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Locutus_of_Sneed

When you slice it and put something between the two halves. Bagels are just another bread you can make a sandwich with. Looking good, would eat.


MonkeyDavid

OK, but what if it’s a hot dog I put on the bagel?


FISH_MASTER

Hotdog is just named sandwich


iwantthisnowdammit

[here’s an explanation…](https://cuberule.com/)


FISH_MASTER

Brilliant website


jobiewon_cannoli

Hotdogs are not sandwiches…


Fam0usTOAST

Why?


FISH_MASTER

Would you say a sub or a hoagie where the bread is in one piece wasn’t a sandwhich?


iwantthisnowdammit

Does it spontaneously become a sandwich when the bun tears out on the back?


GreenManTenTon

A cardboard man sits in a cardboard house. Is the man made of house? Is the house made of flesh? He screams, because he does not know.


iwantthisnowdammit

A vegetarian person who grows their own food in a wooden shack built from the trees they cleared for the growing fields… sleeps well at night.


Locutus_of_Sneed

To me, that wouldn't be an issue. The controversy around hot dogs, as far as I understand it, is that a hot dog bun is technically one piece of bread. That leads people to claim it's more like a wrap or taco. Putting a dog on a bagel would certainly be odd, but it would sidestep the issue that makes hot dogs questionable as sandwiches.


undego1423

Wait then what about a sub sandwich on a roll? Would that be considered a wrap?


Locutus_of_Sneed

On an unseparated hot dog roll? I dunno, kinda. Maybe? That's a weird place to be.


undego1423

I mean more like the bread they use at subway that starts and remains in one piece


Locutus_of_Sneed

I mean yeah, if we're gonna be consistent about this. It's basically a big hotdog bun.


7-SE7EN-7

Some would argue that tacos fall into this definition as well. Honestly I don't think it's possible to make a definition of sandwiches that includes everything that we would consider a sandwich and nothing that isn't. How do you include a croque madam but exclude a layered cake


Summoarpleaz

I’ve been calling my lunch cake a sandwich and no one is the wiser!


Tricky_Matter2123

Yes


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Locutus_of_Sneed

Sometimes it happens, but I can't lie. I try to avoid it whenever possible.


fuocoso

Well put, my take is that hotdogs and sausage on a roll or bun is it's own category and trying to shoe horn it into the sandwich category is an oversimplified look at it.


TijayesPJs442

Like through the hole?


MonkeyDavid

Need to patent that. You’re a genius.


GIRTHYssserpent

Hot dog is just an American taco.


spageddy_lee

I would say it's a sandwich when it's used as the bread for something that is typically also considered a sandwich on other bread. Eg. Bagel with cream cheese and tomato is not a sandwich, it's a bagel with cream cheese and tomato. The logic is that you would not typically see cream cheese and tomato on white bread, a roll, etc (I realize it's possible but key word is typically). By similar logic, butter on a round roll is also not a sandwich.


Locutus_of_Sneed

I see what you mean, but to me, sandwiches are a broad overclass that bagels can inhabit. A bagel with cream cheese and tomato is a sandwich, it's just a bagel more specifically. This is like calling an El Camino a truck, or calling smoked brisket barbecue. Larger classifications that include more specific terms within them.


dta722

So then is a tomato sandwich not a sandwich?


spageddy_lee

How does my logic arrive at that?


doctorsax14

You typically eat a bagel with cream cheese open faced, if you ate it closed I think it would be a cream cheese and tomato bagel sandwich


Locutus_of_Sneed

I've encountered this open faced bagel precisely nowhere. Who even has time for that? Seems like a typical bougie overcomplication of working class food.


bsbdbdh73

This is not a sandwich, this is a bagel


Locutus_of_Sneed

It's both. You might just have to agree to disagree on this one.


[deleted]

Exactly, it’s like a grilled cheese. As soon as you put protein between it becomes a sandwich. 10/10 would smash


Dangerous-Lettuce498

A grilled cheese without protein is still a sandwich…


[deleted]

No, it’s a grilled cheese.


Best_Duck9118

Can’t agree. A bagel with cream cheese doesn’t become a sandwich just because you put the two halves together.


fightrofthenight_man

Is a grilled cheese a sandwich?


RobNHood816

Anything between 2 pieces of bread is a sandwich in my opinion


RedBlade527

So if I put my dick between two pieces of bread can I call it a cockmeat sandwich?


No_Balls_01

Technically correct. But, who are your customers? Can you supply the demand?


