My boss “went against years of convention and bought into the powerful weiner- industry lobby’s hype.”

And the controversy did not end there.

Courier- Journal columnist Joseph Gerth called the corrections and the very notion that a hot dog is not a sandwich “fake news.”

Gerth wrote that his boss “went against years of convention and bought into the powerful weiner- industry lobby’s hype and decided that a hot dog is not, in fact, a sandwich.”

“A sandwich is nothing more than bread and some sort of filling — sometimes peanut butter, or egg salad, or even watercress — and any accompanying condiments or vegetables,” he wrote. “Unless you’re one of those food snobs who argues that hot dogs aren’t really meat, it’s impossible to say it’s anything but a sandwich.”

As Gerth noted, the question of whether a hot dog is a sandwich has been divisive for years, and attempts to settle the score have popped up countless times.

In 2015, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council concluded that a hot dog is not a sandwich. A year later, Merriam- Webster tweeted in opposition, saying simply that “the hot dog is sandwich.”

“We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. But given that the definition of a sandwich is ‘ two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between,’ there is no sensible way around it.” the dictionary said in a statement.

Frankly, this debate is going nowhere.