No, a hot dog is not a sandwich. (Just ask Twitter.)
Please weigh in on this wildly important topic:
— elizabeth (@elizabethkozup) July 20, 2017
Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? ?
OK, it technically has two slices of bread with a meat in the middle. But the placement of the meat, as we all know, matters.
A sandwich has bread on top and bottom, with the faces parallel to the ground. A hot dog doesn’t. This isn’t hard.
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) July 20, 2017
Not everyone agrees with this common logic.
Today is #NationalHotDogDay ,so be please be advised: 1) A Hot dog IS a sandwich 2) It is NOT illegal to put ketchup on one. 3) It should be
— Philadelphia Police (@PhillyPolice) July 19, 2017
But now, a newspaper is here with an official style guide correction to drop a mic on this whole debate. According to Refinery29 , the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal has issued a correction for all the times it referred to a hot dog as a sandwich. The corrections date all the way back to 1887. (Who knew hot dogs even existed back then?) That's over a hundred years of evidence for the "hot dog as sandwich" team, all disbanded in one fell swoop.