Summer is a wonderful time of year. A time where we can ask ourselves truly important questions. Questions that are so groundbreaking, so mind-shattering that one should not hope to ever encounter them in a traditional setting such as a classroom. No questions of such grave importance can only be relegated to one place: the group chat of the Roberts Wesleyan College Odyssey community.

It is here where we attempt to figure out the answers to truly important questions, such as “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” Being a group of young people trying to find ways to satisfy our intellectual pursuits, we found this question to be quite interesting, and attempted to answer it. Our editor-in-chief, Cheyenne Zaremba, stated that according to logic, a hot dog is indeed a sandwich, as it is meat between bread.

However, fellow writer, Colin Reinagel further defined a sandwich as requiring two slices of bread, therefore determining that a hot dog is not a sandwich. Personally, I feel as though it is best to look up the answers to such important questions, and according to USA Today, a hot dog is not a sandwich. I also reasoned that a sandwich is not always made with two slices of bread, as I have made several peanut butter and jelly for myself and others using only one slice of bread and folding it over.

That question now having an answer, we happened upon yet another important question: is a hamburger a sandwich? Colin stated that yes, according to his definition, a hamburger is indeed a sandwich. However, when I consulted people in my immediate vicinity who are more experienced in life and cooking/eating hot dogs and hamburgers than I, I was told that common sense rules here, and that a hamburger is not actually a sandwich, even if it does fit the definition.

So what do you think? Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is a hamburger? What is the definition of a sandwich?