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minus-squareproblematicPanther@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·9 hours agoIf a hotdog is a sandwich, is the ocean a soup?
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 hours agoA hotdog is not a sandwich. If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich. But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog. QED.
minus-squareben_dover@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 hours agoIn German, that would be a just a sausage
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoDo you have a term like “hotdog” for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? 😁
minus-squareben_dover@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agonah in this case it’s just sausage on its own - i know, boring 😄 people only refer to it as hotdog only if it’s in a bun
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 hours agoThe best German word is backfeifengezicht. It means: “a face in need of a slap/punch”
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 hours agoIt is The Primordial Soup
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoI would like the primordial salad instead
If a hotdog is a sandwich, is the ocean a soup?
A hotdog is a taco.
A hotdog is not a sandwich.
If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich.
But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog.
QED.
In German, that would be a just a sausage
Do you have a term like “hotdog” for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? 😁
nah in this case it’s just sausage on its own - i know, boring 😄 people only refer to it as hotdog only if it’s in a bun
The best German word is backfeifengezicht. It means: “a face in need of a slap/punch”
It is The Primordial Soup
I would like the primordial salad instead