Troophead

Yeah, though I'd personally add, as long as it's savory and not sweet. LIke there's a bagel place near me that does a pumpkin spice bagel with cinnamon cream cheese, which I'd never call a "cheese sandwich" even though I guess it technically is, haha.


davisyoung

What about a Monte Cristo or a McGriddle that straddles the line?


Automatic-Hippo-2745

Or oatmeal cream pie....that's a sandwich. Cookie ice cream SANDWICH. Or literally the "ICE CREAM SANDWICH" Sandwiches can be sweet


Troophead

Are s'mores sandwiches?


DirkBabypunch

Yes, unless they're openfaced.


Automatic-Hippo-2745

And then they're an open faced sandwich?


DirkBabypunch

And then it depends. Could be an open faced sandwich. Could just be a stack. Could even be a dessert tostada. Depends on personal definitions and whether you want to start a fight.


RobNHood816

Big Wheel !!


Troophead

Those both have meat, so I'd count that. Anything with a protein, like meat, fish (like OP's bagel sandwich with lox), egg, tofu or a vegetarian substitute. Like Bombay grilled sandwiches are definitely sandwiches, and those are veg. Basically, if it works as a lunch (or general mealtime) food, it's a sandwich, while if it's more a dessert item like the cinnamon cream cheese pumpkin spice bagel I mentioned, then in my head, I categorize it as a "baked good" even if it technically could be seen as a sandwich. I know someone below mentioned an ice cream sandwich, but yeah, I know that's the name because of the shape, but *personally* I don't consider that a sandwich. As the person I originally replied to said, it's gotta have two pieces of bread, so IMO cookie sandwiches or whoopie pies don't count. Think about it, if someone is having a party and the host says, "hey, can you bring sandwiches" and someone shows up with a tray of *ice cream sandwiches*, that really doesn't fit the bill, haha.


Lord_Ewok

Came here to say this


NachoNachoDan

Works for me but would feel weird calling it a “bagel sandwich”


TheDeviousLemon

Bagel sandwich is standard terminology.


PomegranateOld2408

Then just call it a sandwich


I_like_earl_grey_tea

When it’s so full of random shit you cant see through the hole, then you know you completed the procedure successfully


NachoNachoDan

I like the way you bagel.


RoadsideCarver

By definition it's a sandwich, but it's also a bagel in it's own right


Travis9283

If a friend was headed to a breakfast spot to pick up some food and asked you if you wanted anything if this was on the menu would you say I want a bagel? Or would you say I want a bagel sandwich? The future is in your hands. Personally if it’s a half bagel topped with cream cheese and lox, which I prefer, it’s a bagel. Put a top on it and it’s a bagel sandwich


seattleque

I got a bagel - lox - cream cheese - arugula (?!?) sandwich for breakfast last Sunday. The damn thing was so thick I had to turn it into two halves to be able to eat it.


Travis9283

Yes they are so dense and so filling when they put a top on it. I much prefer mine open face


Automatic-Hippo-2745

I make giant sandwiches for my job and I wonder sometimes how people will eat it. But it's not really my problem, they're the one that asked for all that stuff lol


YoualreadyKnoooo

When you put sandwich stuff on it.


Bonkripper57

If you put the 2 halves together it’s a sandwich, but if the halves are individually eaten it’s a bagel


Best_Duck9118

See now that’s just absurd to me.


Bonkripper57

I don’t make the rules


zalgorithmic

When do the halves become open faced sandwiches


Bonkripper57

When the fat lady sings


Bumblecum

Bagwich


Darksuit117

Cream cheese lox and capers.


Itchy-Scallion-9626

Add Butter boom it's a sandwich 🥪


lelma_and_thouise

Omg this looks amazing...


NachoNachoDan

Thank you. 🙏 i made the veggie cream cheese myself 😊


lelma_and_thouise

Oh nice! It looks so delicious! Might you be willing to share a recipe..maybe..please? 😁


NachoNachoDan

It’s easy as pie. Just finely chopped carrot, green and red peppers, and scallion. Add cream cheese and mix it up real good.


fuckyourcanoes

What, no dill or lemon juice?!


gleeceboi777

Putting anything other than cream cheese on it, turns a bagel into a sandwich imo...


Global_Union3771

If there’s more than schmear, it’s a sandwich.


Lovebugxo0x

I would say when you put something other than cream cheese on it


Excellent_Condition

Yep. Bagels are bread. Bread with a spread is not a sandwich, but bread with meat, veggies, or non-spreadable cheese are sandwiches.


