Don’t get me started, but are you saying a gyro is a sandwich? 
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It’s a taco.
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which has been declared a sandwich in Indiana.
I am aware!
Yep. For me, if it has a bread-like substance on the outside, goodies inside, and is intended to be eaten by hand, then it’s a sandwich.
One exception for fully enclosed items like empanada and gozleme. Even though I eat the former by hand (if I can wait long enough for it to cool enough), fully enclosed and cooked as a pie makes it not a sandwich.
In the world according to Keyrock, anyway.
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What about a hot dog?
Sandwich. Goodies wrapped in bread, intended to be eaten by hand. Ditto fried chili cheese kielbasa on a hoagie (a favorite from my Army bowling alley days).
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In the world according to small_h, a sandwich is composed of (at least) two separate bread layers, with stuff in between them. So a single bread layer wrapped around stuff - a taco, a gyro - is not a sandwich. Except for lobster rolls and falafel - even though those have a single bread layer, I somehow think they’re sandwiches.
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What if your hot dog bun breaks at the hinge?
Voila! Sandwich.
ETA - also, hobgoblins and all that jazz.
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Instant transformation!
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Obligatory:
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So, a lobster roll isn’t a sandwich. A pan bagnat? Most hoagies and Phillys are served hinged like a hotdog, so they’re not sandwiches either?
I literally just said it was. Troll someone else.
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And good evening to you.
And that’s not literally what you said.
FWIW, I don’t think of a hot dog as a sandwich, either. But two discrete slices of bread don’t seem to be detrrminative.
As to what constitutes a sandwich, to steal a quote from Justice Potter Stewart “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced… [b]ut I know it when I see it …”
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Ah, Stewie, that master of taxonomy!
Or as RBG more recently said, “Tell me what defines a sandwich, and I’ll tell you if a hot dog is one.” Or something like that.
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That man is doing it correctly. You gotta lean or you’ll wear it. once you get the samich, you got like 5 minutes to down it, or the juice will turn the bread to a hot, wet mess. God I love that sandwich!
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I prefer gyros wrapped.
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