What's a Sandwich?

[lpetrich]

Secular Talk on Twitter: "Is a hotdog technically a sandwich?" / Twitter
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Michael Grunder on Twitter: "@KyleKulinski Here's a technical diagram https://t.co/ldginwvFim" / Twitter

The Sandwich Alignment Chart: modeled after the Dungeons and Dragons one:

• Lawful - Neutral - Chaotic
• Good - Neutral - Evil

What's in the picture that that tweet links to:

Structure:

• Purist: A sandwich must have a classic sandwich shape: two pieces of bread/baked product, with toppings in between
• Neutral: The container must be on either side of the toppings, but not necessarily two separate pieces
• Rebel: Can contain any food enveloped in any way by a containing food

Ingredients:

• Purist: Must have classic sandwich toppings: meat, cheese, lettuce, condiments, etc.
• Neutral: Can contain a broader scope of savoury ingredients
• Rebel: Can contain literally any food products sandwiched together

The sandwiches:

• S P, I P: BLT
• S P: I N: Chip Butty
• S P: I R: Ice Cream between Waffles
• S N, I P: Sub
• S N, I N: Hot Dog
• S N, I R: Ice Cream Taco
• S R, I P: Chicken Wrap
• S R, I N: Burrito
• S R, I R: Pop-Tart

The diagonal:

• S & I P: Hardline Traditionalist
• S & I N: True Neutral
• S & I R: Radical Sandwich Anarchy

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

A pop tart is not a sandwich. It is a pastry. Pastries are not sandwiches. A pie therefore, is not a sandwich. Even if it is a filling between between wheat based materials.

 

[bilby]

Since 1894, a sandwich has been a hawaii.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'd say a pop tart isn't a sandwich as it doesn't involve a baked bread in any shape or form. It'd be more accurate to call a jelly donut a sandwich.

A hot dog is just a poor man's sausage hoagie, which is also a sandwich.

Since 1894, a sandwich has been a hawaii.

Sandwich has been in Cape Cod for centuries.

 

[TV and credit cards]

I’ve used hamburger buns to make sandwiches so I don’t see why hotdog buns should be excluded. Though I think it would be good form to split the hotdog bun in two, not roll up your deli meat into a hotdog shape. Anyone over the age of twelve would be asked to leave for doing so.

Anything wrapped in flat bread is a wrap.

 

[steve_bank]

Anything edible 'sandwiched' between two pieces of bread.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Then what was Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and John F. Kennedy?

 

[steve_bank]

Then what was Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and John F. Kennedy?

I'd say a bad cliche'

 

[ronburgundy]

If you fold your slice of pizza does that make it a sandwich? If not, then how can anything that doesn't have 2 separate pieces of bread qualify?

Maybe, since the dough is cooked with the other ingredients already on it, that makes folded pizza not a sandwich, for similar reasons that a calzone is not, b/c if it is then a cherry pie is a sandwich.

Also, does it even need bread or grain-based product as the outside? What about a Jibarito? It has all the qualities of a standard steak sandwich except the "bread" is actual flatted fried plantains (and it's amazing).

This is a dangerous discussion. Wars have been started over less.

 

[steve_bank]

It is mystifying to me how some people are able to navigate reality given what they find perplexing.