At first I was thinking "huh, that never crossed my mind - maybe they are!" but then I did some research and found this website http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-sandwich which made me think that hot dogs are not sandwiches.
Huh. That is a very good question. Well, it is technically something stuffed in between bread. If they are considered sandwiches, then by that logic, does that mean hamburgers are sandwiches too? Probably, or they could be their own thing entirely because the meat on the inside is already cooked. ...I dunno, I'm just rambling now.
They are not sandwiches because the term 'hot dog' refers simply to the meat. The bun is not a part of the hot dog, so technically speaking, it is not a sandwich.
I agree with FireSpartan. But if you want, you can always see them as a bread taco. (obvious joke responce)
Only if they're between two separate, individual pieces of bread. And maybe have ketchup. Ketchup is very important.
Like FireSpartan said, the hot dog at its core isn't a sandwich, just a sausage. Additionally, the definition for a sandwich is a foodstuff consisting of a filling between two pieces of bread. A 'hot dog' contains just the sausage and singular bun, which is just one piece of bread. I therefore declare that a hot dog is not a sandwich.
Sandwich: an item of food consisting of two piece of bread with meat, cheese, or other filling between them, eaten as a light meal. A hotdog bun is not two slices of bread. It is one. Not a sandwich. Case closed.
Does that mean that subs are not sandwiches? Subs are made with a single slice (or rather, as in the case of the hotdog bun, a loaf) of bread.
If you tear a hotdog bun so it's not joined at the bottom, what distinguishes it from any other sandwich that you would get on a sub? Is the fact that the bread is just sort of cut down the middle what distinguishes it from being a sandwich? I don't think I would call it a sandwich though, since you would never put the majority of the things you can pile onto a hotdog onto any other sandwich.
Hotdogs are hotdogs, not sandwiches. Have you ever heard someone call it a sandwich? They aren’t sold at sandwich shops either.
It didn't say 'two slices'; it said 'two pieces'. The bread used in a submarine sandwich is divided lengthwise, i.e. cut in half, so it becomes two pieces of bread; ergo, a submarine sandwich would count as a sandwich. Sometimes the two pieces are left connected by a thread, but that's generally for ease of holding the ingredients together; in practise, the pieces are separate. To return to the original subject at hand, whether or not something counts as a sandwich generally doesn't tend to matter. If it's something edible, and you like the taste of it, then you will eat it, with whatever trappings you deem standard for how you eat the food. You don't eat a hot dog because it's a sandwich; you eat it because you think it tastes great. So, in summation: Spoiler: tl;dr
They're technically a sub when you really think about it. Subs are sandwiches so yeah I'd say they are
A hot-dog sausage can (however loosely) be defined as a meat. At the very least, there is usually some sort of meat product in the sausage. If, as Eclipse says, the two sides of a sub or hot-dog bun are essentially two pieces of bread, then the hot-dog fits all the criteria for being a sandwich. #MissingNo
Hot dogs are a subclass of a sandwich, sort of like rectangles and squares. A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn't a square. Same thing for hot dogs, a hot dog is a sandwich but a sandwich isn't a hot dog.
You are all missing the point. The bun is not a part of the hot dog itself, so even if the dog IN the bun could be considered a sandwich, just a hot dog could never be considered a sandwich because there is no bread.
Hot dogs couldn't be sandwiches anyway. They come in packages of 6, while the buns come in packages of 8. The disparity between the two means there's no balance. As sandwiches are balanced, this means hot dogs are excluded from consideration.
