As if I needed an excuse to eat Chick-Fil-A.

The candidate: The Chicken Biscuit from Chick-Fil-A, which counts as breakfast at Chick-Fil-A.

The construction: A fried white-meat chicken cutlet on a biscuit. That’s all.

Arguments for sandwich-hood: It’s a piece of meat sandwiched between two pieces of a form of bread. You can pick it up with your hands. It is at least as much about the chicken (the inside) as it is about the biscuit (the outside), so it doesn’t violate the bagel/cream-cheese rule.

Counter-arguments: I’m not even sure. I guess that it’s on a biscuit, and a biscuit isn’t regular bread? Also, it’s not called a sandwich

How it tastes: Pretty good, though not quite up to the standards of the regular Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich, if you ask me. The biscuit, while amazing, is so buttery and rich that it actually sogs the chicken cutlet a little, so the fried part of the cutlet doesn’t really maintain any of its chicken-fried crispiness.

The breading instead just sort of attaches to the biscuit and thickens the outer layer of soft, greasy breadstuff, which doesn’t do much for diversity of texture. There’s a salty, mushy, buttery outside and a piping hot, moist, chickeny inside. It’s great, don’t get me wrong, and it’s fantastic that someone has decided I can eat this for breakfast. But the straight-up chicken sandwich provides so much more. Like pickles.

What it’s worth: $4.85 including tax with a large coffee and hash browns.

The verdict: This is definitely a sandwich. I’d love to indulge the people who believe otherwise by paying some mind to the counter-argument, but I’m not sure I even understand what it is. Because it’s on a biscuit?

“Biscuit” itself can be a pretty vague term, and are we really going to distinguish between the way the bread product for a sandwich is prepared when the ultimate effect is clearly sandwich? And if we’re excluding sandwiches on biscuits, how many other obvious sandwich-meat delivery vehicles would we have to exclude?

No, it’s a sandwich. Meat between two pieces of bread, regardless of what the bread is called. Don’t overthink this.