:rolleyes: He did absolutely nothing of the sort. He was simply pointing out (correctly, as I see it), that your analogy was backwards with regard to specific vs. inclusive uses of words.
How about a knuckle sandwich with five jalapenos?
I think you are all prejudiced against people from Sandwich, UK.
You are all a bunch of Sandwich Felchers!
No, it’s a Chicken burger. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Exactly. To me, it’s only a sandwich if the bread is slices of bread from a loaf. Not a roll, a burger bun, a sub, or whatever.
That seems unusually narrow. What do you call the stuff Arby’s (or many roast beef places) make? Is it just roast beef on a bun?
We don’t have Arby’s here AFAIK (UK), but looking at their website I guess I would call that a roast beef roll.
To me that’s a weird burger. Actually, Arby’s is so unique I just call it Arby’s. It’s more burger than sandwich, though.
If it doesn’t have a ground meat patty, or at least a simulation of one (as in vege-burger), then it is not a burger. Any filling between round buns does not a burger make.
A “sandwich” has a very special meaning in Thailand. Hehehe. That’s all I’ll say.
Tell that to everyone who lists it on their menu as a chicken sandwich.
Hamburgers are a specific subset of sandwiches.
Since that’s “No-one” in Australia, I don’t need to. Even KFC call them “Chicken Burgers” here.
Here’s the clincher, is a KFC Double Down a sandwich? It doesn’t have bread… can it still be considered a sandwich?
Sorry if it’s been mentioned earlier, but MacDonald’s introduced a breadless sandwich in Thailand some time back. I think it was a chicken sandwich. Instead of bread, rice “buns” were used. That failed to go over, but the Japan-based Mos Burger, which is very popular here, has made a hit with it. (The rice is mixed with barley and millet.) These are mostly burgers, but I believe there’s also a sandwich or two.
How is that breadless? That’s just rice and millet bread… I don’t think the bread has to be made with wheat. I like the swiss miss at Big Boy- a swiss and rye bun patty melt
If you saw it, you would not think it was bread. I’m not talking about the bun in the photo in the link. That one’s for the burgers and don’t seem to be used at the Thailand outlets at all. The ones used here look and feels like two rice cakes.
Ah, here we go. This is the bun I’m talking about. That’s Mos Burger’s Unagi Burger. I suspect that one does not contain barley after all. This one for the Teriyaki Burger must be the one with barley.
There’s a neat snack in Thailand that consists of sticky glutinous rice flattened out and grilled, then beaten egg yolk is brushed onto it. Very tasty. That’s what this bun reminds me of.
All in all, I think one must also consider that, although, ubiquitous as they may be, Sandwiches are a regional and traditional food to England. No different than a Paris Brest, or a Hamburger, or a Frankfurter, or a Wiener, Dijon, or Buffalo Wings. So you might encounter some flack from aboriginals and traditionalists if you vary off the spectrum.
This is exceedingly odd. I’m usually a deranged stickler for these sorts of definition-based arguments. Yet, I’m inclined to take the more liberal approach to defining a sandwich. To me, anything that has meat (or anything that serves as the fundamental element of the meal), plus (usually) some kind of cheese and some sort of sauce, falls into the overarching category of “Sandwich.” Including pizza. It’s a mutated form of sandwich, to be sure, but a sandwich nonetheless. Think about New Yorkers who (mostly) are adamant that pizza slices should be eaten folded over–thus, “sandwiching” the toppings between the crust. Perhaps that illustrates how even pizza can, probably should, be considered some form of sandwich. (Stuffed pizzas, with crust above and below, also make this concept pretty clear.)
I think what goes into the thing is more important than the details of construction. Also, the fact that the item in question can be eaten as a hand-held unit. Thus, just about all of the above named items–hot dog, burger, burrito, wrap, pizza, etc.–is a sandwich, if you don’t get hung up on the taxonomic minutia. Ironically, the “open-faced sandwich”–especially the ones covered in gravy which must be eaten with utensils (if you don’t want to look like a pig at a trough) probably don’t qualify as true sandwiches, though they do have the ingredients.
I suggest everyone relax and just enjoy devouring your favorite “sandwich” for lunch or dinner tonight, whatever it may be. Bon appetit.
No, a pizza is Tomato Cheese Bread.