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Alternative pronunciations of sandwich, though not abbreviations: “Samwich”, “sanawich”.

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Not to mention “Sammitch”.

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I will only accept "sanawich" if it's in specific reference to a sando from Sanagan's Meat Locker in Toronto's Kensington Market.

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https://restaurantguru.com/Duran-Sandwich-Budapest. Best open-faced sandwich in Budapest.

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How could you leave out the Danish open-faced sandwich?

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In truth, I'm still bitter about the Hans Island Dispute between Canada and Denmark. But then I learned that we resolved the matter last year, so henceforth I resolve to keep an open mind toward the open face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

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I'm relieved you now find it possible to embrace the open face, but as a citizen of the world, I would never let international disputes determine what food I eat. To eschew any comestible for political reasons would be like taking a sandwich to a banquet!

: )

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Once again, you gave me my first laugh out loud of the day with the pop tart is a sandwich!!!

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Only to the radical sandwich anarchists! And you know those people only drink herbal tea with their pop tarts, because proper tea is theft!

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Comment on punctuation: there is no punctuation in the original Hebrew Bible, which is good; this has saved us from unending debate, schisms and holy wars over the placement of a comma.

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So many apostrophe catastrophes averted! Here's hoping Punctuation makes a mad em-dash to the top spot!

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Sammies? Sandos? Utter madness! The only accepted abbreviation is 'sarnies', surely?!

Though, on reflection, I do accept that, here in the UK, we can't throw stones given our track record with naming bread-related goods (case in point: https://everywordcounts.co.uk/names-for-bread-rolls/).

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Visiting Copenhagen, where they claim the open-face sandwich is a Danish food. Feels ingredient neutral, and structurally European.

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Just saw someone note this above. Apologies for over-commenting. Hot dogs are sandwiches, tacos are not. As a genius once pointed out, sometimes things are different.

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