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🥪How do you cut your sandwich?🥪 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 OP
Horizontally... FalloutShelter Oct 2022 #1
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #2
I use a cookie cutter. It's a circle. onecaliberal Oct 2022 #3
😳 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #4
I prefer diagonally, but.... LisaM Oct 2022 #5
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #7
I employ a two hand rip rurallib Oct 2022 #6
🫣 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #9
Usually not at all unless it's grilled cheese. Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #8
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #10
The diagonal cut is geometrically superior Shermann Oct 2022 #11
Butt...did you get any chips? underpants Oct 2022 #14
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #32
Diagonal Tree-Hugger Oct 2022 #12
I agree. Not only does it taste better but Polly Hennessey Oct 2022 #21
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:9 democratic2021 Oct 2022 #43
Parallel to the cutting board underpants Oct 2022 #13
😏 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #34
Like a true American, Diagonally n/t Yavin4 Oct 2022 #15
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #35
Diagonally Glorfindel Oct 2022 #16
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #36
What????You elitists with your "utensils"!!! LakeArenal Oct 2022 #17
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #37
With a knife uppityperson Oct 2022 #18
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Cut? Heresy! EYESORE 9001 Oct 2022 #19
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #39
All of the above wendyb-NC Oct 2022 #20
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #44
I cut it in fours Marthe48 Oct 2022 #22
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #45
I don't cut it at all. cksmithy Oct 2022 #23
😢 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #46
When I was a kid, my mom always Cairycat Oct 2022 #24
😃 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #47
Popular Mechanics weighs in: sl8 Oct 2022 #25
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #48
Husband recently made me a pbj and cut it horizontally. MLAA Oct 2022 #26
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #49
Vertical for wet; diagonal for dry nuxvomica Oct 2022 #27
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Not at all - Conjuay Oct 2022 #28
🫣 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #51
Not at all n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2022 #29
😳 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #52
Diagonally, of course ironflange Oct 2022 #30
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Never, ever, cut sandwiches on a diagonal... Brother Buzz Oct 2022 #31
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Ventrally Xipe Totec Oct 2022 #40
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Ooh, cut sandwiches. Fancy. tanyev Oct 2022 #41
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I don't Mr. Scorpio Oct 2022 #42
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I cut it in arcs, using my teeth. JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2022 #58
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Horizontally debm55 Oct 2022 #59
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #64
Hey Floyd debm55 Oct 2022 #68
With my teeth. Iggo Oct 2022 #60
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2022 #65
Diagonally AuntieKatie Oct 2022 #61
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By using the power of prayer. LuckyCharms Oct 2022 #62
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Sometimes I use Trump's magic wand and it's "cut" debm55 Oct 2022 #69

Shermann

(7,422 posts)
11. The diagonal cut is geometrically superior
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 04:07 PM
Oct 2022

You can fan out the two halves on the plate to make room for an assload of chips.

The horizontal-cutting crazies get their chips all up in the sandwich making a big mess.

Polly Hennessey

(6,798 posts)
21. I agree. Not only does it taste better but
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 05:24 PM
Oct 2022

it is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. 😋 And the chips part is true.

Marthe48

(16,963 posts)
22. I cut it in fours
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 05:38 PM
Oct 2022

then cut 2 of the squares into triangles. So my granddaughter could get squares and triangles.

cksmithy

(231 posts)
23. I don't cut it at all.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 06:01 PM
Oct 2022

When I ate sandwiches I did use a diagonal cut, but as a celiac sufferer and have never found a gluten free bread that isn't full of other ingredients that upset my stomach. I have had a stomach ache since I could ever remember, then went gluten free around 2017, I was born in 1951, now I do not have daily stomach aches, diarrhea, (I know too much info but it is true). Now 60+ years later I can eat food that I enjoy and not get sick. When our children were young definitely diagonal, again small triangles.

Cairycat

(1,706 posts)
24. When I was a kid, my mom always
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 06:36 PM
Oct 2022

cut sandwiches horizontally, but I preferred the diagonal cut I'd get in restaurants. So I've always cut sandwiches diagonally.

When my kids were little, I'd cut the diagonal halves in half, position the points of two triangles together, and called it a "butterfly sandwich", which they seemed to like.

sl8

(13,780 posts)
25. Popular Mechanics weighs in:
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 06:40 PM
Oct 2022
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a32690399/triangles-rectangles-best-way-cut-sandwich-math/

Triangles vs. Rectangles: What's the Better Way to Cut a Sandwich?
Which shape gives you the best bite? Our math definitively settles the debate.

BY CAROLINE DELBERT
PUBLISHED: MAY 28, 2020

MLAA

(17,295 posts)
26. Husband recently made me a pbj and cut it horizontally.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 07:21 PM
Oct 2022

I swear it just didn’t taste right! The answer is diagonal, and in an emergency a vertical cut will do, but horizontal? No, that just isn’t right.

nuxvomica

(12,426 posts)
27. Vertical for wet; diagonal for dry
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 08:17 PM
Oct 2022

So egg salad, tuna fish, PB&J, all vertical because it has the smallest cut edge, reducing leakage; cold cuts, diagonal for easier mouth insertion.

Brother Buzz

(36,439 posts)
31. Never, ever, cut sandwiches on a diagonal...
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 09:11 PM
Oct 2022

because you create two triangles, each with two pointy corners that could puncture your guts

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,343 posts)
58. I cut it in arcs, using my teeth.
Sat Oct 15, 2022, 10:02 AM
Oct 2022

And my preferred place to eat is leaning over the kitchen sink. Anything that falls will be rinsed down the disposal unit.

Speaking of which, it's almost lunch time ...

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