A county judge can rule on a local ordinance and set the dictionary on fire. And also give the internet what it loves most: A simple-looking but unanswerable question to brawl about forever.
I think this is highly relevant. Letâs ask outselvesâŠwhat is soup?
In Canada, we are very reluctant (if we will agree to it at all) to call something a sandwich when a bun is involved. If thereâs ANY kind of meat in a bun, itâs a burger. (A whole chicken breast served in a bun is a chicken burger and does not count as a chicken sandwich, for example.)
Fast-food employees trained using US-published manuals have asked me if I would like the meal or just the sandwich, and my first (stifled) reaction has been âWhat!? I never said anything about a sandwich, I just ordered a burger!â
In ordinary Canadian usage, hot dogs are altogether excluded from this argument. By law they may be this or that, but in normal speech they are sui generis.
In some sense, cannoli are sandwiches, because in some sense they are tacos, which in turn in some sense are sandwiches. 
Sandwich, Broad Definition:
Food that is a different colour on the outside than on the inside, and not because it grew that way. 
We gave it up when we got to âif you put a taco in a blender and freeze the results on a stick, is that a sandwich?â
Now that poses a tough question: if you take two pizza slices and stick them together with the bread outside, do you get a sandwich?
And what do you get if you arrange them with the bread inside?
and what if you put peanut-butter and jelly all over a Mobius strip, what have you got then? If you fight it out 17th-century style, pamphlets at 40 paces, youâll want these hot and otherwise useless coinages: PANIPLICATE âto fold breadâ PANIPLICATED vs. BIFURCATED (split roll), PANISCISSION âthe fact of splitting a loaf.â
A Möbius crĂȘpe I suppose, a treat that would arouse the lipido of any topologist on diet - but only if you manage to keep the peanut-butter on one side and the jelly on the opposite one 
They probably omitted PANINODARE âto knot breadâ, without which no pretzel would be possible 
I suppose a good point of comparison might be the humble âMcChickenâ or equivalent. A âchicken burgerâ in the UK, and a â(Mc)Chicken sandwichâ in the States.
I donât think the existence of open faced sandwiches really holds all that much weight. Isnât its name an admission of its insufficiency as a true sandwich? Seems almost to be saying âbottom half of sandwichâ.
All in all Iâd rather defy the law and side with Dougâs betweenity vs. enfoldedness: in order to turn a taco into a sort of sandwich one should at least cut off the tortilla where itâs folded and eat the infringing part separately.
As for David_Râs burger, due to my location Iâm a little hesitant: here - just like in the rest of the world (McGlobalization?) - a Burger is a bun with something edible stuck in it, but a BĂŒrger is a citizen. And eating a citizen, even if properly cooked and served, might feel a little awkward 
My view is no, because the pizza is formed as one thing then sliced, as opposed to being assembled from slices.
But you could argue those âpizza biteâ type things as open-faced sandwiches.
The pinwheel aka rolled sandwich laughs at this argument.
MochiâŠa sandwich? I donât think so. Are macarons a sandwich as well?
I feel like if you can say âIâll have a burrito sandwichâ without feeling like an idiot and you also get the correct order then sure a burrito is a sandwich.
Isnât the pinwheel a wrap technically?
Do we actually know that the Earlâs sandwiches were square and crustless? What references are there?
My father, from Michigan, would take a single slice of bread with peanut butter on top and fold it upon itself, calling it a âfoldieâ. He explained the word as a shortening of âfolded sandwichâ.
Living in the US Southwest he was thoroughly acquainted with the word âtacoâ.
He did say that a foldie was a version of taco⊠which literally means âsomething foldedâ in Spanish.
Spanish, with its usual widely expansive use of words [âtiendaâ meaning both âtentâ and âstoreâ, âtacĂłnâ (literally a large âtacoâ) being a shoeâs heel (because it was often a folded piece of leather)], would have no difficulty with a folded slice of bread, especially with a filling, being a âtaco gabachoâ. (Although almost any phrase with the word âgabachoâ is immediately anti-Yanqui in a gentle way.)
But would a taco be a kind of sandwich? Certainly, if it were eaten in circumstances appropriate for (or âfumctioned asâ) a sandwich. Just like a Pepsi is a âCokeâ in Florida, and a burger is considered a sandwich in most of the US.
Which I imagine is the reasoning of the judge.
It is not what is called street food.
street food. noun. : prepared food of a kind that is typically sold to customers on a street or sidewalk and that is often designed to be carried and eaten while walking.
Also that food that is local.