In my world, calling cereal a soup is like calling a grape an apple. Soup is not an encompassing category, soup is a genericized standalone object, along the lines of a platonic form. The same is true of a hot dog. When we reference a BLT as a sandwich, it is simply referencing the generic, rather than the specific, it’s like referencing a tissue rather than a kleenex.

Within this framework, there are no real sandwiches. There is no real soup. That utensil you might eat it with? Not real either, champ.