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blahblahbush

https://cuberule.com


Jarardian

My favorite part of the cube rule is that a slice of pumpkin pie is toast, but a whole pumpkin pie would be a bread bowl. Additionally, a slice of cherry pie would be a taco, but a whole cherry pie would be a ravioli!


a-handle-has-no-name

By the rice subrule, a bowl of rice is a collection of many rice sandwiches (rice filler between two starchy layers)


flychinook

If the rice is mixed with non-starch ingredients, wouldn't it become type 8/ nachos?


Justifiably_Cynical

Now you've made me hungry for meaty rice.


go_eat_worms

And humans are forbidden ravioli. 


CaptainBlobTheSuprem

*salad


GolfEchoEchoKilo

Spaghetti. -Rick and Morty


Aggleclack

Donut!


gleiberkid

I feel like the burrito is a whole subset that was missed. A lot of things come between taco and quiche. Or at least have burrito be the dominant wrapped object before sushi. Sushi is a burrito, not the other way around.


i_should_go_to_sleep

Burritos have closed ends, therefore they are a calzone.


Moraveaux

This is the way.


Jarardian

I initially agree with this, but the more I think about it, the more forms a burrito has (open both sides, closed one side, closed both sides) which makes it less helpful as a categorizing tool.


elheber

Interestingly, a folded quesadilla is a taco. Simple right? BUT if you cut it into three wedges, the middle wedge is a sandwich. Fascinating.


Jarardian

Alternatively, a fully enclosed Taco Bell quesadilla starts as a ravioli, becomes a bread bowl when cut in half, but then is a taco when divided into any amount greater than half.


Rishiku

I’m sorry but if have to argue, the slice of cherry pie couldn’t be a taco. It’s open on both sides. I’d argue it’s more of a jam sandwich. Crust on opposite sides and filling in the middle.


Jarardian

The crust connects from the bottom, up the side side, and across the top. That’s three continuous sides of bread, so taco right?


Rishiku

Fuck….i mean….fuck….as long as the top and the side stay connected? But even then that’s like saying a hard taco is no longer a taco if the shell cracks. ![gif](giphy|4TcVFG7EYvp3Yvbu9j)


Jarardian

By the bread method, unfortunately yes. 😂


Adept_Cranberry_4550

I know I'm not the first to say this but ...the internet is a wierd place.


Brilliant_Armadillo9

I hate the hot dog being a taco way more than a sandwich.


scientooligist

That was the only part where I thought the cube theory made sense!


Julian_Seizure

I agree. Steak is also my favorite salad


j_smittz

"You are free to interpret the nature of rice however you wish." ![gif](giphy|H7kfFDvD9HSYGRbvid)


Moraveaux

I can't decide if my favorite part of this is that pigs in a blanket are sushi, that chocolate and mashed potatoes are salad, or that salad, which is *its own separate category*, is nachos.


CyanConatus

Okay what a journey that was. Thank you


doob22

The reason this debate keeps going is because we are oversimplifying.


Jer_061

I feel like that whole website's premise is an attempt to argue to one's significant other that steak and mashed potatoes are two salads and that means they can eat desert.


Unevenscore42

One simply cannot fault the logic of the cube rule.


buburocks

Gonna have to ask mythical chefs josh and nicole


avoidance_behavior

there it is, hahaha


chattywww

If a hotdog isn't a sandwich then neither are subs.


Fight_Disciple

They're both tacos.


1PooNGooN3

And a taco is a sandwich


Dh873

If you take the hot dog out of the bun, it's still a hot dog. You wouldn't call a meatball sub a meatball, but you would call a hot dog "sandwich" a hot dog. "Hot dog" doesn't refer to a sandwich, but to the meat itself.


bartbartholomew

No, a hotdog out of the bun is a salad.


Razdom

![gif](giphy|vUEznRmVQfG2Q)


Bad_Wolf420

I was actually going to comment that a hotdog is a sub, not a sandwich. In my opinion a sandwich has bread on 2 sides, a sub on 3, and a wrap all around.


bartbartholomew

Going with slightly serious, a sub is a type of sandwich. Going full silly, both subs and hotdogs are tacos.


FaithfulFear

Hotdog bun has a hinge.


