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
- I just questioned this elsewhere and am in full agreement. Should be a pie.
- 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 🤔
- 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.

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

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

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.

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.

A Big Mac is a cake.

https://cuberule.com/

Lasagne is cake?

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...

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

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.

Big Macs are cakes.
- Meat cakes?

At no point is pie taken into account here
- Pie is quiche
  
  I'll fuckin stab you
  
  No, quiche is pie. Big difference.
  
  Or a calzone, depending on the pie

https://cuberule.com/

A bigmac is a cake

A Big Mac is a cake?
- Near enough
- It's a club sandwich

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

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/

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

No it is more strictly a cake

So a burrito is a calzone?
- Until you bite it, then it becomes a quiche.

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.

Am I sushi?
- Happy little sushi roll ;)

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.

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.

Bread bowl salads are quiches?
- Bread bowl salads are monstrosities. Also, quiches.

If a hot dog wore pants...

A pierogi is a calzone then I guess

No no no, Hot Dog is a Quiche where I live
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- Looks like sushi

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

Hoagies are sushi, then?
- Pigs in a blanket too

Quiche is pie. Not all pies are quiche
- if they have lids they are calzones

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.