ARTICLE 1: WHETHER A HOT DOG IS A TYPE OF SANDWICH?
OBJECTION 1: It seems as though a hot dog is a type of sandwich. For the term “sandwich” is commonly said of such foods constituted by meat, fish, vegetables, condiments, etc. surrounded on two sides by bread. Now a hot dog is constituted of a sausage made of meat surrounded on two sides by a bun made of bread. Therefore a hot dog is a type of sandwich.
OBJECTION 2: Further, hot dogs are commonly adorned with such toppings and condiments as mustard, ketchup, onions, and cheeses. Now sandwiches are also commonly adorned with the same condiments and toppings. Therefore a hot dog is a type of sandwich.
OBJECTION 3: Further, the Quarterback writes, “They gotta be, right? It's between two pieces of bread,” as does the Sports Anchor, “I would consider anything that you put between two pieces of bread would be considered a sandwich, so I would say technically it absolutely is a sandwich”. Therefore a hot dog is a type of sandwich.
ON THE CONTRARY, it is written by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, “…a hot dog is an exclamation of joy, a food, a verb describing one 'showing off' and even an emoji. It is truly a category unto its own."
I ANSWER THAT, a hot dog is not a type of sandwich. For the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a sandwich as “two pieces of bread with something (such as meat, peanut butter, etc.) between them” and a hot dog as “a small cooked sausage that is mild in flavor and is usually served in a long roll (called a hot dog bun).” Now a hot dog bun is by nature one continuous piece of bread. Hence a cooked sausage, placed inside a hot dog bun, is not contained by two separate pieces of bread, but by one continuous body. Therefore a hot dog is not a type of sandwich. Nor is it a type of sandwich if the sausage be placed between two pieces of a formerly continuous bun; for the bun, after division, is still substantially a bun, yet a corrupted version of it. Now a thing which becomes corrupted does not have its substance changed, just as the human soul, when corrupted by sin, does not cease to be a human soul. Therefore a sausage placed inside two separated halves of a hot dog bun does not constitute a sandwich, but a corrupted hot dog.
REPLY TO OBJECTION 1: Though a hot dog be constituted of a sausage surrounded on two sides by bread, it is surrounded on two sides by one continuous piece of bread, rather than two, as stated above. And a sandwich, as also stated above, by nature consists of two pieces of bread containing some other food. Therefore a hot dog is not a type of sandwich.
REPLY TO OBJECTION 2: That which is adorned or enhanced with the same things as another does not become a type of the other; for though pizza and spaghetti both be adorned with tomato sauce and cheese, the pizza is not said to be a type of spaghetti, nor the spaghetti a type of pizza. Again, though angels be adorned with garments similar to those of men, angels are not said to be types of men, nor men types of angels, for St. Paul distinguishes between “myriads of angels” and “the spirits of righteous men” (Heb. 12:22-23). Therefore a hot dog, though it be adorned or enhanced in a manner similar to a sandwich, is not a type of sandwich.
REPLY TO OBJECTION 3: Cousins and Brown are mistaken in their assessment of a hot dog, assuming it to be contained between two pieces of bread. But a hot dog is contained by one continuous piece of bread, as stated above. Therefore a hot dog is not a type of sandwich.