Age old question: Is a hot dog a sandwich?
Some folks get a bit animated while debating this topic.
My typical response: I don't care.
But, I started thinking about it more today than I ever had in some time.
As I prepared my late lunch/early dinner yesterday, I made it a "meat and three" skip the three.
There is a brand of beef sausage I really like and buy it in bulk. Normally, I just grill up a few of them, put them in a bun (or not), eat them (with perhaps a little mustard if I'm feeling spicy), and move on with my life.
So, my concern on whether a sausage or hot dog is considered a sandwich really has no relevance in my life. Never has.
However, the little bit of relevance it does take up is because it can be kind of a fun argument to have. I'd take the opposite stance of anyone that would want to debate the subject because … I don't care.
Gun to the head, I'd say, "Yes, sandwich," for no other reason than it is the simplest form of sandwich — meat of some form with bread on top and bread on the bottom.
The real dispute is whether a tubed meat can be sandwich material. Also, I'd imagine that the "bun" is grounds for some dispute in official sandwichdom. As you can see, the argument gets silly and devolves rather quickly.
Like good Texas sausage, I cut mine up today. Sliced, on the bias. Easy sandwich material.
I have a long-standing relationship with Southside Market & Barbecue. Find their stuff if you go to OLearyBeef.com — fantastic pit-roasted meats from Texas, delivered to your front door.
I've self-catered a few holiday meals with Southside products. You can even find a Youtube of me cooking and eating a delicious "Sausage Slammer" from Southside.
When I started O'Leary Beef, I was quite ambitious, trying to source beef for anyone who wanted it all over the world, but for one guy and a side project, that was daunting. Still is.
The mission remains the same, however. Great beef shipped to your front door. Southside fits the bill at this point.
Yet, we're still moving forward with O'Leary Beef. More offerings. More to come later in the year…
Back at the home office, we're putting the finishing touches on our virtual mastermind program, the Inner Sphere, due to launch later this spring. For the first cohort, it will be limited enrollment and we are going to be working on communication — written word, spoken word, and the video realm.
We haven't even opened the doors officially, but we are curating a "waiting list."
As mentioned a couple of days ago, not only can you now sign up for more information and be alerted to when we do open the doors (temporarily), but you get my FREE "Offensive Coordinator's Call Sheet," a double-sided paper with quotes, aphorisms, and motivational ideas that I use every day.
Free PDF—I recommend printing it out on cardstock—when you go to
As always,
Brian
P.S. -- If you like ketchup on your hot dog, I'll be happy to give you the productivity tool PDF, but we're probably not a good match for the upcoming mastermind. I still love you, but it's probably not going to result in a good working relationship right now. I'll keep you in mind for later iterations…
While I have no problem calling a sausage sandwich a sandwich, I just cannot say the same about a hot dog for some reason. Perhaps a hot dog is its own food group