I'm a sandwich racist. Bread has to be white. I will tolerate 50/50 but it has to have the flavour of white. If it's free or incredibly cheap, I will go brown.
Edit: It's down to medical reasons really, brown bread causes havoc with my bowels as I have quite bad IBS!
There's a reason why hot dogs, burgers, rolls, wraps, baguettes etc. all have different names - because they aren't sandwiches. There is nothing wrong with these foods, I love a chip butty, or hot dog as much as the next person, but that doesn't make it right to describe them as sandwiches!
In fact I don't think the "structure purist" goes far enough - a sandwich is filling between slices of bread, not between two pieces of "baked product". Stick ham in between two bits of bread and you have a ham sandwich, stick it inside a roll/bun and you have a ham roll/bun.
I'm a true neutral but I wouldn't call a hot dog a sandwich. While it is in the form of a sandwich it's established itself as its own thing, same with burgers. It's like comparing a shed and a house, they can both have four walls and a roof but they aren't the same thing.
captain red dog wrote:I'm a sandwich racist. Bread has to be white. I will tolerate 50/50 but it has to have the flavour of white. If it's free or incredibly cheap, I will go brown.
Edit: It's down to medical reasons really, brown bread causes havoc with my bowels as I have quite bad IBS!
I'm kinda the opposite of this also for medical reasons. I almost have to eat wholemeal bread.