It's official. Thanks to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council (NHDSC), all of our hearts and minds can be put to rest. That’s right, everyone, you can stop all your heated debates, and you can finally sleep at night, because now we all know for sure that a hot dog is not – I repeat, NOT – a sandwich.
PHEW! I don’t know about you, but this is an incredible relief for me.
It turns out that while a hot dog, like a sandwich, is placed in between two slices of bread and smothered in condiments, it is simply far more superior to a sandwich. The ruling was based off of the obvious historical impact this delicacy has had on our nation, as well as the fact that a hot dog bun has an “opening” that exposes the contents.
The president of the NHDSC, Janet Riley (or if you prefer her other title “the Queen of Wein”), said that the time has passed for the hot dog to be something as unimportant or mundane as a sandwich. The council felt as though the hot dog would be limited by placing it in such a strict category. This food has had an incredible impact on American history, after all! It is an “exclamation of joy, a food, a verb describing one ‘showing off’, and even an emoji. It is truly a category unto it’s own.” This was a quote from the council.
It is quite obvious that there is much passion in this issue. There is so much so that the members of the council, the Queen of Wein herself to be precise, actually equated the hot dog (a glorious food nonetheless) to the great Dalai Lama. She said, “Limiting the hot dog’s significance by saying ‘it’s just a sandwich’ is like calling the Dalai Lama ‘just a guy.’” She did, however, clear the air between the two food categories; she truly did not mean to offend any sandwiches or sandwich lovers, for that matter.
