Click yes if it is a sandwich,
Click no if it is not,
Comment to try to convince me of the answer!
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People that say hotdogs are sandwiches are making the same mistake as "tomatoes are a fruit" people are making. If you are talking about botany, then yes, the tomato is the fruiting part of the tomato plant, the same way a cucumber is the fruiting part of a cucumber plant. But when speaking in the context of FOOD, tomatoes and cucumbers are considered vegetables.
The fact is, if someone asks for a sandwich and you hand them a hot dog they will be confused, because that's not what they asked for. Therefore, hot dogs and sandwiches are different things, because that's how language works. Sandwich is not a scientific classification. Words mean what words are used to mean.
@Tumbles "Common use" is a pretty bad standard for answering this question. Obviously, the first thing somebody thinks of when a sandwich is mentioned is not a hotdog. What the question is asking about is semantics.
You're right about the distinction between scientific classifications and common use definitions, in the context of the tomato and cucumber analogy. However, that's a reason hotdogs are a type of sandwich, not the other way around. It's because words can take on additional meanings that a hotdog can be defined as a type of sandwich.
@JeffreyLiu Semantics are defined according to common use. Descriptively, that's how language works
@Tumbles Interesting, the definition of a word, object, and said object's associated words is inherently linked to the object's use in daily life
@JeffreyLiu adding to this idea, about how a hotdog is not a sandwich, but a form in which the idea of sandwich can take place, when one asks for a "sandwich" they could get any combination of sandwich like foods... after all there are many many many many types of sandwiches!