Monotremes feed their young by secreting milk through pores in the skin, not with nipples. That’s what Monotremes do. And they are separate. Not with Nipples! Hold on. Sorry I got excited We’re here at the biggest and baddest open air food market with the first official Mythical Kitchen pop-up collab all to ask people is a hot dog a sandwich? It a hot dog popup or a sandwich popup? Let’s find out. Welcome to Smorgasburgggg. Am I a sandwich? No! Yes. Come on right here. Give me some. Yes. It’s very hot. As hot as this pastrami. Hot as this area. Hot as that hotdog that is not a sandwich. I think it’s a sandwich. For the last five weeks, we’ve sat down with four different experts, a historian, a philosopher, a lawyer, and a business person to finally figure out if a hot dog is a sandwich. Do you believe that a hot dog is a sandwich or not? If I said, bring me a sandwich and somebody brought me a hot dog, I’d be disappointed. I think I think hotdogs deserve because they’re such a dignified food. They deserve to have their own category and don’t need to be confused with sandwiches. I I’m gonna have to go with yes, it is a sandwich. I agree. Under this newly proposed definition it would still be considered a sandwich. If I’m like, yo, I’m gonna go make us some sandwiches. What do you want? Humans, man. Nobody’s answering hot dog. Nobody’s answering hot dog. Nobody. But like how do you come back from that? I mean. Not only that we traveled all the way to the east coast to the Nathan’s hotdog eating contest to ask professional hot dog eaters if a hot dog is a sandwich. Tim, Tim, Tim is a hot dog a sandwich? No. Is a hot dog a sandwich? A hot dog is a hot dog Nicole. Everyone knows that. Joey, Joey, Joey is a hot dog a sandwich? Oh it’s a hot dog. The hot dog is not a sandwich. The hot dog is a hot dog. A hamburger is a sandwich, but a hot dog is a hot dog. It has its own category because it’s that important in our culture. Riveting. Thank you. We are in the presence of absolute Glizzy goddesses here. 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Is a hot dog, a sandwich? A Hot dog’s a hot dog. Alright. Everyone keeps saying that. It’s a hot dog. Oh man, you can’t you can’t ask or answer that question. It throws us into an existential crisis. It might cave in the universe. Like you have to, you have to de-contextualize everything. If you build, build it back up to hot dogs, then it implodes upon itself again. So the answer is yeah, obviously. That was the best damn answer I’ve ever heard. We’re here at the capital of the United States, Coney island, to ask people the only question that matters: Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is a hot dog a sandwich? I feel like since God created a hot dog and also a sandwich that it should be one and the same. Amen. Of course, of course a hot dog is a sandwich. He’s got meat inside of a bun. It’s what you need for a sandwich. Easy money. Wait, what’s on the shirt? I can’t do the interview if I’m aroused. Excuse me, ma’am, is a hot dog a sandwich? Yes. Do you think a hot dog is a sandwich? Absolutely. Yes. What the hell is going on? So we got our east coast opinions and now we’re at Smorgasburg, Los Angeles, to get our west coast opinions. Finally trying to get a definitive answer of what people think. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s go and ask ’em. Katie & Aaron, do you believe the hot dog is a sandwich? No, absolutely not. A hot dog’s a hot dog Nicole, yeah my eyes turned so bad. Oh my God. I, I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just here so I don’t get fined. I love it. You okay buddy? I sprayed sunscreen directly into my eyeballs earlier. Okay, that’s alriiiight. Where do we go now? Ma’am ma’am You just said something incredibly controversial. What did you say? A hot dog is nachos. Explain yourself. What is wrong with you? So you have like the family of like all these things that you hold with your hands, right? All these foods you do that way? Right? I hear that. Then you have the genus of the sandwich. But however you have all these other things that fit inside the genus of sandwich. Like a submarine sandwich, you have an ice cream sandwich, you have things like that. And that’s where hot dog falls in. Right? Well, is hot dog not already under the category of sausage sandwich? It could, yes, but that’s what I’m saying. But it that’s what I’m saying is it doesn’t fit under sandwich sandwich. Because we met somebody who die He fell on the sword that a meatball sub is not a sandwich. What do you have to say to him? His name’s Ken. Ken. It’s a mother sandwich. You heard it here first. It’s a mother sandwich. There’s children. Oh, sorry. I meant f-ing. There’s children Okay. Tell me the hot dog a sandwich, yes or no? Yes. Or you know what? It’s okay. You just go ahead and you make sure people disassociate the stuff. You make sure that it gets disassociated so that people understand was like, yes, this idea was good. Deciding what the identity of something is without asking it first is, is a tough thing to do. So