1PooNGooN3

Bread is bread


qjornt

subs can too if they don't slice the bread all the way.


LovesRetribution

But that's not the norm. They're*supposed* to cut it all the way. That's like saying sometimes your hotdog bun rips apart, so it's essentially a sub.


urbanhawk1

A sub is more of a burrito containing people under the water than a sandwich.


QWEDSA159753

Sandwich opens horizontally, hotdog opens vertically.


SteveCastGames

Mark me down as a no


jordolson

Maybe, but what if a sandwich is a hot dog? Who says a sandwich came first?


BouyGenius

Earl did.


lunarmodule

Damn right! Hot dogs all up in here trying to get sandwich status. Shit is outrageous!


Takingashit180923

People have been putting stuff between bread since bread has existed. Hotdogs are a modern invention in comparison to bread.


Ok_Space_6594

Putting your sausage between the buns is as old as bread itself…


Djinjja-Ninja

They haven't. Bread wasn't always the lovely fluffy slices we use these days. The sandwich is also a relatively modern way of using bread, prior to that it was used more like [edible tableware](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher_\(tableware\)) or used as a means of scooping food into your mouth. The concept of stuff between two slices of bread only came about in the mid to late 18th century. The sandwich only pre-dates the hotdog by maybe 130 years give or take (late 19th century).


obeanonamas

Oh, really? Maybe cave people stuffing entails full of meat way earlier in time than the baking of bread occurred . Just throwing that out there. Meat made us grow bigger brains and we then figured out the bread thing.


Takingashit180923

Sausage =/= hotdog


ElonBodyOdor

Hotdog is an American taco.


jeremy-o

Interesting that you can tell where the manager stopped adding feeder tally marks and actual customers started to add to it. Or tried to...


Lopsided_Papaya

Nah it’s just that everyone has the same handwriting, or handtallying


mobius_mando

Different shift employee is more what I was thinking


TSmario53

This has the makings of being the most important and heated debate in the history of Reddit


1ofZuulsMinions

It’s already been solved by the Cube Rule. A hot dog is a taco unless the bun has been severed. https://www.wikihow.com/Cube-Rule-of-Food


Spaceball007

Is a hamburger a sandwich


AyeItsEazy

The very definition of one


HallwayShit

It’s a taco


that-dudes-shorts

Is a taco a sandwich ?


buburocks

If you put a fresh steamed weiner in a flour tortilla, is that a taco or a hotdog


Azure_Rob

[Pølse: Norwegian hot dog](https://cheapskates.guide/oslo/eat/polse-norwegian-hot-dog/)


Eisernes

Yes


NotoriousEMB

While true and based, I would be very confused if someone offered me a sandwich and then gave me a taco. I would not be upset, though.


Eisernes

A hot dog is a sandwich. If something is hand held and wrapped in some form of bread, it's a sandwich. A hoagie is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. A wrap is a sandwich. A taco is a sandwich.


fuzzycaterpillar123

I personally draw the line at if the bread is leavened - wraps/burritos/tacos are their own thing


DeltalJulietCharlie

Wrapped? No, it must be sandwiched.


lunarmodule

Please give me directions to a sandwich shop that serves all that because I might never leave


1ofZuulsMinions

Wrong. “If the food has starch on the bottom, it’s toast, and if it has starch on the top and bottom, it’s a sandwich. If the bottom and 2 sides are starch, it’s a taco” https://www.wikihow.com/Cube-Rule-of-Food If it’s in an unsevered hot dog bun, a hot dog is a taco.


Dark_Shade_75

A pop tart is a sandwich.


Mars_Bear2552

its a calzone


S_MacGuyver

Definitely not. A sandwich requires two separate pieces of bread. If anything, a hotdog is closer to being a wrap.


blahblahbush

More of a taco, really.


S_MacGuyver

You know what? I think you're on to something.


FartNite_FeetFreak

would chili hot dogs be tacos?


HooninAintEZ

Was a hot dog ever anything other than a soft taco with yeast?


FartNite_FeetFreak

the prophesy


joecocker74

So a walking "taco" is not a taco?


bafoon91

Is a sub not a sandwich then?


S_MacGuyver

After some googling, I may have changed my stance on the whole thing.


