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."
I hear they put ketchup on hot dogs in San Francisco.
You just had to go there, didn’t you?
Well I’ve got news for them, hamburger buns are joined on the side too, when you first pull them out of the package and if you’re careful enough you can toast them that way.
So, is a hamburger a sandwich, lol?
It’s probably the only place you can get a veggie hot dog.
Of course it’s a sandwich and hot dogs are sandwiches too. The definition people are working off of is wrong. It doesn’t have to be two pieces of bread, and it doesn’t have to even be meat in between bread. For example, we have open-faced sandwiches that are clearly recognized as sandwiches, and only have one piece of bread. We also have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, that have no meat, but are also recognized as sandwiches.
So a sandwich seems to be just any kind of food that could be eaten on its own, but happens to be using bread for a handy container.
So is Stromboli a sandwich, then?
How about a hoagie? Or a cheesesteak?
Some people put ketchup on a hot dog. My wife, for one.
” my version of a hot dog is a wurst burrito.”
Any burrito with a freakin’ hot dog in it would be the worst burrito.
Pretty sure a Stromboli is a musical instrument.
OH wait, a Stromboli is a machine used to scrape a ice rink.
A hot dog is a hot dog.
Stromboli is a volcano.
Mount Stromboli?
It takes some pretty stupid people to live on the side of an active volcano...oh wait...its Italian... :)
If it ever lets go in a big way, their grandchildren will NOT be born there.
Most places are in danger of some form of natural disaster.
Just some levity my FRiend...though to your last comment...some places more so than others. :)
Personally, I pay the additional tax to not live in a flood plain, toxic waste zones, on a fault line, or on an active volcano. Its worth it to me. :)
Thank goodness they actually spend their energies on something important rather than math or grammar.
No, a stromboli would be a pastry, because the food is baked into the bread in that case. I guess we would have to qualify that in a sandwich, the bread is an post hoc container for the filling, not something that the filling is added to before the bread is baked.
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