You may believe you hump what a sandwich is , but the frankfurter expert over at Oscar Mayer are here to tell apart you otherwise . AsThrillistreports , the company has boldly declare that spicy dogs are sandwiches , have it away that they ’ll take a lot of flak for that assertion .
It ’s acontroversial legal opinion , but it ’s one that many hoi polloi palpate powerfully about . “ All over America , the contestation about whether a spicy dog is a sandwich is torment , and our Oscar Mayer offices are no different , " Gregory Guidotti , Oscar Mayer ’s headland of marketing , toldFood & Winein 2017 . " I personally consider a hot wienerwurst is a sandwich , because of the dictionary definition . "
allow ’s be frank : We may not wish to think of hot dogs as sandwiches , but it ’s hard to argue with the definition . Merriam - Webster defines asandwichas “ two or more slice of cabbage or a split roll having a filling in between , ” and raging dogs for certain tally the verbal description .
Jimmy Deanalso has a stake in the outcome of this argument . It wants Merriam - Webster to amend its definition so that its breadless breakfast mathematical product ( like the egg’wich ) can also be look at sandwiches . Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg hasweighed inon the matter , argue that hot dog are , in fact , sandwich — at least agree to the definition chip in to her .
Oscar Mayer is so convinced in its conclusion that it created a hotline ( 1 - 833 - SNDWICH ) for people to call in and attempt to deepen their minds . It was only open for 24 hours , but it ’s still partly alive as of the morning of November 2 . A recorded content say “ the prison term to change our mind is up , ” but it still pay for callers to pull up stakes content , which may be used anonymously for merchandising materials . Some of the messages have already been divvy up on Oscar Mayer ’s Twitter .
Of course , the conversation is n’t all about semantics . As Guidotti admit in 2017 , the fundamental interaction with potential customers over whether or not hot dogs are sandwiches is only a “ proficient sales strategy . ”
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