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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