Posted on 03/28/2018 7:27:25 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
If you ever wondered what it was like to teach in a high school in the bay area, a high school English teacher gives us a precious glimpse of what it is like in a blog on Quillette.
"Last year, at my high school, the students enjoyed arguing if a hotdog is a sandwich, the millennial equivalent of asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin," S. A. Dance writes. "The hotdog question made its way to the whiteboard in our staff lounge."
"By the time I arrived, my colleagues had written their responses. Some argued that a hot dog is not a sandwich because a sandwich requires two pieces of bread and a hotdog bun isn'’t supposed to separate. Others averred that it most definitely is a sandwich: Meat between bread is a sandwich, end of story."
"I saw these responses and thought, 'Simpletons!' before putting my graduate education to work: 'In order to determine if a "hotdog is a sandwich," we must first determine the proper understanding of "is" for if we do not grasp the ontological necessity of being itself, we fall into an abyss wherein "being" is and is not itself and thus a hotdog is and is not a sandwich for it is and is not its very self.' I was quite amused by the whole situation until a colleague told me that a student had seen the whiteboard and said he wanted to study philosophy so that he could write like me."
They are great! Half the time the buns are stale the tortilla is never stale. Think I’ll make some for dinner.
I know this is blasphemy but over the years I’ve preferred the chicken dog even. I guess beef hot dogs and/or pork and beef hot dogs Etc... have hit me as rather greasy. I know, I know. it’s just a GERD thing...
...if it keeps you’re fingers from getting yokie....sammich
Well, it may be or may not be...
When cut up and baked in the beans, it’s not a sandwich. Unless you make it a nice, drippy one!
“They scare easily, but they’ll be back, and in bigger numbers.”
This defines the left!
What were the writers/drawers thinking? Whole carrots, an entire fish including head and tail, a whole lobster, noodles among other treats? But no steak? An incomplete sandwich!
“You just had to go there, didn’t you?”
Rooooollll another one, just like the other one.
Hold the ketchup. Yellow mustard is where it’s at.
And with MLB openers starting Friday. I have to go there!
A classic hot dog genetically is a hybrid sandwich. That is, over time the sandwich has been genetically modified to adapt to a new and different series of meats, cheese, and condiments best served in a long thin sliced roll.
Of course the academics, especially the language academcs having no science can’t grasp the concept of the evolution of a non living object
Dead? Or just “pining for the fjords”?
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