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[pmcd9]

Golly! Defining the sandwich is a complicated thing.

I had a donor sandwich thing a couple of weeks ago and tried to make a crack about the Donner party, but it went nowhere.

What about the ice cream sandwich?

[Arachno-capitalist]

http://www.closetcooking.com/2012/01/bacon-guacamole-grilled-cheese-sandwich.html
Good morning.

[wombat]

Inev, you have been in linguistics classes more recently than me. You know that thing they talk about in semantics about word meaning, how categories like this have canonical examples and more peripheral ones, and this is just how word meaning works? Or is that a psycholinguistics thing?  Someone needs to explain that here but this week I am too busy trying to juggle two or three other careers and I don't have time to dig back deep enough to remember how to explain it.

[miles]

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Yeah, but I would feel the same way if someone asked "do you want a sandwich" and brought out a Banh Mi. Because it is a very particular sub-type of sandwich which is not necessarily conjured up by the word "sandwich."

Do you like rock music? Ok, here's some rock music. What? You're surprised that this is what I played you? I guess that means it isn't rock music.

No, I'm not at all surprised you played this, and I don't think anyone else is.

[Victoria Waterfield]

If you ask someone to picture a bird, I guarantee the bird they will be picturing is not an ostrich. But guess what? AN OSTRICH IS STILL A BIRD.

So yes, things on buns are still sandwiches. Also, I feel compelled to point out that no one here has yet gotten their pastrami in a twisty roll about the open-faced sandwich.

[side_show]

http://www.closetcooking.com/2012/01/bacon-guacamole-grilled-cheese-sandwich.html
Good morning.

This sandwich is so pornographic that it's NSFW.  Also:  want.

[jaydub]

This sandwich is so pornographic that it's NSFW.  Also:  want.

QFT.  I'm getting ready to go into the lab, with 3 hours and 15 minutes to lunch - and that's the image to go with me.  Its going to be a long morning.

[nDed]

Also, I feel compelled to point out that no one here has yet gotten their pastrami in a twisty roll about the open-faced sandwich.

I'm leaning towards classifying them with bruschetta and crostini in the food-on-bread category, and not with true sandwiches. "Open-faced sandwich" is just a convenient way to describe something that's not really a sandwich in a sandwich dominated culture.

[side_show]

The open faced sandwich, by name, describes that there is less bread, but that bread is present, so I am comfortable including it as a sandwich.  When I make such a thing though, I call it a melt.  I keep it on the sidelines of sandwich-hood,  I maintain a firm distinction.

Let's be careful here though:  pizza is not a sandwich, even if it's a panzarotti or calzone.

Also, now I'm super conflicted:  I have the day off, and often such days mean I go on a mission to eat the perfect lunch.  I was originally going to drive 30 minutes across town for the best damn Shawarma, but now that sandwich AC posted is messing with me and I'm thinking all sorts of dirty thoughts about melted cheese.

[jay-ell]

Oh! Burgers vs. melts. As in, ground beef with swiss cheese on rye bread (instead of a bun) is known as a patty melt. I would argue that a melt is a type of sandwich, whether it is served open-faced or closed.

Story time: My dad likes to tell about how he would sometimes go to McDonald's with his Polish-born, Catholic grandmother on Fridays, which at the time were meatless for Catholics even outside of Lent.

My great-grandmother would order a cheeseburger, sit down at the table, unwrap it, and then say, "Ach! I always forget that there's meat in these." Then she'd heave a long sigh, consider her options, and say, "Well, it's more of a sin to waste it." And then she'd eat it. With gusto.

Every time.

[wombat]

Let's be careful here though:  pizza is not a sandwich, even if it's a panzarotti or calzone.

This sentence makes no sense. A calzone is not a type of pizza.

FOOD FIGHT

[wombat]

If you ask someone to picture a bird, I guarantee the bird they will be picturing is not an ostrich. But guess what? AN OSTRICH IS STILL A BIRD.

So yes, things on buns are still sandwiches.

This is exactly the point I am trying to get Inev to explain from some old class notes so I don't have to.

[side_show]

This sentence makes no sense. A calzone is not a type of pizza.

FOOD FIGHT

I really know nothing of calzones apart from the fact the store-brand pizza pops at the grocery store I frequent are called calzones and that Wikipedia calls calzones "folded pizza." I've certainly never had an authentic calzone because whenever I go to an authentic Italian restaurant I am a straight-up past whore. 

[Carlos del Vaca]

This is exactly the point I am trying to get Inev to explain from some old class notes so I don't have to.

Yeah, that's my thinking. Technically, a burger is a sandwich. But no one in their right mind CALLS it a sandwich.

[CortJstr]

If I weren't on my way out the door and the search there wasn't so bad I'd find the Basic Instructions comic about open-face sandwiches. Somebody else, look into that until I get back.