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  • Sandwiches and toast, Triangles or rectangles??
  • carlos
    Free Member

    Making sandwiches this morning I cut them into rectangles (side to side across the narrowest length) but whenever I make toast its always longest angle from corner to corner.

    Must be a subconscious thing

    Just a random thought that I wanted to share

    IHN
    Full Member

    Sandwiches – rectangles
    Toast- uncut

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Triangular toast is for toffs.

    shermer75
    Free Member

    Triangular = holidays only 🙂

    binners
    Full Member

    IHN is entirely correct. Theres only one thing triangular that should be involved in the making of toast

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Cut diagonal for me, horizontal for the OH. Otherwise, holy wars.

    Oh, and I cut sandwiches horizontally, otherwise stuff falls out of the floppy corners.

    CharlieMungus
    Free Member

    Mmmm toast

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    With rectangles you can have the bottom of the loaf or the top, or both.

    With triangles, you can only have the top or the bottom.

    With regular quarters, you have no choice, it’s either soft or crusty, you can’t have both.

    Diagonal quarters mean you can ignore the top/bottom dilemma and just eat the sides.

    munro
    Free Member

    Rectangular always for everything – primarily I can’t stand the diagonal cut on a sandwich, always leads to filling loss particularly on salad componentry.
    Square cut toast is superior for mopping bean juice post fry up and builds a better bacon +x butty at the start of aforementioned breakfast.

    steve-g
    Free Member

    Toast triangles
    Sandwiches triangles, except for Fish Finger sandwiches, or packed lunch sandwiches which will need to travel which are rectangles

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Rectangles for the boys, triangles for the girls ….in our house.

    makecoldplayhistory
    Free Member

    You were bang on OP. Rectangular sandwiches and triangular toast.

    TheWrongTrousers
    Full Member

    Triangles.
    Only get one full corner that way instead of two of the things.
    Not a big fan of the corner bit, dry and chewy.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    But rectangles provides an alternative hand position?

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    Cutting ? Sounds like a time waste to me.

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    Both uncut. It’s food, not art, just bloody eat it.

    PeterPoddy
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    Rectangles. Triangles are for ponces and southerners.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    Rectangles. It’s more efficient as it takes less time and the knife stays sharper for longer.

    akira
    Full Member

    I’d say it depends on the filling. Loose filling is rectagonal, sticky filling is triangular. But not sure why….

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Triangles.
    Only get one full corner that way instead of two of the things

    But you get two half corners which have presumably been cut from one of the other soggy corners.

    mahalo
    Full Member

    triangles. perfect for dunking in soup, vimto, hoarded mcdonalds curry sauce packets etc.

    TheWrongTrousers
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    But you get two half corners which have presumably been cut from one of the other soggy corners.

    You do, but half a corner’s a bit easier to stomach than a full corner

    PeterPoddy
    Free Member

    You’re arguing the toss about corners. Have a word with yourselves!
    If it’s that bad you’re eating really crap bread or the filling is lacklustre

    binners
    Full Member

    If you tried to cut this into triangles it’d headbutt you….

    alexpalacefan
    Full Member

    My Mum calls triangles ‘party sandwiches’.

    For me, triangles if eating at home, rectangles for a pack-up.

    Toast? Triangles every time.

    APF

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    The Wrong Trousers – Member

    You do, but half a corner’s a bit easier to stomach than a full corner

    Half as easy?

    Think of the other corner as a butter plinth, if it helps.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    If you tried to cut this into triangles it’d headbutt you….

    Pffft! Soft, southern bread. 😉

    It’s actually impossible to cut a Mothers Pride Plain outsider into any sort of triangle.

    jimdubleyou
    Full Member

    Triangles = “Sunday Cut” Sandwiches or Toast.

    I go crazy with my sandwiches and cut across from the two long sides at an angle.

    binners
    Full Member

    Now that looks like bread that is made specifically to contain chips, and be then used to mop up chippy gravy

    I’m bloody starving now, and I want a chip butty 😥

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Now that looks like bread that is made specifically to contain chips,

    Nah, it was produced in conjunction with the makers of square lorne sausage in order to produce the perfect breakfast of champions…… “A piece an’ square sausage”*

    * Broon or Rid sauce optional.

    binners
    Full Member

    Now, you see…. thats intelligent use of design if ever I saw it. Inspired!

    thestabiliser
    Free Member

    I had a Lorne sausage sandwich for £1 at one of the campsites in Peebles, even through the fog and desperation of a monumental hangover it was quite the most revolting “meat” thing I have ever eaten.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    That’s beautiful.
    Minimalist even.

    Anything else along the same lines you’re keeping quiet about?

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Anything else along the same lines you’re keeping quiet about?

    Munchy boxes……but I can’t tell you about it or Binners might have some sort of seizure.

    Yak
    Full Member

    thestabiliser – banned from Scotland 🙂

    LadyGresley
    Free Member

    I’ve never even considered cutting either into triangles, how very common!!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Rectangles. It’s more efficient as it takes less time and the knife stays sharper for longer.

    Curse you, I now can’t un-realise that!

    carlos
    Free Member

    binners – Member
    If you tried to cut this into triangles it’d headbutt you….

    Have you tried Roberts Mega Thick White Bread, 11 slices to a loaf!! Struggle to get it in the toaster but makes a hell of a sausage and cheese buttie 😀

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    If you ever contemplate cutting a sandwich or toast of mine in any way other than straight across the narrowest part then I will personally escort you to hell and ask Lucifer for his sharp pointy thing.
    He won’t be getting it back though……

    oldmanmtb
    Free Member

    Ciabatta no cutting required just insert bacon and Stilton consumed in one hand

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