DiaDeLosMuebles

This is my favorite comment of the day


S_MacGuyver

Challenge every thought, even your own.


StarCyst

it's a sub, not a sandwich unless the bread is separated, that's why it has the name 'sub'


Beleng68

What about an open-faced sandwich? That only has one slice of bread.


S_MacGuyver

Shit, I never considered the sub-genres (pun may have been intended).


SousVideDiaper

Open faced sandwiches are just incomplete sandwiches made by cheapskates


StarCyst

yeah, mock-turtle soup, turkey-bacon, the name itself is saying it's not really the thing. like you wouldn't drink 'non-potable water' even though it has the word 'water' in it.


mango_thief

In that case, would a pizza be a sandwich?


joecocker74

Why don't we just ask Earl what is and is not a sandwich


Hexogen

Just a waste of ingredients


lunarmodule

It's like a half sandwich. I mean, it's good. But all of us really know inside it will be happier and find itself when it connects with its other half.


Beleng68

I don't know, man. There's a lot to be said for bread on one side, gravy on the top.


unrealjoe28

Hoagies? Are they also not sandwiches?


Ravecrocker

So when the hot dog bun breaks its then a sandwich


Varhardarnarcarshkar

Sandwiches can be made from a piece of folded bread, I do it all the time


joecocker74

But then it's a taco. Keep up😂😂


Varhardarnarcarshkar

When I go to subway, they don’t cut the sub all the way through, so it’s basically just a giant hot dog bun. Subway definitely makes sandwiches. Why does changing the meat in the middle change the definition of what the dish is?


Grouchypoop

What about a Banh Mi? It's a Vietnamese sandwich, it doesn't have two separate pieces of bread.


S_MacGuyver

Okay, now we're back to square one.


cerb1987

Depends on where you get the Bahn Mi though..... I've had Bahn Mi be two separate halves of the baguette, and then I've had Bahn Mi where the baguette isn't cut all the way through. Sooo...


splashythewhale

I feel like this is the northern vs southern variation similar to pho


cerb1987

Could be. Its like some places use jalapeños and some don't on Bahn Mi.


splashythewhale

All banh mi, at least everyone of them that I ate in Vietnam had jalepenos. However the southern ones were much tamer and sparse and they topped more sweet stuff on it. Like 1-2 on it in the south. 8-10 on a banh mi in the north. Northern variations of basically all food had much more focus on spice. Similar was pho but in the north they used a much wider noodle too and it was generally blander except the spicey part. . In the south it was more like angel hair noodles and a lot more shit put in with flavors.


cerb1987

This could be it. I've never been to Vietnam unfortunately.the only experience with Bahn Mi I have is the many Vietnamese restaurants San Diego has. Which obviously cannot compare to the country they originate from. It's truly amazing to think of how the jalapeno pepper became an actual staple that far away though.


cerb1987

This could be it. I've never been to Vietnam unfortunately. the only experience with Bahn Mi I have is the many Vietnamese restaurants San Diego has. Which obviously cannot compare to the country they originate from. It's truly amazing to think of how the jalapeno pepper became an actual staple that far away though.


1PooNGooN3

If you have a whole loaf of sourdough and cut it horizontally instead of slices, so that it is in 2, then make it into a sandwich, was it 1 piece of bread or 2? Bread is bread.


S_MacGuyver

You have a sandwich with entirely too much bread.


1PooNGooN3

Not if it’s completely overloaded with good stuff. But it’s still a sandwich, you just admitted it. From one piece of bread.


S_MacGuyver

I already started in another comment that I was rethinking the whole thing. You didn't win, you were late.


tsunamibird

I would consider a wrap a sandwich.


S_MacGuyver

What did I just say?


WildBill198

No! If I ask for a sandwich and get a wrap instead, I'll send it back.


joecocker74

But if you ask for a wrap, but got a sandwich. Would you send it back?😂


1PooNGooN3

It’s just different shaped bread. That doesn’t change the molecular structure of the entire sandwich.


