I understand that many of the examples are just absurdism in action, but I have trouble understanding the resistance to labeling a hot dog as a sandwich. But o

I understand that many of the examples are just absurdism in action, but I have trouble understanding the resistance to labeling a hot dog as a sandwich. But on the other hand, my wife likes to troll me by calling buttered toast a "butter sandwich", so maybe some rigor in our definitions would do my life some good.