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July 15, 2026 18 mins
On National Hot Dog Day.. A debate began over.... Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? Maverick says it is definitely not. Lulu, however, says, it definitely is... it seems people are split and thery all have some very good and funny reasons, why... LISTEN HERE

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This must be food week or something. Yesterday was Mac
and Cheese Day. Today i'm reading is hot dog Day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, you know, it's summer, and I think you're eating
maybe a little bit differently. Kids are out of school
and you're going to barbecues and hangouts and at the
pool in the backyard and all that.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Summer's fool of food.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It is both of those things, mac and cheese and
hot dogs. I mean, you would eat them in the summer,
you'd eat them in the winter as well, but they're
very popular all year round.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
But I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
They're both staples for summer backyard get together.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So Lula and I were just talking since it's National
hot Dog Day today. The whole controversy that you see
sometimes is brewing here in our studio this morning. Is
the hot dog a sandwich? Lulu says it is. Yes, Obviously,
the hot dog is not a sandwich. It's between two

(00:57):
pieces of bread. Anything between two pieces of bread. Is
the sand Actually not two pieces of bread. It's a
piece of bread that's connected.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Well, mine never stay is connected. So it's two pieces
of bread.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
What are you doing to that thing?

Speaker 4 (01:14):
You don't need to know.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
You think a hot dog is really a sandwich?

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, why wouldn't it be? It makes like I don't
even see it any other way.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's not a sandwiches and then you're putting condiments on it.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
The whole thing is a sandwich.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, no, no, yes it is.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Hot Dogs are a separate thing.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Is a hogi a sandwich?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's not always in two pieces until I get my
hands on it. But I'm just saying it's an open
piece of bread that becomes two.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Not every hogi is connected, though, So that's what I'm
just saying. It's very has come connected. Hogy sandwiches, they're
not always connected.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Maybe they're not, but it's the same thing. Everyone calls
it a hogi, A hogy is a sandwich a hot dog?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, not everybody calls it hogy.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
There's all kinds of names for those kinds of sandwiches,
A sub, a hero.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh, they're all sandwiches. I'm gonna get a sandwich. I'm
gonna go get a hogy from the.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Stokey I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's like, yeah, it's stokey off, they're off sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Okay, what do you think is a hot dog a sandwich, now,
ma'am you with Lulu? Is this right?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Hello from so pat and Northport.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
What do you think, Maverick? Ask you a questions?

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Why is it on a menu?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's under sandwiches. Yeah, so it's interesting. You know, I
was thinking about this earlier. Certain places it will be,
you know, mid to up level places burgers and hot
dogs there.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, I'm not. I'm explaining.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Certain places will have hot dogs and burgers under sandwiches.
Certain places will have hot dogs in their own section
and burgers in their own section.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
They're not always because it's probably their special tea.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, I've never seen a hot dog listen under anything
but undersandwiches.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You you've never seen hot dogs as her own section?
Haven't you seen burgers has their own section.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
I'm not talking about specialty places. I'm talking a regular restaurant.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Pat.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
How many places are you going that even serve hot
dogs on a menu. There's not that many, more than
you think. Yeah, give me three places off the top
of your head where hot dogs are on the menu.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
You wouldn't know these places.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
You you switch the narrative here about it?

Speaker 6 (03:41):
Place I go, there's hot dogs on the menu, that's
not that popular restaurant.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
What a hot dog is on the menu, it's under sandwities.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Hot dogs. It doesn't matter how many restaurants have them
or not.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Pat is going to places nobody else is going to
for her hot dogs.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Too many places. Yeah, you're a god.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
You'll never give up.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Thank you, Pad, I love you. I love you.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I was out last week, right, it was on vacation,
and I didn't go to any fancy places. I couldn't
afford it, right, But I went to like mid level
places or whatever.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And I was just.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Thinking, as I'm talking to Pat, there there are now
menus where it says handhelds and that has everything from
hot dogs to sandwiches to hamburgers. So there's not always
a sandwich section. Sometimes they now they've broadened it to
handle things like hot dogs and hamburgers and sandwiches.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Together in the handheld in the hand.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
You've seen the handheld, Okay, so that.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Doesn't solve anything.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
If it's hand section, then either of us kind of win.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
On that one.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
I'll take the wind. What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And sir, you agree with Lulu?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is that what you're trying to tell me.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
I have to agree with Lulu on this one.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Well, thank you?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Who's this?

Speaker 7 (05:12):
This is JC?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
JC? Where you calling from?

