is a hot dog a sandwich

This classification system is deeply flawed but one of the most obvious ways is failing to recognize that quiche is an arbitrarily over specific example of what its category should ACTUALLY be called, which is obviously PIE.

PIZZA IS PIE TOO. The crust puffing up elevated at the edges contains the ingredients within.

And in this case, a stuffed crust pizza is indeed a PIE SURROUNDED BY A CALZONE.

Alternatively surrounded by a burrito.

Wouldn't stuffed crust be toast surrounded by sushi?
- if you're looking at the whole pizza pie, the crust doesn't have open sides so it's a calzone. if you're looking at a single slice, it's sushi.
- the stuffed crust is prepared as a calzone but becomes sushi once the pizza is sliced.
What's your opinion on thin-crust pizza? Is it toast? I feel like it's toast.
- you know what, yeah actually, i think i agree with that too!
This was my exact assessment. I like how u think
Your comment makes me think that we're missing (at least) one of configurations on the diagram, the one where two bases are perpendicular to each other. A slice of pizza will have that configuration, but I am too culinary-challenged to imagine anything else by that shape to name it after 🤔
I just questioned this elsewhere and am in full agreement. Should be a pie.
which is obviously ~~PIE~~ tart.
- psh, YOU'RE a tart. :p

So a poorly wrapped burrito is sushi but a properly wrapped one is a calzone. th'fuck?

Damnit, someone got to the burrito logic before I did...
And if you start eating a properly wrapped one, it turns into a quiche 🤔
I don’t make the rules.
A taquito is sushi
If you don't like science go live in the woods.
That's how I'm referring to it from now on. I just need to know what I call Arepas.

Language is use, nerds. It ain't a sandwich.

Since bread cannot be attached to language in any orientable way, you are right: It ain't a sandwich, it's a salad!
I would find it a tad odd to refer to a hotdog as simply a sandwich, because we have a more precise and common word for it, but I would understand nonetheless.
Not just because of this debate, but also because when you use the ingredients separately you get weiner sandwiches and hot dog bun sandwiches.
It would be odd to call champagne wine, but still understandable. Same for calling a lava lamp an incandescent light. Actually, this would probably work for lots of genericized tradmarks, like jello, bandaid, dumpster, zamboni, kleenex, zipper, velcro, and so on.
- Well, in the case when a table is empty except for the ~~hotdog~~ sandwich in question, I would maybe understand. But I imagine myself to be quite dumbfounded with such a naming

canoli = sushi

Big Mac = cake
- Lasagne = cake
- The cake is a lie.

A slice of pizza is, indeed, a toast! With a lot of stuff on top.

The crust makes it a pie!!
- The hardened browned crumb of a toast is, essentially, a small crust! That's how pies get it too!
  PIE IS A TOAST!!!
- According to this diagram it makes it a quiche. The definition should be a tart, a quiche is a savoury custard tart.
  That would make the pizza a tart.
  A pie would be a calzone according to this diagram.
- It's a vegetable

I would argue that according to this diagram, stuffed crust is in fact a sushi tube connecting to itself in a circle around the pizza.

Hear me out -
It's a ring torus with a a different substance inside.
It's a filled donut.
- No hole in the middle, filled donut stuck to a toast maybe?
Certainly sushi if it's just a slice

Stuffed crust is actually sushi tho.

only in a single slice. if we're looking at the whole pizza pie, it's a calzone in a circle around a toast.
- I don't believe that a torus is homeomorphic to a cube, so in fact the stuffed crust is not adequately explained by the cube model. We can approximate the stuffed crust by modelling either as sushi or calzone and receive adequate results.
I guess the question is whether or not the exposed sides are integral to sushi or not, and I think they are. It's like the 'how many holes does a straw have' all over again Edit: nevermind they said slice. So yes, definitely sushi. Although the jury is still out on a full stuffed crust pizza, or a jelly filled donut for that matter.

A Big Mac is a cake.

I think stuffed crust is sushi attached to toast

Everyone in this thread ignoring that sushi refers to the style and preparation of the rice. The rolled sushi is maki, literally "to roll."
- Everyone in this thread is ignoring a lot, mostly that vastly different preparation methods van make the same structure, and the same method vastly different structures. Like pasta, which category you get depends on exactly what kind you have.
A stuffed crust pizza would be a calzone only when it's still yet to be cut into slices.
The moment a slice is removed from the whole would be when it becomes sushi.
- The image specifically talks about a slice 🍕
I was thinking the same, but then realized it's probably just quiche.

Lasagne is cake?

https://cuberule.com/

So a Big Mac is cake?

Absolutely

Club sandwich? Actually cake.

Welcome to topology where your mug is a toroid and the orientation matters a lot.

So Subway sells tacos? You learn something new every day.

I feel like taco is too specific and that there is a better word that covers tacos and submarines. I just can’t come up with the word…

An enchilada is sushi?

Yeah that topology is probably better described as burrito
- Burritos are closed on the ends, my Mexican food-challenged amigo.

A single slice of stuffed crust would be a sushi attached to a toast. The ends are open once you cut it into a slice. A FULL stuffed crust would be a calzone and a toast.

Pizza being toast is acceptable to me

Lasagna is cake?

Always has been.

A burrito is a sushi

Not necessarily. A burrito can have one or both ends closed off. So it can also be a quiche or a calzone.
- Does a burrito start as a calzone turn into quiche then finish life as a taco?

So I guess sashimi is a sandwich, but cannoli is sushi. Flawless logic.

Isn't sashimi a salad? Nigiri would be toast. Temaki would be a quiche.

