• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    A hotdog is not a sandwich.

    If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich.

    But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog.

    QED.

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      21 hours ago

      In German, that would be a just a sausage

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        21 hours ago

        Do you have a term like “hotdog” for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? 😁

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          19 hours ago

          nah in this case it’s just sausage on its own - i know, boring 😄 people only refer to it as hotdog only if it’s in a bun