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Sarasota.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Sandwich an item of.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Food consisting of two.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Pieces of bread with meat, tees, or other fillings between them,
as a light needle.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Lulu, you're correct, thank you very much. Well hold on
a second, though, JC. A hot dog isn't on two
pieces of bread. A hot dog is on a hot
dog bun.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, I guess that would be a very good plight.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Hold on, no, no, no, just hold on a second man.
A hot dog bun made of well connected and it
breaks away. It's not always connected. It's bread.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
But here's the deal.

Speaker 8 (05:56):
If you have a non connected bun, people avoid them.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
If you've ever been to a.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Barque or somewhere, they stay away from the non connected
buns because it can lead to a mess.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Now, if you put your condiments on properly.

Speaker 9 (06:08):
Yeah, I'm done, j C.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I would have to say, wouldn't you prefer a connected bun?
What do you mean? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
But it would become a hot dog man, not a sandwich.

Speaker 9 (06:17):
I changed my mind, thank you. Never What do you
think now, ma'am? You're with Lulu.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is this right?

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
It is?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Come it is.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
This is between bread.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's on a bun, it's not is a bun of bread?

Speaker 6 (06:39):
A bun is bread, but a.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Bun is connected. A sandwich is on connected or not?
Because a sandwich is on two separate?

Speaker 9 (06:48):
Is a sandwich?

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Suboy is a sandwich and all that bread is connected?

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Right?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, but that's different, don't no, it's not different.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Why is it different? That's different? Bread is bread?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Bread is bread.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Why doesn't subway serve hot dogs because it's not.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
A sandwich because they're not a hot dog place.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Exactly, because hot dogs are different than sandwich.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yes, no, no, no, no, no no, you did not
you did not.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
No, you did it.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
You're crazy, but you love it.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You're nuts, but we love you.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Thank you every day, you too, sir. You're with me.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
You have an example here. Hello.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Now, if you take two pieces of pizza and put
them on top of each other, become a sandwich if there's.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Pepperoni, sausage or chicken on it.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, a pizza sandwich, Holy, pizza sandwich. It's a sandwich, yes,
if it's pepperoni or you got.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Chicken or sausage, isn't that a cow zone?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
No, it's sandwich.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Or strong bully.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
You're mixing food now you started it. They call it
your hot dog or do they call it your sandwich din?

Speaker 4 (08:05):
But we're not saying that is a great part. That
would be putting a hot dog in its own category.
Hot dog is a sandwich. It's included.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
We're sandwiched in here.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
We're sandwiched in this room.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
We're not hot dogged.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
You know you can say you're hot dogged in because
it's a sandwich.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
You ever heard of?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
What plan are you from?

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I'm gonna use it now I'm hot dogged in here.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
You better be careful where you say.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Good story.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Oh I'm talking about the bread or the other.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm hot dogged in?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
You are?

Speaker 4 (08:46):
You've driven me to it.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Do you have a thought on this, sir? You wanted
to say what? Hey, good morning?

Speaker 6 (08:53):
I think it's more of a hogy or a thumb ah.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
No, it's a hot dog. It's not on a hogy roll.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
You have a hot dog.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's not bun. It's not on a hogy roll or
a stub roll. It's on a hot dog bun.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh, come on, what did you cut the hot dog
in half lengthwise like I do, and then put it
on a piece of on one piece of bread and
fold it over.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Is that a taco?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Here's the deal. That's a great point, though, Sir.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Lulu keeps saying you put a hot dog on two
pieces of bread. I think if people are eating it
on bread, most of the time they're just rolling it
in one piece of bread. I don't think they're putting
it on two pieces of bread. That's what I've seen.
Now you want to throw a curve ball in this
whole situation, ma'am?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Is that right? Hello?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
It's a lettuce wrap a sandwich?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't know that it would be. I think it's
more of a rap.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, I would call it a.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sandwich a rap.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
It's just the same stuff you'd put in the same no.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
No, but see, a rap is not you don't use bread.
You usually use a tortilla, don't you. How do you
make a rap with bread?

Speaker 5 (10:06):
I've never made a wrap with bread.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I always just use the lettuce. Okay, but I think
a lettuce rap is a rap. Not A rap is
not a sandwich. A rap is a rap.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
What about if you were to take two.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Hot dogs slit them down the center.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Really, by the way, who's cutting their hot dogs in
half consistently? I understand you may go somewhere and someone
might do it, but how many people are cutting hot
dogs in half? Don't cut them in half completely?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
They're still like hanging on by their casing.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like slit them, Yeah, slip Who splits their hot dogs?
Two hot dogs on a piece of bread with everything
else that one would eat hot dogs with. Now, what
does that called that sandwich?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
It's a hot dog. If it's a hot dog, it's
a hot dog.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
But it's on square bread.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Here's the thing, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
You got it all sideways at the beginning by bringing
up wraps, because I think wraps helped prove the point
on the hot dogs not a sandwich. Yes, it does,
because a wrap's not a sandwich. You even agreed a
wrap's not a sandwich. So a hot dog is kind
of like a wrap.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's between bread. It's bread a sandwich.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, no, no, we all agree.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
A rap is it a sandwich? It's a wrap? Yeah, okay,
so a hot dog is just a hot dog?

