I’m wondering if this depends on age? I’m old enough to remember eating at drug store lunch counters. Loved my ham & cheese sandwiches and the grill guy always cut it diagonal with a big 8 inch knife. Most mom & pop cafes served buttered toast cut diagonal. I prefer it that way.
I see a lot of people cutting their sandwich down the middle. That’s fine too. I guess.
I know it’s just bread. But eating those triangles reminds me of my childhood. Memories are all part of enjoying “comfort food”.
How do you want your toast or sandwich cut?
I wanna get it right in case you come by for dinner.
Diagonal is the only sane method of cutting sandwiches and toast. You straight cutting people are all weirdos with no imagination or flare. The no cutters? Well, they should just be locked up.
Most of the sandwiches I eat are at home, and I make goddamn good sandwiches. It’s easiest for me to get the meats and veggies properly portioned if I visualize a line down the middle of the sandwich. I fold the deli meats so that they don’t cross that line, put everything else so that there’s equal quantities on both sides of the line (and mushy things like avocado don’t cross the line), and then when it comes time to cut, you get two self-contained sandwich halves whose fillings don’t fall out everywhere.
So I’m a line-down-the-middle dude. But at a restaurant, I don’t think I care much (but if I did I think I’d go for diagonal).
Depends. if it’s a bulky sandwich, the pointy ends don’t have enough structural integrity to support the filling.
Otherwise, if I’m fixing a sandwich for someone else I’ll cut it diagonally because presentation is important. If it’s my sandwich I don’t cut it at all, but tear it in half and then break bites off.
It depends on the sandwich, who made it, a lot of different things.
For example if I go and have a grilled cheese sandwich in a restaurant, diagonal. But if I make it at home, I don’t cut it all all, I eat it whole because I put more cheese in homemade grilled cheeses than in a typical restaurant grilled cheese.
In general, diagonal. It’s typically a little easier and cleaner to eat. There are some sandwiches where it doesn’t make sense, like egg salad or other messy stuff where the corners may not be sturdy enough if cut diagonally.
When I was a kid, I was raised to cut sandwiches straight across into a quasi-semicircular top half and a rectangular bottom half. When I moved out on my own, I experimented with diagonal slicing, but now I slice my sandwiches into a left half and a right half.
Exception: if I don’t use a knife in the making of my sandwich, I won’t bother cutting it at all.
It really depends on the shape of the bread, and sometimes the filling. White or wheat bread from supermarkets is generally square, and suitable for cutting diagonally. Rye bread is more of a rectangle, and I cut that in a compromise way, it’s not a corner to corner diagonal, but not straight down the middle, either. And of course a sub sandwich has to be cut into manageable lengths. For a pimiento cheese sandwich, I usually just fold over one slice of bread, so that looks like half of a sandwich that’s been cut down the middle.
I’m the same way. At home I’ll cut my hamburger in half. I rarely bother buying buns, so my burger is on sandwich bread and diagonal cut. I feel like I’m eating more with two halves. Just a mind trick I play on myself.
Well, based on the poll results, the diagonal-cutters are hamstrung by convention and conformity, while we straight-cutters are not only practical, but see the beauty in minimalist thinking.
Depends on the sandwich. Chicken salad or turkey gets a straight cut, ham and cheese gets a diagonal. Grilled cheese gets a double diagonal so it’s four little triangles, but a club sandwich is two straight cuts to make 4 squares.
I don’t eat many sandwiches, because it’s complicated.
Good thing that I didn’t ask about cutting off the crust. Has anyone done that since the 1950’s garden parties? I think Beaver Cleaver’s mom did it a few times.
Most mom & pop cafes served buttered toast cut diagonal. I prefer it that way.
