Does bread taste better if it's been touched by everyone at the table?

[Cheesesteak]

I’m going to go with the “See it’s NOT leftover bread taken from other tables. It’s fresh bread, just for youse guys.”

If I wanted leftover bread, I’d get the French Onion Soup.

[WhyNot]

Isn’t there an old superstition about cutting bread at the table with a knife “cutting” (ending) a friendship, while breaking bread with your hands ensures a long relationship with those sharing the bread? (Or did I just make that up?)

[corkboard]

@Doug_K

At any restaurant I’ve been to like that the bread is served cut in half on a small cutting board with a bread knife. You don’t tear off a piece, you cut it with the bread knife. If the bread is served in a basket, it’s already sliced, not just cut in half.

What Thudlow Boink said, plus, what restaurants do you go to where they provide you a bread knife? I don’t think I’ve ever used a bread knife to cut my own bread at the table.

[WhyNot]

@corkboard

What Thudlow Boink said, plus, what restaurants do you go to where they provide you a bread knife? I don’t think I’ve ever used a bread knife to cut my own bread at the table.

Lots of them. Outback is the big chain one that I can recall doing it. Well, it’s something of a hybrid bread/steak knife, to be sure, but yes, they bring a large serrated knife with the bread. In fact, many servers willimpale the bread on the knife in the kitchen, so they don’t drop the bread on the way to the table.