Yep. See my edited previous post.
Those look pretty good. Cool name, too. I wish I had known about that when I’d been in SA for a story, but I was so smitten by peri-peri/piri-piri chicken that I literally ate it every day from every vendor I could find. (And, yes, I understand it’s more from Mozambique.)
I’m not going to fault your choice (there’s a reason Nandos has been a successful export) but I am going to say you missed out on a lot of other possibilities. You should at least have hit up a braai joint. Like a BBQ joint, but very different taste.
Yeah, that’s all stuff I learned about afterwards – this would have been in 2002, when I didn’t have quite as much range culinarily. We tagged along with the Joburg police and kept going into these places under the motorway or near it and such, where there were sellers of all sorts, plus these really great looking (in terms of the food and smells–physically they were a bit rickety) food stands. The police would order their lunches from them, but would not let me, thinking it was too something for my delicate stomach. I was a bit annoyed, but I wasn’t going to argue too much with them. Still, I was happy with a week of peri-peri. Even on pizza. Had to mix it up, ya know!
We do have Nando’s here and, while good, it’s still not the same as the various places I tried out in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. It could be the romance of memory, but I really do think it was tastier.
ETA: Oh, I did make my own boerewors a couple years ago, but I’ve never had the real deal to compare it against. Regardless, whatever I ended up with was good.
We agree a pizza is not a sandwich. However, what I am saying is toppings that taste great on a sandwich would tend to taste good on pizza too even if unconventional, since bread and crust are not so dissimilar.
I would not call a hot dog a sandwich because if someone asks you to name five sandwiches it would not come up in an unforced way. The way people use words matters.
I suspect the “sandwicheness” of a hot dog drifted over time in US parlance, such that it is often not considered one now. (But it still resides under “sandwiches” in menus around here.) I do hear Polishes and Italians on a bun called “sandwiches,” so why not a Frankfurter? It’s not the prototypical sandwich (for me, a sub is the first thing I think of when I think of “sandwich,” followed by some random concoction you make with whatever bread-like substances you have around and whatever’s left in your deli drawer when you have nothing else to eat), but it fits the definition.
As for pizza, I think anything that goes with bread can go on pizza, and that includes a lot of sweet stuff. In fact, my pizza dough recipe is exactly the same as my basic bread dough recipe. There’s no difference. But I wouldn’t want to put Froot Loops on either. The whole concept of dessert pizza, though, is fine. I would rather work with fresh fruit or even Nutella or something like that. It’s not my bag – I’m not a dessert person, but I can see it working.
Earlier thread:
Aah, I see. I’m not sure I agree, necessarily - the difference is the heat, I think. One thing that I don’t personally like on pizza is avocado, whereas I love it on sandwiches. Then again, I don’t think I’ve had pineapple on a sandwich before…
Thought it felt familiar…
Yay, my medieval hot dog link is still alive… I mean, 17th c , but the medieval cookery site.
The way I define a sandwich or hot dog is one thing. The way I use the word may differ a bit from how you do, or it is commonly used in a given place. Which differs from place to place. I am not a lawyer nor an economic entity trying to figure out a way to tax some things and not others.
And I have never had pineapple on a sandwich, unless you count cooked in a crepe with melty cheese, which is much better than it may sound.
You could call it dessert pizza pie.
If crepes count, tacos al pastor should, too.
For those who really, really love pizza: a $360 24 carat gold pie.
Pineapple slices are a common ingredient in sandwiches that use teriyaki sauce with names like Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich or Aloha Burger.
Is a hamburger a sandwich? If a hotdog isn’t, nor a submarine sandwich (even though it’s in the frakken name), then neither is the hamburger.
McDonald’s supposedly thought about marketing a delicious Hula Burger at one point.
I see no reason why a hamburger wouldn’t be a sandwich. Even McDonalds refers to their burgers as sandwiches.
I hear the big kahuna burger is a tasty burger.
For whatever reason, I used to think of a sandwich as requiring two pieces of sliced bread. I don’t think I ever formalized it in my head, but I do remember being a little surprised when a friend referred to a hamburger as one. Nowadays I have no problem calling any combination of fillings surrounded by bread a sandwich.
See the assertion by @DrDibble above that anything constructed out of a singular roll rather than slices of bread – like the hotdog and the submarine – is not a “sandwich” but a “roll”. That should include the hamburger.
The Egg McMuffin is also not a sandwich, right?