The Takeout: Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Trombone Shorty: Well, I think anything that’s between two pieces of bread, I guess that is a sandwich. I’ve definitely had hot dogs where the bread is separated. That would prompt the question, what is a hot dog?

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TO: That’s an interesting thought. We never thought to invert the question on itself.

TS: You know what, coming from New Orleans, I would say a hot dog is a sandwich. We’ll take a piece of bread and fold around a sandwich meat like turkey. My mom does that all the time. My grandmother too will take the ends of [a roll]—it’s brown on the outside and white inside—and she’ll take a piece a meat and a piece of cheese, and that’s a sandwich. So I guess a hot dog is as well.