sf wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:56:29 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:22:21 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> sf said...
>>>>>> I cringe whenever I see the term "hamburger sandwich"
>>>> It sounds wrong, but is it? You can make a hamburger and serve it with no
>>>> bun or bread, so putting it between slices of bread would then make it a
>>>> sandwich.
>>>>
>>> Do you *call* it a sandwich as in "I'll have a hamburger sandwich" or
>>> do you call it a hamburger like everyone else does? Do you tell them
>>> to "grill the bread" or do you say "grill the bun"?
>> Well that all depends. If I'm eating a burger at the local burger joints,
>> I'd not use the term sandwich. At home, we sometimes have hamburgers just
>> plain, with a salad and veggies on a dish, but other times, if no buns
>> around, I'd put it on sliced bread. Then it would be a hamburger sandwich.
>
> You actually use the term "hamburger sandwich"?
>> If I made a meal with sliced roast beef, cheese, may, lettuce and put it on
>> a hamburger bun, would it be a roast beef hamburger? Or would it be a roast
>> beef sandwich?
>>
> You call roast beef in a hamburger bun a sandwich? I call it not
> having any bread to make a real sandwich.
>

On the other hand, I consider it a "sandwich". What would *you* call it?
Myself? I think you'd call it "meat in a breading you don't like". Am I
right?

Bob