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Lopen posted...

The bowl argument only applies if you're putting something distinctive in the bowl. Like a BLT is just bacon lettuce and tomato so the only notable aspect of it is you're throwing it on a sandwich. The ingredients have no inherent blending. They're just distinct flavors that go well together.

That doesn't make it not a distinctive sandwich, but it drives home that the identity is tied to the fact that it must exist on a sandwich.

Sloppy joe is kinda like, I dunno, egg salad. You can put egg salad on a sandwich and it's popular. Let's imagine a hypothetical world where egg salad wasn't called egg salad but a Tenacious Gobunger, and it was typically given on a sandwich. In this hypothetical world if I wanted my Tenacious Gobunger in a bowl, it'd still more or less taste similar to it on a bun. People wouldn't say my Tenacious Gobunger in a bowl ain't Tenacious Gobunger.

You're arguing a BLT is only considered a sandwich because of the consensus belief that it is a sandwich. The ONLY difference in your sloppy joe argument is that you disagree with the consensus. In this hypothetical world where the consensus way to consume egg salad is a sandwich called the Tenacious Gobunger, and rarely is it enjoyed in non-sandwich form, yes, people would think you are weird for deviating from the consensus and eating a bowl of Tenacious Goburnger filling.

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