a hot dog is

#notallhotdogs

In much the same way that a corndog is unquestionably a popsicle, anyone who's willing to breach all bounds of human decency in preparing a hot dog is a chef in my book.

https://buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-89-hot-dog/

Of course, this is one of the defining debates in Internet history—it’s been addressed by everyone from Ruth Bader Ginsberg to John Hodgman, with associated verdicts by myriad major publications and many winking, smarmy Twitter-trend pieces besides. It’s been the subject of frenetic and often tedious contention for over a decade now.

But, dear readers, I wanted—no, needed—to seek out wisdom from higher authorities, rather than simply glean gristle and leftover bits of pre-prepared content and stuff them into the sausage casing of this column.

So I emailed thirty professors of semiotics, linguistics, ontology, psycholinguistics, information science and other pertinent disciplines, and encouraged these academics to get in touch.

I had two chicago dogs for dinner at home last night. Great sandwiches.

Tea is soup

Soup is tea probably more accurate.

I'm just going to refer to anything edible as "food" from now on and not bother being more specific

hot dogs are a Christmas movie are not a sandwich

"Sometimes a hotdog is just a hotdog (by the way, this must be written as one word, as it is a compound noun; "hot dog" describes a dog… that is hot). "

people who think English is German:

Sarah Stroup, Philologist and Professor of Classics, University of Washington
Jesse Sheidlower, Lexicographer, Columbia University; Former Editor-at-Large, The Oxford English Dictionary
Frankie Huang, Consulting Semiotician
J.D. Connor, Associate Professor, Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Jim Lohmar, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages, College of Charleston

hot dog describes a sandwich
hotdog describes skiing

I'm on Team 'It's a Weird Sandwich, But Close Enough', in part because if it ain't a sandwich, then it's a freak of nature.

I think in degrees of sandwichness. A hot dog is more of a sandwich that than a chair is a sandwich.

But a BLT is more of a sandwich than a hot dog is.

Please see this story in which a man in New Zealand and a man in Spain Noth placed bread on the ground at the same time. For a brief time, the earth and everything on it was a sandwich.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a30633840/earth-sandwich/

Last night I was thinking that a definition of "sandwich" might be: some sort of protein wrapped in some sort of carbs, which would make you, dear reader, a sandwich—and I am a sandwich, as well.

This is funny, and this may be an idiotic question, but which part of the human body is a carb now?

mmmm parts of yr liver really and that's about it

You are meat in a skin casing. You are a sausage.

“You’d expect supermarkets around the world to have the exact same kind [of bread],” Naude told The World. “Apparently not.”

What?

this debate is a clear broth