W10: A sandwich is a sandwich by any other name.

When I think about what a sandwich really is I think about a story I read on one of the web sites that I frequent. Kevin Butler, a persona for Sony's Playstation 3, talked about a "Monte Cristo" which is an entire ham, turkey, and swiss sandwich dipped in French Toast batter and deep fried. He then goes on to talk about how his favorite sandwich is a double bacon cheeseburger with two Monte Cristo Sandwiches as the bun. It's Frankenstein creation of epic proportions, but it's something that I would only eat for monetary compensation. However, it does get me thinking about what a sandwich really is. I've never really considered a hamburger to be a sandwich before. The more that I think about it though, the more it makes sense that these types of things could be considered a sandwich. Even take the word, sandwich. It means to take two things and put something in between them. Under this criteria, a hamburger would qualify as a sandwich. A quesadilla would also be considered a sandwich under this definition because there are two tortillas sandwiching cheese and whatever else is inside. I even think that a hot dog could possibly be considered a sandwich. Some people might get tripped up by the fact that the bun is connected, but a lot of sub shops serve their sandwiches with the bun not fully cut. The only true objection I have to that list is a crepe. I don't really think a crepe counts as a sandwich because of the fact that is folded around its contents. Therefore it is what we would considered a wrap, which some of the time contains what is normally held inside of a sandwich. It's one of those things like where a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't a square.