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"Sandwich" to me is a very narrow definition.
- When you go to the sandwich isle of Tesco for a meal deal, you expect things like BLT, tuna mayo, cheese triple. You don't expect there to be a roll, a burger, a taco, a baguette, or a hot dog. Those will be in their own section.
- When you go to Split airport in Croatia, and they close the majority of shops at night time with only one stall left open, all they advertise they are selling is "sandwiches". And they only 2 options: chicken, or cheese.
- When there's an announcement on a GWR train saying the cart is coming through selling "sandwiches, crisps, soft drinks, tea and coffee", I'm not expecting them to have a hot dog.
- When I look at a local indie artisan coffee shop brunch menu, and look under the section for sandwiches, hot dog isn't under there, hot dog is in its own section, if at all.
- If you go on Family Fortunes, and you're asked to name sandwiches from a survey of 100 people, the top result is probably BLT.
- If you look for emojis of sandwiches, none of them are hot dogs.
Sandwich has a specific structure, and there is an expected, small subset of predictable sandwiches.
Not a sandwich:
- Chip butty, despite having the structure of a sandwich, has its own name, and does not fall into the category of predictable sandwiches.
- Ice cream sandwich throws a spanner to this: it's not a predictable sandwich, so it's not a type of sandwich, but, it does borrow the sandwich only by name and structure.
- A sub, wrap, or burrito might appear in a certain subsection of the Tesco meal deal area next to sandwiches, but because they have a different structure and their own name, they aren't sandwiches - even if they have predictable fillings.
When we say sandwich without context, we mean a subset with predictable structure and fillings.
