Sandwiches - Trianglular or Rectangular. You Decide

Fanny Wank

Just had a sandwich from Spar at lunch. My mother used to always cut the bread down the middle making 2 rectangular sandwiches and i never complained, they were always good sandwiches.

However anytime I get a sandwich in a shop its cut from top right hand corner to bottom left hand corner as you all know. They just taste better. maybe I'm mad, but i think they do.

Why do triangular sandwiches taste better ?

Which shape do you prefer?

cance

if this gets you thinking you need more responsibility.

CountryWise

They cut them that way in shops to make them look bigger!

digitally-yours

Rectangular

Trianglular

As demonstrated below

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Rectangular

I agree, thats the fancy way of cutting them!

star-pants

Rectangular

Funnily enough -- I agree.... Triangular taste better (in the mind or what I don't know) but I'm disappointed if I cut it in half retangularly by mistake.

digitally-yours

Rectangular

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Orange69

Rectangular

Pythagoras would be encouraged with these results!

Peared

Its gotta be triangular with no crusts. Too much chewin and not enough fillin in the crusts. Plus dark crusts taste like burnt.

uncle ernie

banana sandwiches - rectangle
all other types - triangle

admiralofthefleet

Rectangular

we cut them into 4 triangles in work and i prefer triangular myself but if someone gave me a rectalgular sambo i wouldnt care less

Jesus Wept

Rectangular

Peared wrote: »

Its gotta be triangular with no crusts. Too much chewin and not enough fillin in the crusts. Plus dark crusts taste like burnt.

Sure crusts are more filling!

I agree with star-pants, triangular sandwiches taste better, it's a known fact.

Peared

I shudda been more specific The Rigger, I meant not enough sambo filling.

Orange69

Rectangular

uncle ernie wrote: »

banana sandwiches - rectangle
all other types - triangle

True. Banana is an exception to the rule.

The structural integrity of a banana sandwich would be compromised by a triangular cut.

star-pants

Rectangular

uncle ernie wrote: »

banana sandwiches - rectangle
all other types - triangle

Orange69 wrote: »

True. Banana is an exception to the rule.

The structural integrity of a banana sandwich would be compromised by a triangular cut.

Very valid points... it's very true...

watna

Rectangular

Triangular ftw! I went out for a pub lunch today and had a "hot joint sandwich" which is a sandwich with some of the carvery meat in it. it was gorgeous and made all the better by the fact that the nice sandwich making lady cut it in to triangles without being asked (I always ask them to when getting sandwiches). Plus, I could swear I was sitting next to Bill Bryson!

AlmightyCushion

I prefer them to not be cut at all.

Fanny Wank

Rectangular

In relation to banana sandwiches, I'm not really a fan but can see where people are coming from. Another exception is a crisp sandwich. I get a single slice of bread, cover half of it in crisps and then just fold it over. Ends up in a rectangular shape. Quite tasty too. To try fold it into a triangular shape would be too much hard work while the whole concept of cutting crisp sandwiches is, to put it frankly, ridiculous.

Jesus Wept

Rectangular

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I prefer them to not be cut at all.

Well your just a savage from Sligo, aren't you.

Tar.Aldarion

Who the f*ck in ireland eats sandwiches these days, poncey bagels ftw

death to triangles!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orange69

Rectangular

A sausage sandwich would also cause an exception..

The protocol here is to roll the bread around the sausage, forming a sort of bread 'coat' surrounding the meaty interior.

We should start a taxonomy of sandwich making.

Fanny Wank

Rectangular

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

death to triangles!!!!!!!!!!!!

there's always one

A sandwich heretic!!!!

Fanny Wank

Rectangular

Orange69 wrote: »

A sausage sandwich would also cause an exception..

The protocol here is to roll the bread around the sausage, forming a sort of bread 'coat' surrounding the meaty interior.

good call

philstar

Rectangular

trianglular sandwiches are for protestants:p

connundrum

Often times we would have a full sandwich, then push a cup down on the middle of it which would leave a circle shaped sandwich. You could only do this with a sugar/jam/penut butter sandwich as other fillings would make it messy.

Circle ftw!

im_invisible

i prefer sandwiches i make myself rectangular,
bought in a shop, triangular,
but if they're toasted, i prefer to cut them at an angle, not from corner to corner, but not straight across either, but thats just me

Jesus Wept

Rectangular

Orange69 wrote: »

A sausage sandwich would also cause an exception..

The protocol here is to roll the bread around the sausage, forming a sort of bread 'coat' surrounding the meaty interior.

We should start a taxonomy of sandwich making.

Nonsense, that's just an option, a lazy one too.

You can make triangular sausage sandwiches, and of course, they taste better.

onechewy

Rectangular

I always got rectangular samwidges in school and I used to get jealous of the other 'cool' girls with their fancy triangular ones. I don't know why I never asked for them to be cut triangular..?

They definately are tastier though, and also, it's a known fact that odd numbers are more aesthetically pleasing than even, so in sandwidge world, 3 corners looks nicer than 4!

jobonar

Rectangular

Has to be triangles, rectanlges just dont taste the same....its strange, but its a fact off life.

5starpool

Who the f*ck in ireland eats sandwiches these days, poncey bagels ftw

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I prefer them to not be cut at all.

If I make them myself I prefer them to just be stuff between 2 slices of bread as well, none of this fancy cutting lark.

Maybe Rig is right and it is a Sligo thing?

Orange69

Rectangular

The-Rigger wrote: »

Nonsense, that's just an option, a lazy one too.

You can make triangular sausage sandwiches, and of course, they taste better.

You'll find that any attempt to make a triangular sausage sandwich will fall fowl to the same issues inherent with a banana sandwich...

It a common misjudgment made by those uneducated in the sandwich arts