The Final and Definitive Sandwich Thread

Are any of these sandwiches?


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The open face sandwiches I know are way to sloppy for that. Often smothered in gravy. Need a fork and knife to eat.

Yeah, that's a specialization that pushes boundaries. Not unique to the open face varieties though. I've definitely met a good number of two hands required sandwiches, and some meatball sandwiches that even did enough damage to the bread to get into fork territory.

I would support a clause in the definition excluding anything designed to be eaten with utensils.
 
If you have french fries and cheese sauce, what purpose does the bread serve?
It's the thing you dump everything on. It's the same idea as @Gori the Grey's but with different ingredients. There's also a hamburger patty on top of the bread but under the fries and cheese sauce. Some places add a squirt of hot sauce too.
 
I dunno man. My idea on what Gori meant is like chopped up turkey and gravy poured on a slice of bread after thanksgiving. The bread is sort of a core element. If there's a pile of fries it just seems like the 'get sorta soggy and sop up the juicy flavor' purpose of the bread has already been assigned. I'm not saying it's out of bounds, just that I can see myself digging through the pile of fries and being mostly perplexed to find a slice of bread left on the plate. The burger patty makes a little more sense of it, for me anyway.
 
The poll demonstrates the "wisdom of crowds" approach to the question; Subs, open faced and halves are all sandwiches. the others are not. :D
 
If anyone voted for an icecream sandwich I feel like you should by necessity have also voted for an oreo. Other than temperature, what is the difference?
One of them has the word sandwich in its name. That's why I found myself needing to approve of ice-cream sandwich. And the intrinsically problematic half-sandwich.
 
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What do you guys mean by taco? Is it the hard shell crunchy thing or the soft tortilla like thing?

Here it's hard and soft tacos. Ones crunchy like a giant corn chips/dorrito
 
If anyone voted for an icecream sandwich I feel like you should by necessity have also voted for an oreo. Other than temperature, what is the difference?
If you take more than about half a minute to eat an ice cream sandwich, it will melt and you'll have a mess.

If you take more than half a minute to eat an Oreo, you will still have at least part of an Oreo.

No. An Oreo is a cookie. An ice cream sandwich is a sandwich by its long long tradition of being called a sandwich. It has grandfathered rights to the name. Burgers, burritos, tacos, hot dogs, gyros, etc. do not; they are just jumped up wanna be sandwiches. They should be quite happy with their own designated niches. They will never be sandwiches.
Burgers and hot dogs will definitely be sandwiches if you don't have any specialized buns for them and have to substitute two slices of bread.

Meat between breads, eaten with one hand.
Depends on how it's cut. If it isn't cut either in halves or quarters, it's awkward to eat with one hand. And in the case of crumbly or runny fillings, two hands can help avoid making too much of a mess.

A burger is a meat patty. You can eat it without a bun. If you but it in a bun, it's a hamburger sandwich.
"Burger" is culturally understood in North America (well, mostly) to include both meat and bun, whether the meat is hamburger, chicken, sausage, or fish. Other fillings and condiments are optional.

A year ago last month I had to go to my dad's nursing home to sign some final paperwork after he died. The person I needed to talk to was busy, so the staff asked if I'd like a cup of tea. I figured why not, so they led me into the main dining room where they had a "high tea" event going on. I was invited to sit with a table with 6 or 8 other women, all 20-30 years older than me, and asked which kind of tea I'd like.

I picked cranberry (it's good if you add honey, as cranberry by itself is a bit tart), and then I was asked if I'd like to try some of the snacks. So just to have a new experience, I tried the cucumber sandwiches.

Well, they weren't bad taste-wise. But they were soggy and not very filling.
 
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A Pop-Tart is not a sandwich. It's a pastry.
A pop-tart is a cardboard envelope with some melted plastic inside, but point taken.
 
A burger is absolutely a sandwich you heretics

and yes despite being disgusting pop-tarts are delicious
 
A burger is absolutely a sandwich you heretics

and yes despite being disgusting pop-tarts are delicious
No, a Hamburger is a Hamburger; not a sandwich.
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No, a Hamburger is a Hamburger; not a sandwich.
So, on the menu at the local Jack-In-The-Box, in the section clearly marked "burgers," we find the delicious Sourdough Jack, in which the traditional bun is replaced with sourdough bread. This is various filling material between two slices of bread. Would you argue that this is not a sandwich?
 
A pop-tart is a cardboard envelope with some melted plastic inside, but point taken.
I didn't say it was a good pastry. :p

That said, there's a variety I haven't tried that's available on Amazon as an add-on. I'm considering finding out what it's like.
 
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