The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)
I have a passing interest in linguistics[3] and so let me tell you, after intensive meditation about the topic I found that sandwich could well be cognate to German &quot;Wecke&quot;, a bread bun, supposedly related to &#x27;wedge&#x27;. I can&#x27;t pin point &quot;sand-&quot; yet.<p>I think that would be crucial to determine the precise meaning. I&#x27;m very much against either extreme, pre- or description, but I find that expanding the sample space back to include historic meaning may yield results able to satisfy both sides.<p>Maybe I can still help out. We are actually talking about the club sandwich. Club sandwich could be, for all I know, which is very little about the club sandwiches history, cognate to Ger. &quot;Klappstulle&quot; (a 2-sandwich [to use the OP&#x27;s typology] made by folding a slice over) at least the club part, and both could go all the way back to the Proto Indo European root whence glue (to stick together) compare Ger. &quot;Kleber&quot; (glue), &quot;Kleie&quot; (wheat-paste?), and perhaps Old English and Gothic &quot;hlaif&quot; (bread) then most likely in reference to dough, Ger. &quot;klumpen&quot; - &#x27;clump&#x27;, &#x27;glob&#x27;. A club of people sticks together. The swinging and clubbing club could perhaps compare to &#x27;key&#x27; (from Lt. clavis, from a sense nail, peg, hook), as stick, sticky and clavis, claudo show similar relations. &quot;Klappe&quot; means &#x27;hatch&#x27;, &#x27;shutter&#x27;, &#x27;mouth&#x27;, we say something &quot;klappt nicht&quot; (doesn&#x27;t function), &quot;(um)klappen&quot; ... it&#x27;s baffling that there&#x27;s no good translation: The lid of box is a &quot;Klappe&quot;, and closing it shut is &quot;zuklappen&quot;; A &quot;klappe&quot; that doesn&#x27;t shut tight, flaps and makes noise, that noise is called &quot;klappern&quot; and from that all kinds of &#x27;to make noise&#x27; &quot;klappern&quot;; Best fit would be &#x27;clamp&#x27;. Now it depends at which time, if there was a relation at all, our dinners aligned or diverged. But, since you can&#x27;t take a Hot Dog to work and eat it later--already cold--it cannot be a club sandwich, at least if folding is done primarily to stack and wrap them without making a mess of it. Well, I made a mess of it, I didn&#x27;t check references on most my claims, but I&#x27;ll have to wrap it up.<p>As a working hypothesis I suppose &quot;sand&quot; relates to Ger. &quot;Kanten&quot;, the thick end of a loaf, related to &quot;Kante&quot; (edge), but its Greek root has no secure origin so a link to the celtic word for rim, tire giving &quot;waybread&quot; or &quot;wagonbread&quot; (cp. Ger. &quot;Weg&quot; - way; &quot;Wegebrot&quot;) is not too promising. It&#x27;s just, I have that image of the thick end bread as a happy hobo&#x27;s ration very present from cartoons. But a better candidate would relate to butter perhaps. Or how about &quot;Shank&quot;, cog. Ger. &quot;Schinken&quot; (ham), &quot;Schenkel&quot; (thighs), as something two sided, angled. Anyone reminded of John Connery? That&#x27;s ridiculous. How about &quot;to send for&quot; - Ger. &quot;gemachte Brote&quot;. I mean, there was a time and place where ... wasn&#x27;t common and bread had been eaten raw or at least separately (... &quot;Belag&quot; - topping, coating).<p>[1] Wiki Commons has a picture of a ca. 8000 years old specimen in the form of a Spitzwecke <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Datei:Spitzweck_Reko_Ovegönne.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Datei:Spitzweck_Reko_Oveg�%B...</a><p>[2] from Latin canthus (“tire, edge of a wheel”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye, tire, etc.”). The Greek is not certain, maybe from Celtic or if that seems implausible not Indo European.<p>[3] While I don&#x27;t like anyone prescribing as if they were they majesty, I still dislike the descriptive approach that labels anything as correct that randomly comes up in the mash up of dialects. I&#x27;m especially weary of misunderstandings becoming fashionable.