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Most of the sandwich debate is caused by ignoring adjectives. In the case of a submarine sandwich, it's a sandwich except we apply the adjective submarine to sa
by aero142 8y ago
Most of the sandwich debate is caused by ignoring adjectives. In the case of a submarine sandwich, it's a sandwich except we apply the adjective submarine to say we are modifying the bread situation. An open faced sandwich is just like a sandwich except we remove the top piece of bread. Which is why a hotdog is not a sandwich. We could have an adjective to say we are modifying the bread and another to say we are modifying the filling, but then there is nothing left of the sandwich portion, which is why we have a new word for it.
- logfromblammo 8y agoWhether you call it sandwich or not, the mathematical description of a hot dog is well within the bounds of the mathematical description of a sandwich. Fiddling about with adjectives is about as useful as saying that squares are not rectangles or rhombuses because otherwise they would be called rhomboid rectangles or rectangular rhombuses. The hot dog is a special case of a sausage submarine sandwich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_sandwich