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As HN: Is a Hot Dog a Type of Taco?

4 pointsJoel_Mckay19 comments

Please explain your answer. =)

I don't know if I'm more offended by the Title Case, or the question itself.

This doesn't deserve a human answer, so ChatGPT will have to suffice: No, a hot dog is a type of sausage sandwich, typically served on a bun, while a taco is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of a corn or wheat tortilla filled with various ingredients such as meat, beans, and cheese. They are different types of food.

There is nothing in the rule book that says a "hot dog" ie. a type of sausage, can't be placed in a tortilla. So there, Mr Wise Guy.

I've also made hot dog quesadillas in the past when I didn't have any bread.

I find your indignation offensive.

Or do I... =)

"This doesn't deserve a human answer"

Think outside the bun.

"As HN" I would say this is a Reddit question.

you missed the uppercase T ;)

when in rome

Ahem… Hot Dogs, Slices of Pie, and Sub Sandwiches are all types of Tacos.

Behold the Cube Rule https://cuberule.com

They are both open-faced sandwiches (folded subvariant).

Is a corn dog a linear meat-filled donut?

If we extrapolate, we can stipulate an n-dimensional meat-filled circular (per dimension) and potentially helical delicacy. The possibilities. Great Scott!

The Klein Dog

currently solved in 3 dimensions; 8 should also be "easy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_potato "Some varieties have spliced sausages in between"

no, because a donut is open at both ends. Corn dogs are a subset of stick-mounted, filled (fully enclosed/capped at both ends) pastries. There are many meat-filled pastries (although it is a bit of a stretch to call a non-sweet fried corn batter a pastry, I can't think of an alternative).

But mutually exclusive subsets with similar morphology... seems nonsensical.

Is a chili dog a taco in a raised bun? The differentiator is a yeast raised dough?

This would form a logical contradiction with Soft Taco sub-variants.

All examples of food types are just points in a high dimensional space, grouped primarily by ingredient, cooking method, and topology (ceviche is that little outgroup over on the right, next to the much larger sushi grouping: "chemically cured, non-cooked fish")

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