So bread is toast I guess.

And all cake is comprised of at least three toast layers.

The air all around me is salad!! Ahhhhh

I guess the air is a mixed salad of gas molecules...

Big Macs are cakes.

Meat cakes?

So is a burrito a calzone or a quiche?

Depends on if it's entirely folded up or if one end is left open.
If the top of your burrito is open, you should find another taqueria.
No such thing as a convertible burrito.

At no point is pie taken into account here

Pie is quiche
- No, quiche is pie. Big difference.
- I'll fuckin stab you
- Or a calzone, depending on the pie

Sounds like the kind of person who calls pizza "Italian rarebit" lol

https://cuberule.com/

Goddammit. Quit leaving the croutons off my salad. I want to see some floating blue specks in there.

A Big Mac is a cake?

A bigmac is a cake

No it is more strictly a cake

Wouldn’t a slice of stuffed crust pizza be sushi attached to toast as the slicing opens up the ends?

Is a tamale a calzone or sushi?

Calzone until you bite into it. Then it's a quiche. This is a good system and makes a lot of sense.
Probably calzone? I think a taquito might be sushi according to this
- Just the tip?
A calzone, it doesn't really have open ends

A pierogi is a calzone then I guess

So a burrito is a calzone?

Until you bite it, then it becomes a quiche.

If a hot dog wore pants...

Bread bowl salads are quiches?

Bread bowl salads are monstrosities. Also, quiches.

the cube rule identification theory is ridiculous and i have always said so

That's what makes it good
- Yeah, salad theory is more comprehensive https://saladtheory.github.io/

Am I sushi?

Happy little sushi roll ;)

So chips are a salad? I knew it!

Pretty sure chips are toast in this diagram. Or maybe it depends if they are potato or tortilla chips.
- It probably depends on the type chip. If they're the scoops tortilla chips, they would be quiche.

So a jelly donut is a calzone? And I guess a plate of nachos is cake?

Unironically yes
A plate of nachos might be a salad.

If somebody asked you to bring hot dogs and tacos to a party, the host would probably not be just as fine with you bringing only tacos or only hot dogs.

Are you telling me that pop tarts are not in fact ravioli?

Quiche is pie. Not all pies are quiche

if they have lids they are calzones

No no no, Hot Dog is a Quiche where I live

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Looks like sushi

A stuffed crust pizza is only a calzone attached to toast until you cut into it. At that point it becomes sushi attached to toast.

In that comparison, I'd argue that buttered toast is a pizza.

I am always telling people this in the is-a-hotdog-a-sandwich debate, and this diagram makes it abundantly clear:

A hotdog is a taco.

But a taco is just a sandwich???
- Nope! It has bread on three sides, so it's a taco.
  Sandwiches only have bread on two sides.

Is every pie a quiche or is every quiche a pie?

Some pies are calzones.
- Calzones are in the hand pie family along with Cornish pasties and empanadas

Hoagies are sushi, then?

Pigs in a blanket too

Yes. Pizza was always a lie.

Pizza is toast, not cake.

A corn dog is a calzone.

1: this dude doesn't know how calzones are made 2: calzones are sushi

Wouldn't a stuffed crust be sushi? It's a tube, it just connects until you slice the pizza

Humans are Salad.

Unless they are still digesting, than they are often salad with croutons.

Soup, chili, cereal; it's all just salad.

Well this tracks since a dick is just a modified clit

Oops my sushi fell on its side and turned into quiche.

No it didn’t. Quiche is open on one end. Sushi is open on 2.

Sushi is just made with sushi rice. It has literally nothing to do with the shape of the food.

So a Wellington is a sushi or calzone?

A calzone, the ends aren't open. A wellington is usually shown cut but that doesn't change its identification

So... Pie and empanadas are calzone?

A chilli relleno is a quiche

The Structure purist is strong with this one

And now I want calzone attached toast

Or stuffed crust is the sushi of the pizza

Then a calzone is just a big taco

Correction, it is two tacos. One flipped upside down and rotated 90 degrees and placed on top of the other.
- Huh the calzone we made at the pizza shopped I worked at was just a pizza that's folded

What about the Danish French Hotdog? Where does that fit in?

It's a tall quiche

This implies that a steak is a salad.

Pizza has crust walls. Pizza is quiche.

So deep dish pizza is quiche, thin crust is toast?

I'd rename two categories.

Bottom right: I'd rather refer to a cake as "lasagna" than call lasagna a "cake"

Bottom left: if someone made a quiche without walled sides I'd still call it a quiche, so I'd rather call that category "pie"

This has the added bonus of making most pie people furious and some pizza people angry unless they like Chicago deep dish.

Isn’t “lasagna”, as we refer to it, technically a casserole made with layers of lasagne, cheese, and sauce? Not that “casserole” is a category, but I’m just being pedantic at this point, soz
I’ve always maintained that pizza is a tart rather than a pie

are flatbread and pitas toast?

Flatbread yes. Most people I know either stuff their pita or fold it, so that would be a taco?

Imagine people thinking food cam be categorized consistently like that.

Food is cultural and historical; nothing outside of its preparation is scientific or internally logically consistent, so stop trying to force it to be.

A hot dog is a damn hot dog. Now stop arguing about it, and get this crap off of my feed

I will continue to shiptoast, have a day
- The usernames add a whole new layer to this thread. "Pink drunken elephant" having a serious and sober look at the conversation and how stupid it is, and "get off the drugs dude" happily continuing this bizarre and pointless conversation.
Sir this is a meme