What makes a sandwich?

[DotCommunist]

thats a woeful attempt to fit AD&D style character leanings into the world of sandwiches. They've had to make some reaches. Nobody calls a wrap a sandwich. Nobody calls a baguette a sandwich. Rubbish

 

[WouldBe]

Its the bread to contain/constrain the filling.

its a kebab

*shakes fist at sky*

So a kebab between 2 slices of bread is a sandwich then.

 

[High Voltage]

It. is. not. a. topping. It. is. a. filling.

FFS if they can't even get the basics right what hope do they have of getting anything right

 

[Fez909]

 

[Orang Utan]

thats a woeful attempt to fit AD&D style character leanings into the world of sandwiches. They've had to make some reaches. Nobody calls a wrap a sandwich. Nobody calls a baguette a sandwich. Rubbish

You can have a baguette sandwich, just as long as you separate the two halves

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

 

[Wookey]

You can have a baguette sandwich, just as long as you separate the two halves

Hang on a mo Geronimo!

Completely separate? With no handy adjoining hinge?!

 

[Orang Utan]

Hang on a mo Geronimo!

Completely separate? With no handy adjoining hinge?!

No, i bought a sub from Gregg's at the weekend and cos it wasn't separated properly, all the filling splurged out the side. Shite.

 

[Orang Utan]

What's double down?

 

[High Voltage]

When I were an apprentice, a roll were called a fuckin' roll - none of this "baguette" lah-de-dah nonsense, and don't get me going on "subs" - which are also rolls and can never be a sandwich

 

[High Voltage]

Fuckin' baguettes, my arse!

 

[Orang Utan]

Fuckin' baguettes, my arse!

Baguette is the best sandwich bread. It actually has integrity and substance, unlike those soggy thin slices that you get in supermarket sarnies.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

You can't get them in the UK

 

[UnderOpenSky]

What's double down?

Fried chicken, cheese and bacon. Not a sandwich, but looks tasty.

 

[High Voltage]

Baguette is the best sandwich bread. It actually has integrity and substance, unlike those soggy thin slices that you get in supermarket sarnies.

Couldn't agree more . . . for a roll, it's just not and never will be a sandwich, I'll begrudgingly give you baguette even though it's a roll

This isn't going to become like your "This is my cafe and you're going to have your breakfast how I say it's going to be" thread, is it?

 

[Orang Utan]

Fried chicken, cheese and bacon. Not a sandwich, but looks tasty.

But why is it called that?

 

[Orang Utan]

Couldn't agree more . . . for a roll, it's just not and never will be a sandwich, I'll begrudgingly give you baguette even though it's a roll

This isn't going to become like your "This is my cafe and you're going to have your breakfast how I say it's going to be" thread, is it?

Rolls are round.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

What's double down?

Instead of bread, they use 2 fried chicken breasts. You can feel your arteries clog as you eat it. It's sure to double your cholesterol.

 

[Orang Utan]

And a sandwich can be made from a roll. Roll is the bread, the sandwich occurs when you slice it in two and put some meat, cheese, whatever in

 

[DotCommunist]

its still a roll. A cheese and ham roll. A chicken tikka roll.

 

[Orang Utan]

its still a roll. A cheese and ham roll. A chicken tikka roll.

Which are types of sandwich. The shittiest, smallest ones.

 

[maomao]

A roll is a sandwich. A hamburger is a sandwich. A croque-monsieur is not a sandwich because it has part of the filling on the outside.

 

[kabbes]

I just took a curious look at the dictionaries and found a real split there in terms of what a sandwich is. Oxford goes strictly for two slices of bread with food in between. Merriam-Webster, on the other hand, not only includes a split roll too but also a SINGLE slice of bread with food on top of it. Dictionary.com has the rather non-specific "bread or the like" as the outer layer.

 

[Santino]

The figurative sense of sandwich is of a thing between two other things.

"At the Academy Awards last year, I was sandwiched between Sir Ian McKellen and Sigourney Weaver."

One would never say "At the Academy Awards last year, I was open sandwiched by Sir Ian McKellen."

 

[ruffneck23]

What Is a Sandwich? (No, Seriously, Though)

it even went to court...

 

[DotCommunist]

The figurative sense of sandwich is of a thing between two other things.

"At the Academy Awards last year, I was sandwiched between Sir Ian McKellen and Sigourney Weaver."

One would never say "At the Academy Awards last year, I was open sandwiched by Sir Ian McKellen."

I was subbed by tilda swinton. Good dream that

 

[Orang Utan]

One thing is certain, wraps are not sandwiches and are pretty useless even when they're not posing as them.

 

[Bonfirelight]

One would never say "At the Academy Awards last year, I was open sandwiched by Sir Ian McKellen."

Not at the actual ceremony, no, but those after parties get pretty rowdy..

 

[Orang Utan]

Doe Subway make proper sandwiches? I can't recall whether they split the bread or not.
They're horrible whatever they are.

 

[Santino]

Wraps are clearly a kind of sandwich, if by 'kind of' you mean 'belong to a general class of things that also includes sandwiches', but not if by 'kind of' you mean 'is one of a sub-class of a larger set of sandwich-ness' (where that set is strictly defined as incorporating the notion of discrete (non-hinged) outer layers of bread).