![]() Our earliest evidence of the word in use in English is from 1915. ![]() To file in the "etymologies that probably aren't true" is this tale about the origin of the croque monsieur: a café owner who was also known to be a cannibal invented the croque monsieur (which was a distinct departure from the traditional ham-and-cheese on a baguette), and told customers it was "monsieur," playing on the joke about his own cannibalism. The sandwich and its name are French croque monsieur translates as "(one) bites with a crunch (the) gentleman." A more colloquial gloss would be "snack gentleman." Croquer can mean "to crunch" and "to be crunchy," among other things. ![]() If béchamel weren't enough, the glorification of the croque monsieur is further secured by its mention in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time). And the whole mess can be grilled or fried or broiled. During preparation, a croque monsieur can be dipped in the béchamel, or the béchamel can be spooned or brushed onto the sandwich. It's basically a glorified ham and cheese sandwich-if here we let "glorified" refer to the involvement of the glorious and eminently useful béchamel sauce, which is often the batter used. 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.ĭefinition: a ham and cheese sandwich that is usually dipped in batter and grilled 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. 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. We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. When it's served in the roll, it's also a sandwich. 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. Definition: frankfurter especially : a frankfurter heated and served in a long split roll
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