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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes.

A hot dog is also a sandwich

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure flatbread predated leavened bread, so it’s reasonable to conclude tacos predated both hot dogs and sandwiches.

Conclusion: Hot dogs are tacos, sandwiches are broken tacos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are pizzas just unfinished tacos then?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pizza is just an open face sandwich, but arguments can be made that New York style is a taco because most people fold it to consume it.

Have to ask yourself what a calzone is then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A calzone is a wrap/burrito. Unless uncrustables are in play and are recognized as their own distinct category. In which case a calzone is an uncrustable or vice versa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next thing you're going to tell me is a pasty is a burrito.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pastries are an umbrella category of baked goods that are usually but not always sweet. The composition of the dough and preparation techniques are different and distinct from the sandwich debate. Though I guess you could make the case for empanadas. Or that calzones are large Italian empanadas and uncrustables are also a type of empanada. Hmmm 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they’re baked burritos for sure!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A loaf of bread.

Bread often has stuff baked into it, so what's the difference between a loaf of bread with cheese or nuts baked into it vs. a loaf with chicken, cheese, and marina sauce baked into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sort of. As the other commenter pointed out, they are open face.

Sandwiches are broken tacos, but pizzas are not broken.

Pizzas are open face tacos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

and thus kitchens are just covered campfires now?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What? No.

A hot dog is a taco.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ehem, well actually leavened bread came out way after flatbreads - so sandwiches are broken tacos.

It’s all tacos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Taco is Mexican for sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well, everyone knows that.

But by current BSA standards a taco is a sandwitch. So it checks out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So sandwich is the parent category, and hot dogs are a type of sandwich? Are burgers, too?

Oh no I accidentally started researching, there is an actual British Sandwich Association that defines sandwich as "any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold". The USDA, however, has different definitions for open and closed sandwiches and it depends on the percentage amounts of bread and meat... I guess if you put cheese on your bread it's not a sandwich at all!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heresy! I demand the BSA's definition to be accepted and adopted everywhere! "if you put cheese on your bread its not a sandwich at all!" - this is unbeliveable and hilarious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know, lol. Seriously how many well-known sandwiches have “cheese” or “melt” right in their name?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Any form of bread with a filling, generally assembled cold

But, dare I say, does that not make a ravioli a sandwich? A poptart? Mayhaps even … Lasagna?

Ah, you proclaim! But those are cooked further!

But so too is a grilled cheese! And a patty melt!

Where will the madness end?