does anyone have a hot dog so we can ask it? What it identifies as. A hot dog is an inanimate object. Oh, that’s a good point. Oh my God, Emily. I think I see my phone over there. Get out. Don’t look at us. Don’t look at me. Point it elsewhere. Point it elsewhere. I will. My father will Sue you. I think I knocked it over. Oh no. Oh my gosh, I didn’t even see you there. Hey, have you heard about our new party game we developed with our friends over at Spin Master called We’re Still Good? It’s a party game that laughs in the face of disaster. Ha ha ha. But it’s really fun. You basically play these cards to come up with these silly, terrible scenarios. And then you write down your own ways to put a fun, creative, positive spin on it. It’s available over at Amazon.com now. So check it out. We’re Still Good. So Josh’s Subway argument. In some places Subway’s bread isn’t even considered bread. It was, it fell under what is called the Value Added Tax Regulation. Ireland determined it was too unhealthy to be subject to that tax reduction. So I don’t believe that the Irish court actually ruled it was cake so much so that they ruled it does not qualify under certain nutritive standards for a tax break. And the headlines were wrong. I thought I had him. I thought I got him and he knew more about me than I did. Welcome to my life. Welcome to my life. Are you Meggie’s dad? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. Okay. We Meggie’s dad here to tell us about hot dog, a sandwich or not? I voted that it is not a sandwich. Yeah! Dad! One piece of bread folded over like is a taco a sandwich? Is a burrito a sandwich? I don’t know. But you so much like Meggie it’s freaking me out It’s incredible. Stop trying to trick us Meggie. What if I told you what if I told you that there are records dating back to 1841 of them literally using the phrase hotdog sandwich to describe what is now a hotdog. What if I told you We used to do lobotomies back then too. There it is. There it is. What if I told you that if you took a hot dog back to 1776 and showed it to the founding fathers they’d probably shoot you with a musket. If you wanna actually draw this out and send if you have a spare hour. Yeah. ‘Cause I would love that. Exactly. I could totally do that. Sorry. I was eating an Arepa you guys were so passionate I had to walk away. I’m a man of paradoxes. I embrace the mystery that is inherent to the universe. And this is, you know I think this is really emblematic of my career. You know, I started going to school for engineering. It was very technical. And when, when I was in that place in my life and in that thought pattern I would say yes, from a technical standpoint when you put anything between two slices of bread, even if there’s a hinge, yes, that is technically a sandwich. However, from a spiritual standpoint when we’re talking about the nature of things I believe that a hot dog is in and of itself something that only a hot dog can be. Whose idea was the specific offering today? You, you, you? I reached out to Geraldo. I slid in his DMs and he was like, Hey man, I got a fiance. And I was like, no, no, no, I’m not here for that. Do you wanna sell hot dogs together? And we told him about our concept. But we still haven’t talked is a hot dog a sandwich? Of course is not. It’s not. Okay, well that makes sense. That makes sense. You were so quick with that. I mean, I’m gonna try to explain in English probably will be easier for me in Spanish. The name of the food or whatever kind of food you get is in the way that you prepare it. You don’t prepare, at least Venezuelan hot dogs, And for me, any hotdog, in the same way that you prepare a sandwich. Because the bun is in a steamer and the stuff that you put on it is different. What happened? Imagine if you ask me to me, Hey, hi Geraldo could we get some barbecue? And I bring you some chicken nuggets and I tell you eat chicken. This is barbecue. You’re gonna say “no”! Because the way that you prepared it is different. Interesting. Yeah. Actually, that’s one of the better points that I’ve heard. So you think that someone’s expectations are a big part of this. Because like people would be like if you say this one thing, I’m picturing something. If you say hot dog, you’re not picturing a sandwich you’re picturing a hot dog. Exactly. And the way that you prepared it is too important and the way that you are doing it is totally different and is what made it a hot dog, not a sandwich. This, this is very difficult to argue with because I mean, this man has dedicated his life to this. Exactly. He’s a hot dog vendor and who are and he spent his whole life making hotdogs. So who are we to come in and tell him, no, no, no, you’re wrong, Geraldo, you are wrong. It is a sandwich. Who are we? Yet here I am. Yet here I am telling you that. Geraldo, I love you. I appreciate you. I thank you. We’ve done awesome work today. And I still believe that we’re making sandwiches and No way! I’m sorry Everyone is free to think whatever they want. But I have my concept. No, no. Thank all of you. And for us, it