Ah, but Ash has caught a rice ball in a Poké Ball. This suggests that rice balls are actually Pokémon. If that's the case, something has been done to the Pokémon to give it the appearance of a rice ball. The answer, of course, is that the Pokémon has been affected by the status condition "Sandwiched", since rice balls are sometimes called sandwiches in the dub. Therefore, it's possible to have a sandwich be a status.
PokéBeach.com Forums
Jabberwock
bbninjas
But I thought 'this' was this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/this