We Disagree @lemmy.world Emerald @lemmy.world 8mo ago

A hot dog is a sandwich

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https://cuberule.com/ was made to answer such queries
- So a pie is a quiche but if you slice off a piece, that piece is toast?
- You see what you did. Now a hotdog is a taco.
- Crearly that is just sarcasm. The food is defined of how you eat it, not how it is formed.
Is a hamburger a sandwich? Or is it a hamburger? A hotdog is a hotdog. Hotdogs on 2 slices of bread, thats a hotdog sandwich. Hotdog in a bun is not a sandwich.
- A hamburger is a specific sandwich, just like a hot dog.
  
  By that logic, everything on the taco bell menu is a taco. Just specific types of tacos.
- so, by your definition, if you cut the bun into two pieces of bread the hotdog becomes a sandwich?
  
  But its still on a hotdog bun. If it were on slices of bread it would then be a sandwich. The delivery system is important to this.
Food Theory did a pretty extensive review of what makes a sandwich, and their conclusion, based on a court case, is that a hotdog doesn't fit the legal definition of a sandwich. Their results are at 15:05 in the linked video.
- the legal definition of a sandwich
  
  enforced by
- Thank you yes. A hot dog is not a sandwich and never will be.
- A long video of people being wrong is no argument.
  
  Quoting law is also nonsensical. Indiana almost passed legislation defining π to be equal to 3.
  
  Quoting Indiana law is nonsensical and oxymoronic, which you would know if you'd ever been.
A kind of taco is not a sandwhich. What makes a sandwhich is the way of how to eat it.

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