• Creddit@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year ago

            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

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                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 🤔

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          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.

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      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!