Sandwiches, cont.

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  1. I won’t concede the point until the Supreme Court decides. Standing, however, might be an issue.Report

    • Chris in reply to Pierre Corneille says:

      I have no legal training, but I’m willing to submit a brief, or whatever it is third parties submit, arguing that a burrito is a sandwich and that anyone who says differently is a breadist.Report

      • aaron david in reply to Chris says:

        I think it is called “friend of the cutting board.”Report

      • Glyph in reply to Chris says:

        Patrick claims that a “sandwich” must be of Anglo descent.

        If I may paraphrase his argument to show its absurdity:

        God intended for a sandwich to be “meat & bread”, not “meat & breaduardo!”

        😉Report

        • Patrick in reply to Glyph says:

          Dude, it’s not about Anglocentrism, the exact opposite in fact.

          Here, let me show you why it’s absurd to consider a burrito a sandwich.

          Pedro: “I’m going to write a post about the right way to build a burrito.”
          Jesus: “Just a burrito? Why not all lunchables that are encased in breads?”
          Pedro: “Well, a sandwich is just a burrito with two tortillas instead of one, and no wrap.”
          Jesus: “What about a stuffed pita?”
          Pedro: “Yeah, that’s a burrito, too.”
          Jesus: “So basically everything is a burrito? A hot dog is a burrito? A taco? A Gyro?”
          Pedro: “Yeah, they’re all burritos”
          Frank: “You two guys are fucking crazy. A fucking taco isn’t a fucking burrito, and a fucking hot dog ain’t no fucking burrito. Now shut the fuck up or I’m going to shoot the both of you.”

          If you say a sandwich = {all things which include a bread product, a meat and/or cheese and/or spread product, and optional condiments} the definition of sandwich is absurdly broad.Report

  2. Mo says:

    If a hot dog is a sandwich, is a corn dog?Report

  3. Michael Cain says:

    I’m rather fond of corned-beef-on-tortilla, built as follows. Lay a large flour tortilla out flat. Coat with a thin layer of mustard. Add a layer of thinly sliced corned beef, covering the whole thing, not too thick. Then a layer of leaf lettuce (or whatever other leafy green stuff is at hand). Start from one edge and roll loosely, the final product should be about the same diameter as the cardboard tube in a roll of paper towels. You can handle it with one hand and every bite has the proper mix of the ingredients. I don’t care what the court says, it’s a sandwich.Report

  4. Burt Likko says:

    This what you get when you rely on a Federal court for these sorts of definitions:

    Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert. Nix v. Hedden(1893) 149 U.S. 304, 307 .

    Thus, we know that a tomato is a vegetable rather than a fruit because Justice Horace Gray wouldn’t eat a tomato for dessert.

    In my opinion, Judge Locke correctly applied the Nix rule: a burrito is not a sandwich because while Justice Gray might eat a burrito for lunch instead of a sandwich, he would not have understood himself to be eating a sandwich but rather something different than a sandwich.

    Which is coincidentally lucky for the inexact descriptor, because as it happens, a burrito cannot be a sandwich. A burrito has only one component that is bread-like; there is only one tortilla with stuff inside of it, rather than two tortillas with stuff placed in between them.Report

  5. Miss Mary says:

    Is a sombrero a hat? Same thing, different culture. The question is are they equal in value?Report

    • Patrick in reply to Miss Mary says:

      Sure, a sombrero is a hat.

      Somebody who’d never seen one before might say, “Hey, look at that dude wearin’ that funny-lookin’ hat!”

      Somebody who’d never seen a burrito before would not say, “Hey, look at that dude eatin’ that funny lookin’ sandwich!”Report

  6. Mike Schilling says:

    A burrito is an unsafe sandwich, because it has no condiments.Report

    • BlaiseP in reply to Mike Schilling says:

      You are a gringo heathen. A burrito is munched upon, exposing the goodies within that wrapper. Once exposed, they can be condimented, say, with a nice shake of Cholula hot sauce. Nibble off an inch, repeat as needed.Report

      • Glyph in reply to BlaiseP says:

        It may be unsafe at some of the places near me, but that’s due more to cleanliness issues at the establishments. There’s one place that we refer to as “El Burrito Del Muerte”.Report

        • BlaiseP in reply to Glyph says:

          So stipulated. Yet in the Third World, the unsafest places to eat are the Fancy Restaurants, where the slovenly cooks put things back in the refrigerators/charnel houses. To eat safely down there, follow the very poorest people around: watch where they eat. Often as not it’s some little food wagon, where you can obtain fresh food, piping hot.Report

    • Andrew in reply to Mike Schilling says:

      What kind of fool would have a burrito without condiments?

      And on a completely different topic, if you consider yourself a fan of burritos, why the hell would you want a Chipotle near your house? Down with mass-market, corporate burritos…Report