was a great experience. We loved the day. We were thinking in the beginning it was gonna be a disaster, but your team did so good! Yes! You were, you were a little bit worried. Yeah, no I was so scared, but your team is so good. And also my team helped me a lot. [Annaliese]: Let’s hear it for the team! Woo the team! Thank you. Buy a hot dog! And hot dog is not a sandwich! Allegedly. Allegedly. Got Zach Brooks, market manager, Smorgasburg Los Angeles. And what does he have here? This is a hot dog sandwich. Okay. This is a sandwich. Zach, tell me about what you think you’re saying. If I saw something on a menu that said a hot dog sandwich or a hot dog listed under a sandwich this right here is what I would expect to see. Right? Right. Which is not a hot dog. It’s a hot dog sandwich. Two different things. ‘Cause of the bread. The bread is cut up. The hotdogs are cut up. It’s cut up. A hot dog bun is not commonly accepted as sandwich bread. You ever had a lobster roll? Yeah. What about it. That’s a roll. Oh. Ugh. You son of a . You son of a . We got him! That’s a good one! So I thought back to what I like to eat. And I thought about a cheese steak. I’m originally from Philadelphia. Nice. And I’m like, is that a sandwich? I would say it is a sandwich as well. So on a technicality a hot dog is a sandwich. But don’t you think that a hot dog deserves a level of like class and iconicism? Like it is what it is. Like a hot dog is Americana. Like when you think of hotdogs you think about red, white and blue baby. Yeah. This is Nicole’s patriotic era. So if you were to describe a hot dog to an alien you would describe it as a sandwich right? Yes. Wow. Is that compelling to you, Nicole? Yeah, because I freaking love aliens man. Like, okay. A sandwich is just like a categorization that like generally people can understand. And like there’s a lot of time on these foods that I don’t know how to explain to people. Like there’s like, Gua Bao, I would say like, okay that’s a sandwich to somebody who’s never had it. So the Gua Bao thing is what originally tripped me up where I was like, one, if I’m not from Taiwan I feel like it’s not my place to categorize that as a sandwich or not. However, the fact that you said it’s actually very helpful to be able to explain things to people. I mean, that’s the function of language, right? Yeah. Where I that actually really gave me the confidence to say that a hot dog is in fact a sandwich. So thank you. A hot dog falls into its own genus and species. Right? A hot dog is a Monotreme. A hot dog is a Platypus. I literally Monotreme’s feed their young by secreting milk through pores in the skin, not with nipples. That’s what Monotremes do. And they’re separate. Not with Nipples! Hold on. Sorry I got excited I no longer believe that a hot dog is a sandwich. Take your shirt off. I believe that a hot dog, like a Platypus or a Monotreme is in a separate genus entirely. Take your shirt off. I need a new shirt. Ryan! I need a new shirt. Ryan, we need a new shirt. He’s a medium. He’s a large but he wears a medium. You guys are a great team. I did not see this happening. The way that you guys argue. I feel like, we can learn. Did you come prepared? Did you like have notes? We’re team burger. If we’re being honest, we are a team. You eat together. Ahhhhh it’s so hot My logical chain says yes. Tell me about the logic that led you to believing that, because I was in your position less than eight minutes ago. So I started with a a parallel argument about a tomato being a fruit. Like no one goes to a sandwich shop and is like I want a hot dog and no one is like, oh my favorite fruit is a tomato. And I think the characteristics of a sandwich could make a hot dog a sandwich. Even though I still wouldn’t refer to a hot dog as a sandwich ’cause that’s like not whole truly what we’re accustomed to. Interesting. But, if I think about like a hot dog, they’re they’re different I understand that. But a hot dog is a sandwich. We live it a society. We need rules. A hot dog is a sandwich. Noooooo A hot dog is a sandwich. I believe in the Schrodingerian hot dog hypothesis Nicole. Okay. A hot dog is both a sandwich and not a sandwich at the same time, depending on who is analyzing it. That’s the- That’s the worst answer ever. You are literally not making sense. You didn’t answer the question. Nicole, is a hot dog a sandwich? Yes Is a hot dog not a sandwich? Yes. Is is a, it is a for the sake of the argument it is a sandwich, but. A hot dog is a sandwich, but a hot dog is not a sandwich. No, no, no. However, that also means.. Hey, if you don’t listen to the podcast if you have no idea what the fudge we’re talking about you can listen to the entire five part series over on Spotify right now. It’s all there. Check it out. It’ll be worth your time. If it’s not Nicole will pay you out of her own pocket. I absolutely will not. I have student loans A new mythical kitchen creature approaches. The pizzacock is here and available on a brand new apron. Come face to face the mythical kitchen pizzacock apron now at mythical.com.