Speaker 1 (11:35):
What do you think? And you say what ma'am?

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Hey, guys, I wanted to put my head butt on
the hot dog.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
A hot dog is a hot dog.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Sandwich is a salwich.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
And ara that's a wrap.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
A hot dog hot dog.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
The hot dog is a hot dog is a hot dog.
But when a hot dog's on a bun, it's a sandwich.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
It's bread, right, swich.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
They're not going to give you a hot dog.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Correct, Well, they'll say what do you want on your sandwich?
I'll say a hot dog.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
If you got a sandwich place, I would say ninety
nine percent.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Of the time, hot dogs are not on the menu.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
You ever ask you never asked.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I absolutely love you.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
We are they gonna pull a hot dog out of
the back?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Maybe where do you find those hot dogs? Now?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Hey, thanks for calling.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Thank you, you welcome.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Okay, you too too. All right, sir, you had a
question on this thing, Is that right? Hello?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Dog controversy? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:55):
So why did you throw a chili on it? A
hot dog?

Speaker 3 (12:59):
What you still like out?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, you're adding a condiment in your choice of condiment?

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Is chili?

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Is a chili dog a sandwich?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
It is.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
This.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
You have a sloppy joe. That's a sloppy joe sandwich.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
A sloppy Joe is on two pieces of a bun.
Two pieces a hot dog bun is one vessel.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
That breaks apart. If it's between my hot.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Dog doesn't break. You're apparently too rough with the hot dog.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
You're absolutely right, that's the problem.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Problem for me.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Is getting rough with the hot dog.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
People seem to be split on this debate. It's definitely
not a sandwich. Disagree and sir you said you had
some information for us.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Steen, I'm down with Enna.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Steven Venice, what's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Are you talking about the hot dog?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (14:08):
The National hot Dog Sausage Capital says the hot dog
is not a family.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Steve, how do you know that? I looked it up?

Speaker 8 (14:23):
The National hot Dog Counsel Ulus says hot dog is
not a sandwich from a reporter Steve on the scene.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Hold, I'm looking it up. Steve.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You heard us talking about this and decided to look
it up.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yes, I did, well, which led me to now looking
it up. Even the language experts have issued a verdict.
Miriam Webster came down definitely about Webster, hot dog.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Is a sand.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Because the definition of a sand, which is two or
more slices of bread or spilling.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
It is not two pieces of bread.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's one bar feature hot dog delicately apart.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Steve.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Even when you take it out of the hot dog
bun bad it sometimes comes apart.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Hot dog, but.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
The hot dog CHUNXLS says are wrong.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Mirriam Webster says, it is, Steve.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I love you, thanks for calling.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Thanks Steve, you do what do you think Lulu's claiming
a hot dog is a sandwich?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I say it's not. You're with me, sir? Is that right?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (15:41):
Okay? Hot dogs are in the roll family, like a
like a hooky's in a roll shape. Grinder is in
a roll shape.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's long and narrow.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Sandwiches are square.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
They could be cut in triangles.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Wait, this is great. We got rolls in squares.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Some people cut a sandwich in half and it's a
tryan diagonal.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
So you're still trying to fit around taking a square hole.
You're doing it wrong, Rolser. Long squares are squares that
have the sandwich.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And triangles are triangles exactly.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, I agree with the triangle.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
You're mixing shape.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Stop mixing.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Shake.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
He says, it's a shape conversation has nothing to do
with the sandwich.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Shape you eat a hot dog sideways or long ways?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
It is the best one I ever.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Heard all morning.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
You can't a fandwich on any on the side.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
It's long ways. You taking mongue for the side.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
It doesn't make it a sandwich or not.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
You ever seen anybody fight the side of hot dog?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Oh no, it's sandwich. But it's still a sandwich.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's still the same.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I'm gonna picture of Lula fighting a hot dog sideways.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'll see what I could do for you.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
If you fight hot dog sideways, everybody's gonna move away
from you.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Is gonna be like he is, eating hot dog on
the side. Would bother me?

Speaker 6 (17:28):
If I just I would get away from them as
fast as easier to get in their mouth.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Now, sure you had some advice for me?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
You're not a very smart man, because there's no man
that has.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Won an argument with a woman.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
You win an argument with a woman. That's the best advice.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Again, give up and shut up.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Good advice a service.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I like it. I love you, man, Love you YouTube brother.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
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