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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Burgers, Hotdogs, Calzones, Tacos, Burritos and the like aren't sandwiches.

[–] Steve@communick.news 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Burgers are sandwiches.
Hotdogs are tacos.
Burritos are calzones.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

Correct. The Cube Rule of Food Identification is used properly here.

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How come taco is it's own style but burrito isn't? I'd say calzone is a burrito.

[–] Steve@communick.news 1 points 6 months ago

If one is the other, than what's on which side of the equation doesn't really matter. They're still the same thing.
So sure a calzone is also a burrito. No difference really.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Hotdogs are tacos.

hard disagree. hotdogs are made with leavened bread, tortillas are a flatbread.

hotdogs are an open-faced sandwich.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

hotdogs are an open-faced sandwich.

I'm imagining a hot dog balancing on half a bun.

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hot dogs are just very congealed soup with soft croutons on the outside.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Everything is just congealed soup when you really think about it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It works. my grandpa’s quirky sandwich! Make a kosher hot dog, slice lengthwise, put on a slice of bread, pile high garlic salt and hot sauce, then the second slice. I do think it started off with him trying to make something no one would eat, but my brothers and I jumped on it, especially when it horrified the Moms. He always acted like a little kid with how happy it made him: us kids (even if he was 70+) vs the moms!

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

Oh I've done something similar! Get some curry ketchup on there and you've got a currywurst sandwich.

That's a sandwich though, the above comment said open face, so it's just a whole hotdog teetering on a cut open half of a hot dog bun.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The top is still open, the bun is split on the bottom.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

By that definition, all other sandwiches are open faced unless sealed on every side.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My local grocery carries hot dog shaped pita bread - that’s the only way we eat hot dogs now, fill em up with onions, chili, relish and mustard!

A hot dog is a gyro

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Gyros are Greek tacos?

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Look up Oki Dog. Definitely a burrito. Then ponder how badly you want one and how direly you'll regret it should you ever eat one.

The most famous Oki creation was--is--the eponymous Oki Dog, a couple of hot dogs wrapped in a tortilla with chili, pickles, mustard, a slice of fried pastrami and a torrent of goopy American cheese--a cross-cultural burrito that’s pretty hard to stomach unless you’ve got the tum of a 16-year-old, but strangely delicious nonetheless. - Jonathan Gold

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

that's neither a sandwhich nor a burrito. but an abomination.

(Well, okay. technically it's a burrito with a weiner in it. but it's not a hotdog.)(Still an abomination)

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what you would think of the Swedish Tunnbrödrulle...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’ll try almost any thing once. (There are limits. Fried grubs were like spicy/savory gummy bears. Baby octopus in red curry was amazing. “Live” baby squid was… interesting. Aborted duck egg is a hard nope.)

I suspect it has a lot to do with what else goes in it.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I don't know if I could handle one today but God they were good when I was younger

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not much, what's up with you?

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The top level distinction is topology.

Second level could be material categorization.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Hotdogs are grinders.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Legally, at least two of those are sandwiches in the state of Indiana.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

the creator of the GIF format says it's pronounced like "Jiff" like the peanut butter, but he's still wrong