Is a hot dog a sandwich? Im in an deep discussion with my father in law debating this. To answer the question we first had to answer the question what consitutes a sanwich? What makes a sandwich a sandwich. Two pieces of bread? Can you have a sandwich with only one piece folded in half? Meat...cheese...condiments....one can put so much more on a sandwich but these seem to be the bare minimum. ( though you could just have meat or cheese and its a sandwich( ham/turkey\ beef etc. Grilled cheese sandwich) So is a hotdog, which is essentialy meat between bread a sandwich? Usually with condiments or sonetimes cheese. Vote in the poll. Then explain your reasoning below. Happy 4th everybody!
"A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced meat or cheese, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein two or more pieces of bread serve as a container or wrapper for another food type."
Press Releases From the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council National Hot Dog and Sausage Council Announces Official Policy On ‘Hot Dog as Sandwich’ Controversy Washington, D.C., November 6, 2015—Just as politics and religion can both unite and polarize, the question of whether a hot dog is a sandwich has stirred its followers’ fury, and unless settled soon, may go down has one of American history’s most polarizing disagreements. The deep philosophical divide has played out this week following National Sandwich Day on the NBC Today Show, ESPN’s Sportscenter, in NFL locker rooms and across the internet. Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has also weighed in. As the official voice of hot dogs and sausages, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC) is primed to settle this debate once and for all, and our verdict is…a hot dog is an exclamation of joy, a food, a verb describing one ‘showing off’ and even an emoji. It is truly a category unto its own. “Limiting the hot dog’s significance by saying it’s ‘just a sandwich’ category 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, said NHDSC President and ‘Queen of Wien’ Janet Riley. “We therefore choose to take a cue from a great performer and declare our namesake be a “hot dog formerly known as a sandwich.” http://www.hot-dog.org/press/nation...-official-policy-hot-dog-sandwich-controversy
A Dozen Reasons Why the Terms Hot Dog and Sandwich Are Not Interchangeable 1. If you were watching a great athlete showing off during a game, you don’t call him a sandwich. 2. Does ESPN broadcast sandwich eating contests? 3. Imagine being at the ballpark with the organ playing, the crowd cheering and a vendor walking through the stands saying “Sandwich, get your sandwich here!” 4. Dirty Harry would not have sounded nearly as ominous if he said, “Never ever put mayo on a sandwich.” But when he said, “Never ever put ketchup on a hot dog,” people sat up and listened. 5. Marlene Dietrich didn’t say that champagne and sandwiches were her favorite foods; it was champagne and hot dogs she loved. 6. You wouldn’t get arrested for putting ketchup on a sandwich in Chicago. 7. There are never any myths or mystique about what’s in a sandwich. 8. No one ever sang about wishing they were a sandwich. 9. You don’t go to the ballpark and see racing sandwiches. 10. Babe Ruth wasn’t sent to the hospital and rumored to be dead because he ate too many sandwiches, 11. There was never an organized campaign for a sandwich emoji. 12. If you won the lottery, would you say “Sand wich!” No, you’d say, “hot dog!” Get it as a brochure. Download the Hot Dog Facts, Figures and Folklore brochure http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-sandwich
Joey Chestnut eats 72 hot dogs, wins 10th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title 'The Jaw' dominates in Coney Island, downing 72 hot dogs to set a new world record Joey Chestnut wanted 80 hot dogs, but 72 was more than enough to win his 10th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title. The man know as "Jaws" scarfed two more hot dogs than the 70 he ate last year to beat his own world record. ... Chestnut said at Monday's pre-contest weigh-in that he models his training after marathoners, slowly building up to eating more and more franks as the contest approaches. And with 10 titles, he's now entering some very elite territory among sports legends. http://www.cbssports.com/general/ne...-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-title/
Hot dogs are fucking gross. I ate too many cheap hot dogs in college. The only ones i'll eat now are hebrew national 100% beef. And that is still iffy.
"6. You wouldn’t get arrested for putting ketchup on a sandwich in Chicago." You should be arrested anywhere you are for putting ketchup on a SANDWICH. That's just gross.
Oh yeah. Big time. Wifey went to college in Chicago, her dad also grew up there (until about age 10) before moving to the California. They're super-serious about no ketchup on their hot dogs.
I don't eat steak with ketchup or A1. Not my thing. I do like ketchup on hash browns but not smothered. I'm not a fan of anyone telling me how I can eat something. I like Ribeyes almost charcoal like but a NY steak medium or so. It isn't math in that there's usually only one right answer.
On a recent trip through the southwest, I had a hot dog and all the fixings wrapped in hot Navajo fry bread. I'm still wondering if it was technically a "hotdog".......whatever, it was fabulous. And FWIW, ketchup is an abomination and should be outlawed........
