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How could that be a sandwich?! I don't want to cite the dictionary but a sandwich is distinctly a food where fillings are sandwiched by bread. A smørrebrød or t
by cdcarter 12y ago
How could that be a sandwich?! I don't want to cite the dictionary but a sandwich is distinctly a food where fillings are sandwiched by bread. A smørrebrød or tartine can be tasty, but don't claim they're a sammie.
- talmand 12y agoCurious, was the word "sandwich" used in that context before the invention of the sandwich by the Earl of Sandwich? If not, I don't think you can use a secondary definition of a word as an example for the primary definition when the secondary definition exists solely because of the primary definition.
- kgwgk 12y agoThis reminds me of a great line from DeVito in Heist: “Everybody needs money! That's why they call it money!” http://miniver.blogspot.ch/2004/02/everybody-needs-roger-ebert.html http://miniver.blogspot.ch/2004/02/everybody-needs-roger-ebe...
- cdcarter 12y agoThere was a logical flaw there perhaps, but I stand by my point. Per a Guardian article linked side-thread, the sandwich was invented by our good Earl for a easily portable and hand-eatable food. One would not call an open-faced nightmare that.