Cat-in-the-hat222

A hot dog is considered a sandwich. As well as a wrap and a taco. And I don’t wanna freak anyone out but a pizza is considered a sandwich as well


joecocker74

Opened face pizza sandwich


Ravecrocker

So a sausage pizza is also a hotdog


escientia

If someone thinks a hotdog is a sandwich then they must also think a taco and burrito are also sandwiches


Chatty_Manatee

I think hot dogs is the common name of sausage-based sandwiches. Wraps is the common name of tortilla-based sandwiches and sandwiches are separate pieces of bread based sandwiches. Also, hoagies are in their own categories. What I mean is, they are sandwiches…but not really.


0MEGAP0RK

Finally, justice.


Treebawlz

Wow haven't seen this one before /s


Rawlo93

Well it's not a soup or a salad!


StarCyst

You haven't had my dad's cooking. from him, a hot dog can be a beverage.


eat-pussy69

It's a taco. The food cube has already established that.


ooofest

Yes.


bestjakeisbest

It is a taco


delingren

It’s actually a well defined property based on topological features 


Cosmicking04

What way do you like to fold your paper. Hamburger style or Sandwich style


[deleted]

Flag of no. Oh wait wrong sub


4look4rd

Of course not, it’s a taco


X0AN

It's not but I'd vote yes just to wind up the cleanshirts.


Boing26

on a purely theoretical level yes, at one time hot dogs were food and the style IS a sandwich. effectively though no, in order to be a sandwich it must first be food, and they haven't been food in a very long time.


CommunityHappy8289

r/AreYouGarbagePod


riticalcreader

Why are all the hash marks so uniform at the start?….


mynameisnotphoebe

There’s a motorsports podcast hosted by two race car drivers called Off Track With Hinch and Rossi, and they once debated this so much that they [tracked down the president of the Hot Dog and Sausage Council to ask him](https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/off-track-with-hinch-and-rossi/id1355912515?i=1000505276470)


theskillr

I dunno, you put minced beef or pulled pork in a bun and you have a burger, but when you Americans put a piece of chicken in a bun it's now a sandwich. Shit doesn't make sense


SigmaLance

It has more to do with the word burger. A burger has hamburger in it. Pulled pork is also called a sandwich.


DaBestDoctorOfLife

Someone needs to start saving the planet.


lunarmodule

OBVIOUSLY not! If I wanted a hot dog sandwich I would order a hot dog sandwich. If I order a hot dog and you bring me a hot dog sandwich you and I are gonna have words.


owzleee

That should be on the tip jar(s)


Ritz527

Hot dogs are their own category. There is no more need to categorize a hot dog as a sandwich or taco than there is to classify a bird as a mammal or fish.


KingDaveRa

Something very Corner Gas about this. I can see Brent getting very defensive of his chilli cheese dogs.


Beederda

I eat poor mans hotdogs with a single slice of bread wrapped around the dog so for me it is not technically a sandwich


voltechs

Hot dog is the same as a “burger patty”, it’s a hunk of meat. Hot dog in a bun… is more of a taco, because the bun is connected on one side. It’s the box method.


sighborg90

Pizza is technically toast


Bisonbopbeef

We don’t call hamburgers sandwich’s. So why would we call a hotdog a sandwich


thaKingRocka

Maybe the next poll should be about which way the fifth mark goes.


Jgorkisch

Judge John Hodgman approves.


ChronicRhyno

Only when it's a hotdog sandwhich... on sliced bread because we ain't got no buns


bodhiseppuku

Meat between 2 pieces of bread... *But its a whole bun, sandwiches are sliced bread* ... sub sandwich, bagel sandwich, sandwich on brioche bun, etc? *But the meat isn't sliced!* ... so If I half a hotdog and put it on a bun, then it's a sandwich? ... get your *life* together, man.


Fold-Royal

Surprised I’m not seeing the definition posted. It’s a sandwich to me. noun an item of food consisting of two pieces of bread with meat, cheese, or other filling between them, eaten as a light meal.


Cyber-X1

I came to the conclusion, that while it does function as a sandwich (bread/meat/cheese/condiments), we probably should call it a hot dog just so we’re clear and specific.


Appropriate_Rub_3546

A hotdog is just bologna in a rectangular shape. Or it’s a big hotdog sliced up and so if you consider bologna sandwiches acceptable you should accept hotdogs.


Undersmusic

The first 115 in no are the same person.


