 90s.

need a full report form pepsi marketing on this question

Britishers put rocket on their hot dogs.

Are mashed or whipped hot dogs a thing? Those would definitely not count as sandwiches. Except...maybe?

i hate all of you fyi

hot dog is totally a sandwich btw

maybe my south american brothers & sisters can speak up with me for the important and often disgusting use of hot dogs on the continent.

but here is evidence from bolivia in favor of "is a sandwich":

El perro caliente (del inglés hot dog) o panchito (vocablo compuesto de pan y chorizo) es un sándwich con una salchicha de Frankfurt o vienesa en un pan alargado que suele acompañarse con algún aderezo. Se ha convertido en el entremés infaltable en torno a la fogata de San Juan, festividad que se avecina.

this is a typical Chilean hot dog

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it is a sandwich

a hot dog is a river

i can tell you it's nigh impossible to get a decent hot dog in the UK. 999 times out of a thousand the onions are the best bit

I got a match day hot dog once and it didn't even have the onions:(

My favorite sandwich:

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hot dogs in France usually look like this

https://www.kelownanow.com/files/files/images/Paris%20hot%20dog.jpg

I've never had the nerve to order one and I hope I never do.

I wish I had a hot dog I could skate away on.

you understand

xxp in that situation i'd go for the Croque obv

ich bin ein Frankfurter

hot dogs are like tattoos

The French ones look like they got fused with welsh rarebit

it is a razor

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euler are you kidding those look amazing

i can tell you it's nigh impossible to get a decent hot dog in the UK. 999 times out of a thousand the onions are the best bit

idgi yall got hogs and factories over there rite

idgi either, we do decent sausages, but everything sold as a hot dog here is either tasteless floor scrapings inflated with water or gristly fake wurst

and don't get me wrong, i like cheap, fatty sausages, but British tradition is that hotdogs shd always be a crushing disappointment

onions are very tasty. would eat an onion tube with diced hot dogs on top.

idgi either, we do decent sausages, but everything sold as a hot dog here is either tasteless floor scrapings inflated with water

oh well actually

a hot dog doesn't have proper layers. you should be able to extract a core sample from any point on the horizontal plane of a sandwich and get a similar result.

a topological argument! very creative

Doesn't have proper layers. Pssh. What are 'dark pink membrane' and 'light pink gelatinous slurry' if not layers?

grain man over here xxp

turn the bun on its side, you got uniform layers bread > dog > bread from top to bottom, so ergo it's a sandwich?

Is the bun hinge a quibbling point? Because you can break that shit and then it's just a hingeless bun like magic.

The core sample argument doesn't work because I could extract a uniform core sample from a cupcake that had been squashed between a rice cake and a slice of watermelon but I don't think very many people would call that a sandwich.

i believe our friend slugbuggy was proposing it as a test the hot dog fails, not one makes anything passing it a sandwich

fun will m fact: i used to eat hot dogs sideways so they would be more "sandwich-like" with bread on top and bottom
fun hot dog fact: is a sandwich

there's the concept of toppings, which suggests the open portion of the hot dog is the nominal up side, the toppings go on top. you can turn that sideways if you want to, i guess.

hamburger toppings go in the middle! wait do we even call those toppings? i'm confused. do we even call them toppings on hot dogs?!

yeah, they're toppings:

http://www.viennabeef.com/filebin/images/historyOfChicagoDog.jpg

they go on top of the meat

but are they called hamburger toppings?

yes

Are they called hamburger toppings if they're on a hot dog?

see THIS is why ppl leave ilx

youre all morons

NOT A SANDWICH

nobody leaves ilx

meat on a bun is never not a sandwich

inclined to agree with VG
i.e. i wd not call a hot dog a sandwich & can't think of any ordinary language occasion in which i or anyone else wd do so

i say this as a latter-day wittgensteinian
& as a woman (only anecdotal data so far but there seems to be gender split on this question)

*fist bump*