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"Bunny Chow" as a term pre-dates 1948; the Local history Museum in Durban has a reference from the early 1940s. I suggest that the Bania's preference for foods that had never touched meat was the source, as Kapitan's could serve a takeaway that was guaranteed meat free.
This article had a condiment stub and a condiment category assigned to it. It is not something which is added to a meal as a condiment is. It is a full dish. Hence the removal
Loyola11:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)reply
And also in the 'Ou Transvaal'
I remember sitting on the curb with my feet in the gutter enjoying a Bunny Chow, outside of a ubiquitous Greek cafe in Pretoria, South Africa in the '70s. In those years it was a popular dish around the country, or at least in the cities. — Preceding
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41.243.74.196 (
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18:59, 18 August 2011 (UTC)reply
I'm inclined to say no. This article never describes this dish using the word 'sandwich', and none of its references use that word to describe it either (admittedly it was a quick skim of the book refs, for the web articles I could ctrl-F). The closest anything comes is the
BBC Food article, which notes that Bunny Chow may be popular because "people ... are tired of having a cold sandwich", which seems to suggest that Bunny Chow is not a sandwich in comparison (or, it could be interpreted that it is a 'hot' sandwich, but the article never says directly). Seems to fail
WP:CATDEF.
Antepenultimate (
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22:19, 28 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Yeah, it doesn't really seem like a sandwich to me. As a categorization, it's close enough to at least be sort of useful, though. Are there any other dishes that would fit in
Category:Bread bowls? I can't think of any. There's some relationship to
open sandwich too, but that's only slightly closer. Starting
Category:Open sandwiches might be a good idea, though.
Grayfell (
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22:44, 28 September 2015 (UTC)reply
If a 'bread dishes' category were to be made, this would certainly be an appropriate addition. Most sources seem to generally describe it as '
street food' or a '
take away' food item, so
Category:Street food may be an option here. Several sources mentioned that it is almost exclusively sold as take-out or from street vendors.
Antepenultimate (
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23:00, 28 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Okay, done. The category is now populated, and I removed 'sandwiches' from this article. There's always room for debate with categories, but this seems a lot clearer to me.
Grayfell (
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01:59, 29 September 2015 (UTC)reply