Do you consider a hot dog to be a sandwich, why or why not?

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1. This is one of those manufactured issues that Big Hot Dog has made up in order to keep Americans from thinking too much about how nasty hot dogs really are.

2. Not something I eat often, particularly not here in Italy (I might eat one when I’m traveling, for example in the USA).

   Anyway, here I’d say it’s a sandwich.A split open bread roll with something inside… that is a sandwich.We have’panini’ and’tramezzini’, and other types too, but they are all sandwiches to me 😉

3. No. For me, a sandwich is either two slices of what we call “Toastbrot” or “Sandwichbrot” in Germany (in the US, I think it’s just considered white bread?) with some salad and stuff (I wouldn’t even think of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich as a sandwich, despite the name), or a sliced baguette with salad and toppings, like the ones you get at Subway’s.

4. [American style hotdog](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Hot_dog_with_mustard.png): yes.

   [European style hotdog](https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/european-hot-dogs-picture-id614052348): no.

5. The only hot dog I had was for school end of the year party and it was with a baguette. I’ve never ate an “american” one…

   To me they are not really sandwiches since they are supposed to be cool (according to the definition), since it’s hot it’s not really one.

   Same for Paninis, when we buy them we are like “are you taking a panini or a sandwich?”

6. No as typical hotdog here is a slim [sausage shoved into a hole in rohlík](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqgU645R_S-4OK7NQRtNKAINwC9I6W1V_uNOLfE-fYauyWn0glK2357tK40tPGO1I2WZE&usqp=CAU) which doesn’t look like a sandwich – two slices of bread with several things like ham, veggies, cheese, whatever between them.

7. No, a sandwich must consist of slices of bread and a hot dog is jammed between a bun. In the Netherlands that is a very clear distinction.

8. Well, in Turkish they are called “sosisli sandviç” (sandwich with sausage), so it is hard for me to think of them as anything else.

9. No. To me, a sandwich is cold and made of sliced bread.

10. In Norway we sometimes eat hotdogs in lompe, a potato based pancake looking thing. So it’s definitely not a sandwich.

11. No, a hot dog is a hot dog. A sandwich consists of two slices of bread with stuff in between

    Footnote: the meaty bit is called a sausage, not a hot dog. I have never understood why you call the dish and the ingredient the same thing

12. Polish for sandwich is “kanapka”, derived from French canapé (literally sofa). And kanapka looks like canapé/sofa (Polish: kanapa), you have a slice of bread and some ham, cheese or whatever on top of it.

    So per definition hot dog cannot be kanapka, because it does not look like sofa.

    Thank you

13. a sandwich would be something between two slices of toast bread. (I would not really call something between two slices of regular bread as a sandwich) and is cold unlike toast.

    a hotdog is a warm sausage sticked into a rohlik which is a breadroll

14. In the most general sense of the word sandwich, yes.

15. No, hot dogs are frankfurters on a bun (and the bun is usually not a “bready” bun either, so to speak). Sandwich needs either atleast one slice of bread or a breadier bun. Frankfurters aren’t really toppings I’d associate with sandwiches either.

16. No.

    If you say sandwich to me then I think of two slices of bread, and some kind of filling in between them. At a push I’d accept some kind of large bread roll like a baguette or panini with fillings as a sandwich, but that’s pushing the boundaries a bit. A hot dog is a hot dog, not a sandwich.

    As a teenager I had a job at a Burger King, and always found it odd that the communications from high up in the company would refer to the burgers as “sandwiches”.

17. I *guess* so but I wouldn’t really refer to it as such. If someone said “I am having a sandwich for lunch” you’d expect something between two slices of bread. But if you were to categorise a list of foods it may fit under the sandwich section, along with burgers and wraps maybe.

18. For me, yes. A sandwich is bread with stuff inside. It could be two slices in bread, it could be regular bread cut into top and bottom halves, and it could be a baguette cut alongside without being fully split into halves. All of these are sandwiches and a hot dog here is usually that last kind, a baguette with sausage and some more stuff.

19. In Spain the concept of sandwich is this and only this

    http://www.webmenaje.com/5495-thickbox_default/sandwichera-electrica-rebanadas-cuadradas-de-lacor.jpg

20. No, because a sausage sandwich already exists as a concept, and if a hot dog was a sandwich we would have to be able to use “sausage sandwich” and “hot dog” interchangeably, which would be impossible, as they are two completely different things.

21. In Austria, a “Sandwich” would be specifically an English style sandwich, as in white bread in triangles with some stuff in between.

    Everything else has their own individual name, usually consisting of the stuffing, and the type of bread – like “Wurstbrot”, “Käsesemmel”, etc. An American style hot dog is just that, a “Hotdog”.

22. No, it has its own name
    If it were a sandwich then it would be a sausage sandwich. But it’s not, it’s a hot dog.

23. In the words of RBG a hot dog is a sand which if you define a sand which as something including a hot dog

24. Besides the fact that we’re less of a sandwich nation than a “bread or bun with toppings” nation, people would probably think of stuff inbetween two slices of bread if you talked to them about sandwiches. Potentially subs as well. But a sausage in a bun is just a sausage in a bun. Hell, Bratwurst in a bun is one of our national dishes and we don’t call it either a hot dog or a sandwich.

25. No, I’m not even sure what it is but that’s not what a sandwich looks like to me.