Is a hot dog a sandwich?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

A chicken sandwich (served on a burger bun) does not cut into a rectangular cross-section. It would be dome shaped. Neither would a sub sandwich. Neither would a burger for that matter, and a burger falls into the sandwich family

Oh come on, I'm not including the bread. I'm only talking about the meat and toppings. Obviously if you use a piece of bread which is rounded the overall cross section won't be rectangular, but the meat will be approximately.

A) The rectangular cross-section of the ingredients inside a sandwich without including the bread, something that every seems to feel is an integral aspect to the sandwich, seems incredibly strange. It's the first time I've heard this argued as a defining characteristic of a sandwich. I don't think it's a very good one. Because

B) There are plenty of sandwiches that wouldn't have a rectangular cross-section when only focused on ingredients. And

C) There are some sandwiches (subs) that without the bread, their ingredients would have a roughly rectangular cross-section.

D) It doesn't seem to fall into any other person's definition.