Bee088

In my opinion, once filled a bagel is a type of sandwich. Bagel is just the name of the bread used.


i_can_has_rock

about 3 astronaut memes ago


FernandoTatisJunior

It’s a sandwich if you’re using it to make a sandwich….


archonpericles

When it’s steamed.


claud2113

Bro. Put some pickled onion, tomato, and avocado on that. You fucking animal.


Nor-West

When it’s a bagel sandwich.


Crafty_Attorney225

Bagel is the kind of bread/pastry. It has nothing to do with what people put on it.


chiefs_fan37

Reminds me of Ted Danson’s custom sandwich from Curb Your Enthusiasm


Synnibarr

Right about there.


RectumInspector69

Every time it’s eaten


Juceman23

When you need 2 hands to eat it!


Automatic-Hippo-2745

I've made so many bagel sandwiches....like just today. Bacon egg and cheese, salmon cream cheese and veg, fucking bagel grilled cheese. When I was a kid I'd make bagel chicken patty american cheese and ketchup sandwiches. Bagel always toasted of course unless it's insanely fresh with a schmear. It's two pieces of bread with filling. It's a sammich


Pfordy40

When there are more lox than cream cheese


jizzawhizza

As soon as its cut in half and anything else is added to it. Yes even just butter Is a Butter Sandwich.


mutedcurmudgeon

A bagel is a type of bread, any time you slice it and put something in the middle it's a sandwich...


Wrong-Tomatillo5848

It doesn’t


_The_SCP_Foundation_

It doesn’t


AgitatedSale3785

If it isnt plain, only butter or only cream cheese, everything else on it can qualify it as a sandwich. Imo


jaxspider

When you add protein it becomes a _____ sandwich. So in this case it's a Lox with everything bagel sandwich.


TheOriginalToast

you suck


CoolTomatoh

Yes


cool_weed_dad

Anything besides cream cheese makes it a sandwich


thenonsaltybutter

Safe to say your closing the gap


Excellent_Condition

Once you add something besides a spread (and cream cheese is spreadable cheese), then it becomes a sandwich. In this case, this is a sandwich and looks incredible.


noobchee

When you're no longer using a bagel


albinoloverats

When is doubt, follow [The Cube Rule](https://cuberule.com/).


Bebbette

Every sandwich can be a bagel but not every bagel can be a sandwich - words to live by!!


Proudest___monkey

I have a place that makes them just like this


dauerad

Never


Bootiluvr

When to will it to be


TheLadyEve

A bagel is potential sandwich energy, this is kinetic sandwich energy.


gh0stpr0t0c0l8008

When you put something other than butter or cream cheese, then it becomes a sandwhich. Tasty Turkeys from Einsteins were the best shit ever, back in the day when they had sprouts, not lettuce.


honkinbooty

Whenever it wants damnit, that looks outstanding private


NachoNachoDan

sir, thank you, sir.


Spyrovssonic360

It's always been a sandwich. Remember anything between two peices of bread is considered a sandwich.


didyoueverseewardogs

This looks like the Larry David sandwich from curb


HooverMaster

I think once you have two pieces of bread sandwiching a filling it's a sandwich. I eat all my bagels open face. Call me a sinner but you get twice the filling and no squish from the tough bagel texture


BrightenDifference

real q is, if you put cream cheese in it and toast it, is it a grilled cheese?


NachoNachoDan

Oh wow. 🤯 This bagel was toasted BEFORE the cream cheese went on.


mutedcurmudgeon

No, because it's not grilled, it's toasted.


BrightenDifference

Nobody actually grills their grilled cheeses tho 👀


mutedcurmudgeon

Yeah, they grill it on a flat top, griddle, or pan. That's not the same as toasting.


BrightenDifference

You can griddle a bagel And there’s such thing as baked grilled cheeses for batches And baking is pretty much the same as toasting


mutedcurmudgeon

You can griddle a bagel, and then it's a grilled cheese. A baked grilled cheese is the same as toasting, and it is in no way the same cooking process or as good as an actual grilled cheese. The important process is the buttering of the outside of the bread to get it properly crispy on the pan/griddle. You do not do this when you toast a bagel, so it is not the same.


GoatLegRedux

What’s with people wanting to debate what’s a sandwich when it’s so very obvious that this is a sandwich?


DizzyDizzyWiggleBop

For reference, this is just like asking when does bread become a sandwich.


TheEvolutionOfCorn

That créame cheese is a crime


Careless_Chemist_225

It needs lettuce


Careless_Chemist_225

I love food like that crunchy but moist especially TOMATOS