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minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 hours agoA hotdog is not a sandwich. If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich. But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog. QED.
minus-squareben_dover@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 hours agoIn German, that would be a just a sausage
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoDo you have a term like “hotdog” for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? 😁
minus-squareben_dover@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 minutes agonah in this case it’s just sausage on its own - i know, boring 😄 people only refer to it as hotdog only if it’s in a bun
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 hour agoThe best German word is backfeifengezicht. It means: “a face in need of a slap/punch”
A hotdog is not a sandwich.
If you serve bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a plate, you do not call that a sandwich.
But if you serve a hotdog without a bun, you still call it a hotdog.
QED.
In German, that would be a just a sausage
Do you have a term like “hotdog” for a sausage of questionable origin in a bun? Or is it, like, sausageofquestionableorigininabun like other German compound words? 😁
nah in this case it’s just sausage on its own - i know, boring 😄 people only refer to it as hotdog only if it’s in a bun
The best German word is backfeifengezicht. It means: “a face in need of a slap/punch”