Apparently you have never been to a White Castle’s.
I’ll add my support to that statement.
I’ve never seen a hamburger called a sandwich outside of a McDonald’s coupon.
Or Wendy’s! They use square meat patties.
When I say I grew up on open-faced sandwiches, I don’t mean the hot types that require a knife and fork to eat–I’m talking about a slice of Eastern European rye bread, some butter, a cold cut, optional cheese, and sometimes tomato and onion with a little salt and pepper. They were meant to be eaten bare-handed. Or when we had tomato sandwiches, they were only made with one slices of bread. Making these into true sandwiches with two slices of bread would have been much too heavy and bready with the texture of the bread that was common around the house.
This. If a one common ingredient is covering other ingredients, it is probably a sandwich.
Yet another “everything except open-faced”. An open-faced sandwich is a regular old dinner that happens to be served on top of the bread that came with it. I’ve never understood their alleged sandwichitude.
When I voted for open-faced, I meant a sandwich like this. It’s just a sandwich missing the top layer of bread. Turkey and gravy on a piece of white bread, though, or anything you can’t eat with your hands, I definitely don’t count as a sandwich.
I’m surprised to see an Englishman say that. I thought burger=sandwich was a purely American construction.
My definitions:
Sandwich - two slices of bread (cut from a loaf of bread) with stuff in it(hot or cold, doesn’t matter)
Burger - roll with a vaguely circular hot thing in it (beef pattie, veggieburger, chicken schnitzel)
Roll - roll with any other filling in it.
There may not be any particular kind of logic behind it, but it’s a comprehensive classification at any rate.
Those are the classifications I use- burgers aren’t sandwiches and sandwiches aren’t burgers. A steak sandwich is such if it’s served on bread sliced from a loaf; if it’s served on buns it’s a steak burger.
And gyros, and hot dogs, and… basically, “food inside bread”. Food on top of bread is a tapa, and if skewered a pincho.
All of them are sandwiches, even the burger. Definition of a sandwich is layer of whatever between 2 portions of bread. I may call a burger a burger and not sandwich but it is still a form of sandwich.
I agree that they are subsets, but that still makes them sandwiches. They have bread, filling, bread. That’s all that’s required. If they aren’t sandwiches, then paninis (aka pressed sandwiches) aren’t sandwiches.
But the best exampleof a sandwich in Mexican food is the is the tamale. They were designed to be portable food that can be held in a hand, and are made of bread with a filling inside, just like other foods you list as sandwiches.
While, yes, if you say you want a sandwich, the default is the classical variety, I think all of these things are subtypes.
Oh, and all cakes and cookie counts as bread, too. Ice cream sandwich, anyone?
Sandwiches are two pieces of bread, which are buttered or margarined with a filling.
In the U.K. if we have the equivalent, but made with a bread roll, we call it a (name of filling) roll.ie. a salad roll, a beef roll etc.
Hot dogs and burgers aren’t sandwiches, just as a Doner Kebab, even though it is served inside pitta bread is not a sandwich.
Most of these definitions are using bread as the defining attribute. Is the KFC Double Down dealy, for example, not a sandwich?
Or what about a hamburger that uses grilled cheese sandwiches for buns?
I think the term for that is “crime against nature”
I answered everything except a burger or a hot open-faced “sandwich,” but I can’t provide a logic for why some “stuff in/on bread” counts and some doesn’t. I think it’s like pornography: I know it when I see it.
What about a toad in a hole?
Bread on top, bread on the bottom, stuff in the middle. A sandwich. An evil sandwich but a sandwich nonetheless.
It’s not a regionalism. “Hamburger” is a contraction of a longer concept, like “hamburger sandwich” or “Hamburg-style sandwich.”
All the things in your list are sandwiches, except the open-face sandwich.
You’ve got it backwards. A sandwich is a general category of which all your other examples are specific instances.
You’re the one insisting that it is wrong to refer to a Coke as a variety of soda.