I think a hot dog is a sandwich

[bugspray]

For me a sandwich is when the contents of the sandwich are surrounded on two sides by the same material and are exposed to the outside world and also the two sides must be at least kind of parallel (like at a 30 degree angle max I think)

So some stuff that isnt a sandwich imo:
* calzone
* pizza
* burrito
* poptart

but a taco is a sandwich

also it doesnt have to be food so if you get your head squeezed between thighs then congratulations you are part of a sandwich

[NotAJumbleOfNumbers]

how have you not known about the cube rule yet

[bugspray]

https://xkcd.com/927/

[Cheery Dog]

how have you not known about the cube rule yet

Steak is a salad, I'm happy to learn this

[vizIIsto]

The real question is: If a hot dog is a sandwich, is Cheery Dog also a sandwich?

[vizIIsto]

how have you not known about the cube rule yet

TIL that toast is not toast, it's a sandwich. Pizza is toast.

[talah]

and also the two sides must be at least kind of parallel (like at a 30 degree angle max I think)

I'm interested in your hotdog modelling here. the dog can take various states of "push", for example a really shallow cut on the bun and the angle that a dog would naturally take if it was only depressed into the initial cut. Surely that would be 90 degrees bun spread at a minimum, in which case, you're saying that sometimes a hotdog with a bun is a sandwich and sometimes not.

[shaft.ed]

i think the more difficult question is what category do chili dogs fall into

[SleepyKrew]

messy sandwich
like a sloppy joe

[Cephrir]

i'm usually a prescriptivist but i can make an exception for this one:

something is a sandwich if and only if calling it a sandwich would not confuse anyone. if it is not traditionally called a sandwich, it's not a sandwich.

[shaft.ed]

messy sandwich
like a sloppy joe

i think it depends more on the amount and the consistency of the chili

i've seen some chili dogs that looks like a bread bowl gone wrong

[talah]

matt stoney's nightly routine notwithstanding, i'd say that a sandwich is most things pressed between parallel bread slices.

[zeebu]

if i take 2 pieces of pizza and put them together so the toppings are on the inside is that a pizza sandwich?

[shaft.ed]

no its a calzone

[zeebu]

but a calzone and a stromboli are often the exact same thing and a stromboli is considered a sandwich

[shaft.ed]

stromboli is rolled
calzone is not

also stromboli =/= sandwich
unless we're going to call wraps sandwiches

[zeebu]

hmm i think ive expanded my sandwich definition to encompass sandwich-like items. so to me, a calzone , strom or wrap exists in a similar food-space as a sandwich.

either way its lunch time and i am hungry

[bugspray]

I think that if the inside food is completely engulfed by another material it stops being a sandwich. The contents being exposed to the open air and looking at them before you take a bite is an important part of the entire sandwich experience

[shaft.ed]

exactly
if stomboli and calzones are sandwiches
then so are egg rolls and crab rangoon

[bugspray]

Although if you slice up a calzone or stromboli I could see an argument that the individual pieces can be considered sandwiches.

I'd definitely categorie fully engulfed stuff as a pie it seems convenient to keep the likes of apple pie and pumpkin pie together

[shaft.ed]

i thought stromboli is usually served in slices

[bugspray]

yoink
edit: i thought we were 20 in a page??

[Papa Zito]

unless we're going to call wraps sandwiches

Dude they're literally called sandwich wraps what are you talking about.

yoink
edit: i thought we were 20 in a page??

Don't you feel silly now

[bugspray]

unless we're going to call wraps sandwiches

Dude they're literally called sandwich wraps what are you talking about.

yoink
edit: i thought we were 20 in a page??

Don't you feel silly now

a pizza pie isn't a pie

yes

[NotAJumbleOfNumbers]

i still think the cube rule is superior to any of your methods