straight or angled. Question of the ages?

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Well this has come up time and time again in our home. My mom did it one way, My wife's mother did it another. How do you do it?

How do you cut a sandwitch? DO you cut it at an angle and get 2 triangle pieces or do you cut it longways and get 2 rectangle pieces.

-- Gary in Ohio (gws@columbus.rr.com), February 07, 2002

Answers

The cornor to cornor method is taught in chef schools, labled as to be having more class.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 07, 2002.

May I add to your question, Gary?

Or, do you do like my former in-laws did and don't cut it at all and stuff it in your mouth whole? Not kidding, they did! LOL!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), February 07, 2002.


Having picky little eaters, I cut it into 4's, diagonally, to make more of the non-crust area easily available. It also keeps the peanut butter from getting all over their faces as they try to stuff the whole thing in (eat faster, get back outside faster).

-- Dawn (olsoncln@ecenet.com), February 07, 2002.

Well, I guess I've done it all of these ways, but I'm with Dawn for cutting it for the little ones:)

-- mary (marylgarcia@aol.com), February 07, 2002.

I cut mine corner to corner - just looks prettier that way! When my kids were small, I did cut a sandwich in quarters also and still do that now for my grandchildren.

-- Barb in Ky. (bjconthefarm@yahoo.com), February 07, 2002.


No real preference here! But I did read a little hint. Say you are going on a picnic and making 2 kinds of sandwiches, cut one kind one way and the other kind the opposite. That way you know instatnly which kind is which, without having to open the sandwich.

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), February 07, 2002.

Great idea,Melissa!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), February 07, 2002.

Corner to corner for grilled cheese. Everything else I leave whole, eat the crust first so I have a round sandwich. Strange when you think about it!

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), February 07, 2002.

Corner to corner-------it is one of my pet peaves if I am served a sandwich at resturant---& it isn't cut from corner to corner----just ticks me off---ha!!

The only way to serve a sandwich from a business is corner to corner-- - & then maybe corner to corner again!!!

I would never dream of serving a sandwich to anyone any other way!!!!

-- Sonda in Ks. (sgbruce@birch.net), February 07, 2002.


My mom always did it in square fourths for little kids, and rectangle halves for olders. I followed suit usually, but sometimes do it in triangles. I do like the triangles better, but somehow was not able to break the square tradition (no pun intended).

For kids that didn't like crusts (usually a babysitted kid, not one of us), my mom would cut the sandwiches with a cookie cutter. Sometimes she did the same for us, but we usually ate the crusts, too.

Jo, I never dreamed that anybody else eats a sandwich like I do! I eat the crust first, and continue going around in circles so that the center bite is last.

-- Cathy N. (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), February 07, 2002.



My mother, the proverbial Boston snob, instructed me about 40 years ago that "Only peasants cut the bread in haaaalf, refined persons SLICE the bread diagonally." Suffice it to say I have been cutting the bread in half all my life.

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), February 07, 2002.

Ahhh, one of life's pondering questions! Being of the Martha Stewart persuasion -- corner to corner, of course!

-- Karen (mountains_mama@hotmail.com), February 08, 2002.

Why do you cut sandwiches if you are eating it all yourself?

-- Angabooguk in Barrow (kg2@hotmail.com), February 08, 2002.

Some of us do not have theeth and have to gum it to death!!!

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 10, 2002.

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