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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Definition: frankfurter; especially : a frankfurter heated and served in a long split roll 
 
 The word hot dog refers either to the sausage that you buy squeezed in a plastic package with 7 or so of its kind, or to the same sausage heated and served in a long split roll. 
 
 When it's served in the roll, it's also a sandwich. 
 
 We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. But given that the definition of sandwich is "two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between," there is no sensible way around it. If you want a meatball sandwich on a split roll to be a kind of sandwich, then you have to accept that a hot dog is also a kind of sandwich. 
 
 You could hinge your anti-hot-dog-as-sandwich argument on whether the hot dog sausage qualifies as a "filling," but if you choose to interpret filling narrowly as only "a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches," rather than broadly as "something used to fill a cavity, container, or depression," then you're not going to allow any single-item filling to qualify a food item as a sandwich—which means there can be no thing as a peanut butter sandwich or a bologna (or even baloney) sandwich. 
 
 Hence, a hot dog is a sandwich. ||||| The people from Merriam-Webster — the “most trustworthy dictionary and thesaurus of American English” — trolled Twitter on Friday by officially declaring that the hot dog is, in fact, a sandwich. 
 
 Needless to say, the tweet didn’t sit too well with frankfurter fans. 
 
 “Stop it. No one has ever been in the mood for a sandwich and bought a hot dog. They’re not the same thing,” fumed ESPN reporter Arash Markazi. 
 
 “Anyone who thinks the hot dog is a sandwich can go ahead and unfollow me immediately or get kicked in the shin,” added Dijana Kunovac. 
 
 Tweeting directly at Merriam-Webster, user @JoeRoobol wrote, “this is terrorism,” while Kevin Morrell said, “this tweet made me an @OED convert,” in reference to the Oxford English Dictionary. 
 
 It’s ultimately a question that has plagued humanity for years: Is the hot dog a sandwich? 
 
 While families, friends and even experts have taken part in the debate, Merriam-Webster decided to officially weigh in on Friday — ahead of a holiday weekend that brings barbecues from coast to coast. 
 
 “We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. But given that the definition of sandwich is “two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between,” there is no sensible way around it,” they wrote on their website. “If you want a meatball sandwich on a split roll to be a kind of sandwich, then you have to accept that a hot dog is also a kind of sandwich.” 
 
 And for those thinking that the hot dog sausage does not qualify as a “filling,” Merriam-Webster has an explanation for that, too. 
 
 “If you choose to interpret filling narrowly as only “a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches,” rather than broadly as “something used to fill a cavity, container, or depression,” then you’re not going to allow any single-item filling to qualify a food item as a sandwich—which means there can be no thing as a peanut butter sandwich or a bologna (or even baloney) sandwich,” they said. “Hence, a hot dog is a sandwich.” 
 
 Still, the concept was hard to swallow for some. 
 
 “Hot dog a sandwich? How dare you, Merriam-Webster?!?” seethed Twitter user @drdrbrockman. 
 
 “You’re wrong. The hot dog is not, and never will be, a sandwich,” wrote Taylor Mooney. 
 
 Christian Ash concluded, “The Hot Dog is the American Taco. It is far from a damn sandwich.”
– Putting the kibosh on the great Memorial Day weekend debate you probably didn't know was happening, Merriam-Webster took to Twitter to declare, once and for all, that a hot dog is a sandwich, reports the New York Post. “We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. But given that the definition of sandwich is 'two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between,' there is no sensible way around it,” the dictionary's editors wrote in a list of 10 kinds of, well, sandwiches. “If you want a meatball sandwich on a split roll to be a kind of sandwich, then you have to accept that a hot dog is also a kind of sandwich.” Twitter erupted with cries ranging from telling sandwich believers to "get kicked in the shin," to "terrorism," to threats to become an Oxford English Dictionary convert, notes the Post. As for those who contend that the hot dog itself doesn't qualify as a filling, per the Merriam-Webster decree: “If you choose to interpret filling narrowly as only 'a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches,' rather than broadly as 'something used to fill a cavity, container, or depression,' then you’re not going to allow any single-item filling to qualify a food item as a sandwich—which means there can be no thing as a peanut butter sandwich or a bologna (or even baloney) sandwich. Hence, a hot dog is a sandwich.”