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[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

A hotdog is not a sandwich.

If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich.

But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog.

QED.

[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

In German, that would be a just a sausage

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Do you have a term like โ€œhotdogโ€ for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? ๐Ÿ˜

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The best German word is backfeifengezicht. It means: "a face in need of a slap/punch"

[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

nah in this case it's just sausage on its own - i know, boring ๐Ÿ˜„ people only refer to it as hotdog only if it's in a bun

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And using that same reasoning, a hotdog on a bun is a sandwich.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I would be inclined to agree with, โ€œa hotdog on a bun is a sandwich.โ€

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