a hot dog is

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/38/7a/79/387a794cb7780e38c889f501504622a3.jpg

these fuckin guys

I voted non-sandwich despite having to acknowledge that the pro-sandwich people have logic on their side, guess it's kind of a heart/mind dichotomy.

is-sandwich leaners are looking at this as question of scientific taxonomy, as if these were natural kinds; is-not-sandwich leaners see these as distinct cultural kinds, looking at this question more ethnographically & nominalistically

If you don't even need two pieces of bread, who says you need bread at all?

And now, at long last, we arrive at the sorites paradox (though in truth we were there all along).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

Most reasonable people will agree that one grain of sand is definitely not a heap of sand. Also, most reasonable people will agree that a million grains of sand definitely constitutes a heap of sand.

So at what point does it become a heap of sand? Two grains? Three? A hundred grains? If so, then why 100 grains and not 99 grains?

Similarly, if we say a sandwich requires two pieces of bread, why two and not one? Or three?

drash otm on the competing frames of reference.

I'm still on team "degrees of sandwich"

I take the heap of sand with a pinch of salt.

Oh, and of course

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/it-is-my-hope-that-i-will-be-remembered-as-a-great-10896

"Perhaps it will be treaties that will come to be known for eternity as Sandwiches. Great leaders of countries will say, "Let us enact a Sandwich, that our two nations shall cease to be enemies. By the terms of this most sacred and honorable Sandwich, let us have peace in our great lands." That would be a most fitting tribute to me, considering my tireless contributions to the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748."

hey guys, i'm having a barbeque lunch meal on Tuesday. hamburger sandwiches and hot dog sandwiches will be served by humans, but please bring a side food dish. you'll probably want to wear short pants because it's supposed to be a high-temperature day.

-unabomber

enjoying Ye Mad Puffin posting itt because his name has been making me think of

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/C5E602/two-tins-of-ye-olde-oak-american-style-hot-dogs-sausages-in-brine-C5E602.jpg

Like climate change denial

― j.enjoyhotdogs (wins), Monday, August 3, 2015 11:53 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol :(

can't believe there are believe on this thread who haven't had a torta. i had two this weekend (which is atypical but welcome. although i have to be careful with some of the giant taqueria versions, because they are huge & bready and i know i'm incapable of saving half for later).

http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/huYxR3suLcBDXRt6DWERyQ/o.jpg

Basically what I'm getting there is that they're a portal into the Sandwich Dimension.

so important to brine the hot dogs

what we talk about when we talk about sandwiches

Similarly, if we say a sandwich requires two pieces of bread, why two and not one? Or three?

― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, August 3, 2015 1:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

3 slices of bread in a club sandwich. one piece of toast between two pieces of untoasted bread is a toast sandwich. and if dagwood bumstead is to be believed, there may very well be no upper limit to the number of pieces of bread allowed to still call it a sandwich (aside from real-world physics and human biology, something DB gets to ignore).

is-sandwich leaners are looking at this as question of scientific taxonomy, as if these were natural kinds; is-not-sandwich leaners see these as distinct cultural kinds, looking at this question more ethnographically & nominalistically

― drash, Monday, August 3, 2015 1:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo this is a less a case of scientific/taxonomical vs cultural/ethnographical and more a case of sandwich as transgressive food delivery mechanism vs. tightly-curated finite list of predetermined, vetted creations. the "it's not a sandwich" crowd are like the people who see patrissy (a mix of patron and hennessy) as a "mixed drink" and not a "cocktail." frankly I'd include "wraps" as sandwiches if it didn't seem like everyone pita-industrial complex wasn't on a PR smear mission to ensure everyone believes it is superior to (and therefore not) a sandwich.

btw patrissy is real, someone told me about it on saturday. nas's brother drinks it.

of course he does

Will M. makes good points. Since you mentioned drinks, this can be usefully compared with martini purism. Lots of things can be put in a martini glass and given a name that ends with "ini."

There will always be people who say that a martini can only be gin, vermouth, and an optional olive. Vodka makes it a non-martini automatically (to those holding this purist view), and if you're using a pearl onion you must call it a Gibson BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS CALLED. A vodka-based chocolate-orange-tini can never be a martini (to those holding this purist view).

I personally don't care enough to get up in arms about it but I am amused that there are those for whom "vodka martini" constitute fightin' words.

imo this is a less a case of scientific/taxonomical vs cultural/ethnographical and more a case of sandwich as transgressive food delivery mechanism vs. tightly-curated finite list of predetermined, vetted creations

dying

one piece of toast between two pieces of untoasted bread is a toast sandwich.

somehow I missed this when I read Will's post before and it's genius

That's some bread connoisseur work, at that point you're not even in it for the carb kick, it's the contrast of the textures.

"First you butter the bread, then you butter the toast, then you butter the other bread"
"But-"
"Different butters!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

this wikipedia article is 100% gems, i almost want to poll that article's best parts

white bread (slightly heated)
salt & pepper
olive oil
white bread (toasted)
olive oil
salt & pepper
white bread (slightly heated)

― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Thursday, 2 July 2015 02:04 (1 month ago)

^this is still one of my most satisfied 'wiching experiences (although properly speaking, the items being 'sandwiched' were the oil and the seasonings rather than the toast)

*most satisfying

"This is the culinary equivalent of a Rothko painting. Or it's like a sandwich by Marcel Duchamp! It questions the essence of sandwich and language both!"[11]

Okay, I was not expecting that.

patrissy :-(

two perfectly drinkable drinks in combat, why

is an empanada or calzone or pasty a sandwich?

pastry isn't bread, nice try tho

1) no pastry in the first two at least
2) what madness, "pastry is not bread", good grief

is a gordita or an arepa or a pupusa a sandwich?

is ravioli a sandwich

you're a sandwich

not the 1st time I've been subposted

stuffed pastries will maybe be sandwiches one day, but today is not that day. sorry empanadas, calzones, pasties, gorditas, arepas, and pupusas (i am assuming these are all stuffed breads/pastries -- not easy to find all of these in my city). ravioli is one step further removed.

pastry can be the bread of a sandwich though, ham and cheese on a croissant is A) delicious B) pastry-based C) sandwich.

as the self-appointed ILX Dean of Sandwiches I thank you all for your sandwich questions. I shall eat one sandwich deemed a "hot dog" in each of your honours.

war criminal

you can't self-appoint yourself to a position of power without breaking a few eggs

and before you ask, an omelet is not a sandwich

Gonna have some taco sandwiches for dinner tonight, can't wait.

Chicken pot pie - sandwich? It is stuff surrounded by a breadlike product.

For that matter, so is an apple pie.

pies are cousins of sandwiches. and tacos where is that even coming from

your logic traps do not make hot dogs any less a-sandwich

you're a cousin of a sandwich

i do have a cousin named reuben so joke's on you

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/6f/2e/69/6f2e6903af68ea2cec74507b851fced3.jpg

it's a clever pun you dumb idiots!

http://www.tmfile.com/mark/?q=783764574

because of the sandwiches which are there

i would like to draw everyone's attention to this sandwich called a "mother-in-law"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother-in-law_(tamale)

i found this while researching sandwiches. after all a leader should be knowledgeable of that in his purview

your mother-in-law's a sandwich