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[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

Made this months ago ~~for~~ because of @[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh, it's a taco alright!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

I get the whole “cube rule” thing, but a taco is FOLDED and a hot dog bun is CUT.

Mechanically these are very different required preparation steps.

Further, tacos use fried tortillas which are technically cake.

Hot dogs are not tacos. If you fry a cake, fold it, abc add toppings then that is a taco. When you cut into a bun and add toppings, that’s a sub. Hot dogs are subs, not tacos.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Gonna need an explanation on the tortillas. Wikipedia says flatbread.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Tortillas are pancakes

The word tortilla is derived from the Spanish word torta, meaning roughly 'cake' or 'pie', plus the diminutive suffix -illa; therefore tortilla can be translated as 'little cake'.

If flatbread then maybe tacos are pizza.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

What’s wild is that tortillas are so varied, Mexicans eat very thin yellow corn, Central Americans like white corn and make them thick, and South Americans just go full anarchy and make em extra fat and call them arepas.

Im partial to the Central American think ones, and if you fill em with cheese and meat you got pupusas

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

While I appreciate the topological approach, I hold to a linguistic and practical reason for a hot dog, as it is usually eaten, not (typically) being a sandwich:

  1. what does it mean for a thing to be "sandwiched"? It means pressed on two sides, held together by the force of that pressure.
  2. what is the difference between a hot dog and a hero/po-boy/sub? Well, heros and po-boys are held together by the bread. You can turn them on their side, and they should not fall apart, because the primary force holding them together is pressure on either side of the bread. Hot dogs, at least in my limited experience, are defined by their toppings, which are placed atop the frankfurter, and held in place by gravity alone.

As such I give my typology: if the primary force holding your dish together is pressure on two sides from a retaining material? Sandwich. If the primary force holding it together is gravity? That bread is being used as a trencher. As such, most hot dogs, most tacos, bread bowls and other such things are all basically just a version of a bread bowl or bread plate. For this reason, I call them "Trenchers". Pizza is not primarily held together by gravity or by sandwiching forces, and thus is normally neither of these. Pizza's primary force maintaining its integrity is the cheese and other sticky things holding onto any toppings. As such, pizza would be equivalent to toast with spread, cheese, and other toppings, similar to garlic bread. All functionally just "adorned breads".

So, to reiterate, I don't disagree that hot dogs can be sandwiches, but in general practice, I do not believe they qualify, much like most tacos do not qualify.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

tacos use fried tortillas which are technically cake.

Absurd claim

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

What is a pupusa? Is it a sandwich? But it’s tortilla so is it a taco? A quesadilla? A flavoured fat tortilla? Is it a dorito?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

it's delicious as fuck that's what it is next caller please

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I believe that is a calzone.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's a pupusa. There's already a word for it, why do we need to give it another?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

So we can fill out the phrase all pupusas are ___ but not all ____ are pupusas

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

it is a griddle cake with a filling

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Well what is a sandwich? According to marriage webster:

two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between

Well damn, that sounds like a hotdog!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well damn that sounds like a taco!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

So a soup with noodles is nachos but a soup without noodles is a salad.

What is the definition of noodles in this scenario?

Is a Potato soup a salad and a Gnocchi soup Nachos?

Is it the adding of carbs in general or is it specifically noodles?

What about wild rice soup? Wild rice is a seed. So is it a Salad or a Nacho?

Also, why is a Turducken a salad? Prepared correctly its a sushi or even a calzone.

Also also the cube itself, does it have to be a carb outer layer? Pigs in a blanket are considered a sushi but what of smoked sausages wrapped in bacon?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Counter arguments, a hotdog is a sausage, the bread is a condament. When you buy hotdogs at the store you're taking about the pack, when you're cooking a hotdog, you're taking about the sausage being cooked. A hotdog on the grill is not in the bun. When you're eating a hotdog without a bun, you're still eating a hotdog.

In the other direction, a hotdog with mustard is still called a hotdog meaning the mustard has no say in the state of the hotdog.

Furthermore, we have splitlink sandwiches so a sausage as sandwich still needs the sandwich modifier. When I say "hotdog sandwich" it's bothersome because it conjures the idea of hot dogs between two slices of bread.

So if a hotdog is a hotdog with or without the bread, and a hotdog is a hotdog with or without the mustard, than the bread plays the same role and becomes a condament for the eating of a hotdog that belongs firmly in the category of sausage.

Spare points to back this up is taco, chicken taco, fish taco, street taco, all need the modifier "taco". If I say we're having fish and serve a tuna taco, I've not given you the accurate information. The same goes for wraps, without the "wrap" modifier you get different information. In reverse, we do not ask for a bun to get a hotdog. Following along that line, we have split bun sandwiches which use a bun and are not explicitly hotdogs.

Lastly, with this information you can order the incredibly cursed, split link split bun sandwich with mustard which presents as a cut hotdog with mustard but is in fact an entirely different thing all together.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I will fight you on this.

A hotdog is a specific type of soft sausage inside a bun. If you have just the sausage part you would not call that a hotdog (at least not where I live) but a frankfurter (we have a special word for this type of sausage).

The bread needs to be a certain shape as well. Long round and thin. Either one where it goes in from the top (sliced by length)

like this or pushed in the same way as the longer axis of bread goes like this

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If you put it inside two slices of bread you made a frankfurter sandwich. So thus it needs to be the right sausage in the right bread to be considered a hotdog.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I am sorry but I simply cannot accept food categorization advice from someone who classifies bread as a condiment. Please, educate yourself about what a condiment actually is: https://www.hilobrow.com/2010/09/07/de-condimentis-1/

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I will often take two hotdogs, cut them in half longitudinally, and lay those out on two pieces sandwich bread.

Ergo...hotdog sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yes my fat ass has done this and added cheese, making it a cheese dog sandwich

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You get two hotdogs in the time it usually takes to eat one. It's called efficiency, my friend. We're visionairies.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Well im gonna really embarrass my young fatter self, when I was a kid i used to add a third slice of bread and make a double stack sandwich. Why would my parents allow this?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Taco

a Mexican dish consisting of a fried tortilla, typically folded, filled with various mixtures, such as seasoned meat, beans, lettuce, and tomatoes.

Google dictionary

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