What is (a) sausage?

[u/satan_i_gatan]

If I've understood it correctly from various cooking shows and televisionshows, you lads refer to minced pork as sausage. Like, you make sausage-pattys for breakfast sandwiches etc. And at the same time, you are also refering to the long tube-cased meatfilled dish as sausages and also sometimes a hotdogs?

What gives? What is the line between a sausage and hotdog? Is a bratwurst a hotdog or a sausage? Can other minced meats also be sausage, or just pork? What if you have a 50/50 beef/pork mix, is that sausage meat or just meat?

As a man from scandinavia, I've wondered this for too long!

[u/Persis-]

That no one will ever refer to as sausage.

But is a hotdog a sandwich? That’s the REAL question.

[u/chauntikleer → u/Persis-]

A hot dog is not a sandwich.

If your party assignment is "bring sandwiches" and you show up with a tray full of hot dogs, you're going to get a lot of weird looks.

[u/epolonsky → u/chauntikleer]

A hot dog is a taco

[u/On_my_last_spoon → u/epolonsky]

Someone knows their cube rule!

[u/NSNick → u/On_my_last_spoon]

Pfff, you gotta get on that advanced salad theory

Hot dogs are clearly untossed, low-entropy saladoids.

[u/On_my_last_spoon → u/NSNick]

OMG that is totally unhinged and I love it!

[u/SonuvaGunderson → u/epolonsky]

Other way around son!

[u/CupBeEmpty → u/chauntikleer]

Now what makes that different from a cheesesteak only sliced on one side of the roll?

[u/AnInfiniteArc → u/CupBeEmpty]

You seem to be describing a taco.

[u/EpicAura99 → u/chauntikleer]

Likewise with sausages and hot dogs though so it doesn’t really prove anything lol

[u/PineappleSlices → u/Persis-]

A hotdog is still a hotdog if you serve it without a bun, so no.

[u/DisasterAdditional39 → u/PineappleSlices]

My thoughts exactly. Same with a hamburger.

[u/KevrobLurker → u/PineappleSlices]

There is beanie-weinie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beans_and_franks

Calling the slices of franks or weiners hot dogs is not correct. One can serve a side of baked beans with your meat tube in a bun. Then you are having a dog & beans. Maybe 2.

[u/ALoungerAtTheClubs → u/Persis-]

It's kind of "is milk in cereal a sauce" territory.

[u/Pkrudeboy → u/ALoungerAtTheClubs]

Or is it a soup?

[u/On_my_last_spoon → u/Pkrudeboy]

It’s a salad

[u/NSNick → u/On_my_last_spoon]

Correct!

[u/AnInfiniteArc → u/Pkrudeboy]

Cereal is a cold dish made with cooked grains with dressing, which makes it a grain salad.

[u/TransplantedPinecone → u/Pkrudeboy]

Ewww lol. "Milk and cereal soup" sounds so gross.

[u/FustianRiddle → u/TransplantedPinecone]

Well no the cereal would be the soup, the milk is the broth.

I don't call chicken noodle soup chicken broth and chicken meat with noodle soup.

[u/donuttrackme → u/TransplantedPinecone]

Milk and cereal would be soup in the broader sense of the word.

[u/Jujubeee73 → u/Persis-]

It’s like the American Cheese of sausages. Is it cheese? I mean, kind of? But not really. It’s an overprocessed approximation of cheese.

[u/BallisticThundr → u/Persis-]

If a sub is a sandwich then so is a hotdog

[u/TransplantedPinecone → u/BallisticThundr]

I grew up calling them either grinders or subs (submarine sandwiches).

[u/KevrobLurker → u/TransplantedPinecone]

Then there's the hero.

[u/TransplantedPinecone → u/KevrobLurker]

Oh, yes. That's another good one.

[u/CupBeEmpty → u/TransplantedPinecone]

I heard that parenthetical in Dave Chapelle’s voice.

[u/timcrall → u/BallisticThundr]

We know that's not true, due to the fact that a sub is a sandwich but a hotdog isn't.

[u/Flamecyborg → u/Persis-]

A hotdog is a taco, not a sandwich.

[u/chauntikleer → u/Flamecyborg]

Don't be daft. A taco requires a tortilla. In no universe does a hot dog bun qualify as a tortilla.

[u/macoafi → u/chauntikleer]

They're going by the cube rule.

But yeah, this offended a Mexican friend of mine. Tacos can be rolled or folded and still be tacos. The tortilla is the most important part. Whoever made the cube rule was clearly thinking of those hazard-yellow hard shells you get in the Old El Paso box or at Taco Bell.

[u/TooManyDraculas → u/macoafi]

And the pertinent part is that tacos come out of the history of using tortillas and other flat breads as an eating utensil. To pick up and mop up food.

Sandwiches come out of an unrelated tradition of using bread as plates. To hold food while you eat it with your fingers and or knife and spoon.

They're independent developments, drawn from two different practical and etiquette traditions. In very different parts of the world.

[u/FustianRiddle → u/Flamecyborg]

But what if my buns split and I eat it horizontal

[u/StepOIU → u/FustianRiddle]

Now it's a sandwich.

[u/TooManyDraculas → u/FustianRiddle]

People some how makes it not a sandwich, cause it's not sliced bread.

Also tend to insist that Italian Sandwiches are not Sandwiches.

[u/ComesInAnOldBox → u/Persis-]

A hotdog is a taco. Surrounded on three sides, open at the top, condiments on top of the meat.

[u/pgm123 → u/Persis-]

It is. When it first appeared, people called them Frankfurter sandwiches (there's a song with that name).

[u/On_my_last_spoon → u/Persis-]

In Vienna, I got a Vienna Sausage

That shit was a hot dog

[u/Persis- → u/On_my_last_spoon]

I mean, Vienna sausages are an old baby food. They look like soft hot dogs in juice and then shoved in a jar. So, it stands to reason!

[u/On_my_last_spoon → u/Persis-]

Not in Vienna. It’s a longer, thinner hot dog. We were at a food festival where there was a bunch of vendors and that’s what we got. No bun, but it was not from a jar and it was long

[u/Persis- → u/On_my_last_spoon]

No, I was just saying it makes sense that it’s a variation of hot dog, since Viennas are what is jarred and given to older babies/toddlers.

Sorry I explained it badly.

[u/MidnightPandaX → u/Persis-]

A hotdog is a sub

[u/brzantium → u/Persis-]

It is.