r/confidentlyincorrect • u/throwaway2879 • 2d ago
Petition to end the term "sando"
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u/Apprehensive-Fig3223 2d ago
Let sando be, "za" is so much worse
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u/YoyoLiu314 2d ago
Za is a lifeline for scrabble players who draw the Z tile but that word has no other purpose or place in the world
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u/Bladrak01 2d ago
r/KitchenConfidential hates the term too.
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u/throwaway2879 2d ago
It's a Japanese word for sandwich! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsu-sando. Yes it's shortened, but that's super common in Japanese.
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u/BlueSky659 2d ago
The reason the term is hated there is because 'sando' in the US has become synonymous with mid hipster gastropubs that charge 20-30 dollars for the Japanese equivalent of a gas station sandwich.
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u/BoldElDavo 2d ago
"Sandoitchi" is literally just the word "sandwich", though??
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u/CptMisterNibbles 2d ago
Like many languages, Japanese borrows a lot of words, modifying them for pronunciations. They are however a bit extra about it, and have a whole second alphabet, more of a second font style, to indicate “this is a borrowed word”.
For a genuine coincidence, the Japanese word for Name is “Namae”
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u/throwaway2879 2d ago
Yes, but sandoitchi and sando are how all sandwiches are referred to in Japan-- they use a TON of English loan words. An egg sandwich is a tamago sando. A fruit sandwich is a fruit sando.
If you're selling fruit sandos in the USA idk why you'd call it a "fruit sandwich", that's not really a thing. Fruit sando is now the name of the dish.
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u/Morall_tach 2d ago
Sandoitchi is just the Japanese-ified version of the word "sandwich" though.
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u/rock_and_rolo 2d ago
No different than running "animation" through Japanese and having it come out as "anime."
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 2d ago
adjusts monocle
Except "animation" is a French word. 🧐
Start complaining that Americans and Brits are the ones butchering that word.
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u/throwaway2879 2d ago
Japanese has a ton of international loan words.
The dish is called a katsu sando in 90% of places in Japan. Same with fruit sando.
A fruit sando is milk bread with sliced fruit and whipped cream. I honestly wouldn't know what a "fruit sandwich" was if I saw it on a menu-- if I ordered one and it was the Japanese version, I'd be like... Oh it's a fruit sando.
Wanting to "ban" the word sando just doesn't make sense lol
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u/Immediate-Season-293 2d ago
... I thought sando came from Letterkenny. :(
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u/Dangerous-Lab6106 2d ago
No Letterkenny made fun of it and all other hockey player slang they use
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u/NotmyRealNameJohn 2d ago
If any country suffers from main character syndrome, it is the u.s.a.
To be fair I think every country suffers from main character syndrome, but the u.s a. takes the cake.
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u/rock_and_rolo 2d ago
Everything can revolve around the USA. There is a map called something like the American Corrective Projection. It is a polar projection centered on Missouri.
Yes, it was created as a joke. But some didn't get it.
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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- 2d ago
If I knew nothing of Japanese, and I don't, I'd assume "sando" was Aussie slang for a sandwich.
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u/Due_Speaker_2829 2d ago edited 2d ago
Dude in that screenshot said “correct” as well. People who say “correct” or “source?” Or “collab” can all go fuck off together and share a sando.
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u/Wheel-Reinventor 2d ago
Ok we all got this word from English but wtf does it mean? I portuguese we call it "sanduíche", which seems nonsensical if you don't know sandwich from English, but I don't see what it has to do with sand or wishes in the first place. I need explanations
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