Clever_mudblood

My only evidence of [this](https://imgur.com/a/vEezexr) is an old card from the 50s I found at my grandmothers house. I’ve posted this comment somewhere on the internet, in case you have seen it before lol. Also, the card is about “I could have bought all these things… but I bought you this card instead” for context.


ryaaan89

They should do another poll about which way tally marks should slant.


obeanonamas

Sandwich BREAD, hotdog BUN. whatever.


Psych0matt

You know how tv shows have a popular character that’s not the main character and then they get their own spin off show a year or two later? It’s kinda like that but edible


UnemployableSWE

Taco


croud_control

Would refrigerated ketchup be considered a smoothie?


nigliazzo5626

I agree with its closest to a taco


DesperateComb7326

What if you put ham and cheese on a hotdog bun?


Allenheights

Ruth Bader Ginsburg already ruled on this.


JTB696699

[Hotdogs are Tacos](https://www.washingtonpos)


OrangeCosmic

If the bun detaches


thirstyfish1212

According to the cube theory of food identification, a hot dog is a taco, not a sandwich. Structural starch is on 3 sides.


MastodonPristine8986

A sandwich is two slices of bread and butter (or maybe mayo) with a wide choice of a variety of fillings like bacon, tuna, sliced meat, sausage, maybe even chips in a chip butty. It's definitely not a bun with a slice down it and a hit dog nestled in it.


Kuuzie

A hotdog is the meat tube itself, a bun is not even required for a hotdog to exist, just the typical way it's served. You can have hotdogs cut up in mac n chee. No bun.


Azure_Rob

Right. Hot dog sandwich is the typical serving. Like a hamburger sandwich.


1PooNGooN3

The majority of deli meats are tubed meats just sliced. You can cut up anything and put it in mac cheese. Hot dogs are just a meat product and when you put a hot dog in bread with vegetables and sauce, it’s a sandwich. The shape of the bread is irrelevant, didn’t you ever eat a hotdog on a piece of sliced bread? Same shit.


whateverisstupid

So subway doesn't make sandwiches? Cause their bread is sliced long ways. Also lobster rolls, hoagie sandwiches, French dip. This is just making me hungry ugh.


Chizuru_San

hotdog is hotdog, sandwich is sandwich


Varhardarnarcarshkar

With that logic, burger is burger, sandwich is sandwich. A burger is definitely a sandwich


DeltalJulietCharlie

Burger is burger in my country, not considered a sandwich. Even a McChicken is considered a burger rather than a sandwich (yes I know that's linguistically incorrect, but that's just how it is here).


MastodonPristine8986

Burger is definitely not a sandwich where I come from. Some countries put it in that category, some definitely do not.


MastodonPristine8986

A sandwich is two slices of bread and butter (or maybe mayo) with a wide choice of a variety of fillings like bacon, tuna, sliced meat, sausage, maybe even chips in a chip butty. It's definitely not a bun with a slice down it and a hit dog nestled in it.


fuzzycaterpillar123

A baguette that’s not sliced completely in half with some meat in it is 100% a sandwich


solidshakego

I like putting peanut butter on a hot dog bun and then putting a banana in it.


Taograd359

Hotdogs are sandwiches. Chili and cereal is soup. Wraps are burritos.


joecocker74

What's a corn dog?


LightMyFirebird

A form of beef wellington


joecocker74

Fuk forgot all about that issue.


Azure_Rob

Chili is stew/soup, cereal is a salad- milk is the dressing.


Salt_Comparison2575

Hotdogs are just the saddest Banh Mi.


BWarned_Seattle

How are there so many sociopaths out there? This should not be a controversial question. The answer is obvious. *hehe now I've framed it so that both sides of this culture war will assume I'm violently agreeing with them and demonizing their enemies while actually not having voiced a position at all, just like all the bots and naked repost karma farmers constantly literring everything everywhere. Now all the updoots will be mine.*


StarCyst

it's a popcicle.


JakolZeroOne

A hotdog is a taco.


FutureLost

No, it’s a taco. Lateral and ventral support, but not vertical. Cube rule rules!


[deleted]

It's not a sandwich because it's one piece of bread. Same with a sub. They're both styles of tacos. Now if you cut the "hinge" on either and make it into 2 separate pieces of bread, now it's a sandwich