Is a hot dog a sandwich? (chili, country, Maine, difference)
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They serve their hamburger between two slices of toasted white bread. Is that the only hamburger in the US that is a sandwich? Or is it the only one that is not a hamburger?
In general terms, a sandwich consists of something (meat, cheese, PBJ) between two slices of bread. If Louis's Lunch puts hamburger meat between two slices of bread and calls it a hamburger, good for them, but what they've really got there is a hamburger that's made with bread.
We can engage in fun stuff like this all day:
Is an airplane a car? I never fly it but only taxi it back and forth.
Is a helicopter a boat? Mine has pontoons and floats on water.
Is a spoon a knife? I spread butter with a spoon.
If you ask the waitress at some restaurant (not Louis's Lunch) if they serve hot sandwiches, what will she say? Yes or no, probably. Do you think she is including "hamburgers" among "hot sandwiches"?
A ROLL is still "bread"; sandwiches are made on all kinds of bread today. It needn't be the little uniform squares that come in a loaf. But they must be TWO SEPARATE pieces of (whatever) bread to qualify as a sandwich.
So all those sandwiches I bought at the deli all those years were not really sandwiches because they were on one single roll.
I think "sandwich" is just an appendage some advertisers put on sub, submarine, grinder, hero, poor boy, hoagie, or whatever it's called in various regions to ensure that people know it's a "sandwich" -- sort of.
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