Sandwiches

Really?!? This is wild! 😂😂😂

But the initial artwork was two slices of bread...which have been subdivided. Hence if I ask for two sandwiches I expect it to be made with 4 slices of bread. Natch, they can be cut in halves or quarters and if one is feeling posh the crusts removed. But 2 sarnis= 4 slices of bread

A couple would be four slices of bread

@sweeneytoddsrazor It seems very regional, whereabouts are you? I need to know where to avoid asking for disappointingly truncated sandwich portions.

2 pcs of bread = 1 sandwich.

2 pcs of bread cut into 16 sqaures is not suddenly 32 sandwiches.

My MIL insists that 2 pcs of bread and filling, cut in half, is 4 sandwiches and this is only one of the reasons she drives me intensely insane.

couple of sandwiches, i would expect 4 slices of bread..

if you made a sandwich with 2 slices of bread (1 sandwich) and cut it into 4, you wouldn't say you ate 4 sandwiches..

1 sandwich - 2 slices bread sandwiched together.

I like a hawf piece on cheese. Especially on plain breed 🍞 😋

I don’t think I’ve ever been asked for more than one sandwich at a time. If I was asking my husband what he wanted for lunch I’d say do you want a sandwich and if he said yes I’d say do you want one or two?

I’m still not getting the cafe thing at all. You said (I think, can’t go back and check now) that in a cafe sandwiches would be two slices of bread but a toastie would be four? Or do you mean it would be cut into four? This is the part of the post that makes the least sense.

In a cafe, ‘a sandwich’ is made with two slices of bread, whether toasted or not. Some lunch menus do a ‘soup and half sandwich’ combo, which is one slice or half of a two-slice sandwich.

It’s definitely you that’s strange, op!

Not necessarily. Many people can eat two sandwiches. Not everyone is filled up with just one.

What do toasted sandwiches have to do with anything

2 slices of bread = one sandwich
2 slices of bread made into one sandwich and toasted still = one sandwich

That was one cheese sandwich. How disappointing for him.

You made one cheese sandwich and cut it in half. He asked for two.

It's not a sandwich though, it's one half of the sandwich you made and then cut in two.

It's quite strange that if your dh asks you for a couple of cheese sandwiches he only gets 1 sandwich (2 slices of bread) but if he asks for a couple of toasted cheese sandwiches you give him 2 sandwiches (4 slices of bread).

A couple of sandwiches means 2 sandwiches, using 4 slices of bread, it doesn't matter if the sandwiches are toasted or not.

It's just really baffling to me that because you say some people in your local area have a peculiar way of asking for sandwiches you think sandwiches are different to their toasted version.

If someone were to ask you for a cheese sandwich what would you do?

But, it's bread with something between two pieces of it, thus "sandwich".

Each one of those divided up bits of sandwich is a sandwich in its own right. Bread, with something between.

So what would you have made if he asked for “a cheese sandwich”?

Well, I’m currently sat in a hotel with my 14yr old and both of us are bored - after mentioning this thread, it has initiated quite a heated debate here!

Have to admit, until now I hadn’t given it a lot of thought. However my son quite adamantly says defo two slices of bread = 1 sandwich and I think I agree.

Although, incidently, when doing cheese toasties I do always use 4 slices of bread. Mostly due to the sandwich toaster having enough space for two rounds and why would you heat the toaster just to do one.

This has taken up a lot of thought time 🤣

Love the idea of an “Arf-er” sandwhich though! Genius! 🤣

Also yes, sandwich is starting to look vert odd. Too much sandwich. I grew up in Kent, near Sandwich 😁.

I’m tired, but this thread has ended up blowing my mind.

A sandwich - 2 slices of bread, or a teeny weeny afternoon tea or buffet sandwich...

Sandwiches - a 2 slices of bread sandwich in a lunchbox or multiple mini sandwiches from a buffet or afternoon tea…?

The thing is, I know what all of these things mean. God, English must feel impossible for non-native speakers sometimes, we love tying ourselves in knots.

If I asked for a couple of sandwiches, I’d expect two slices of bread, cut in half. But clearly I’m the odd one!

To me a sandwich is 2 slices of bread and a toastie is the same by default. I don't really understand or recognise the cafe example.

The only time I can picture someone referencing 'a couple of sandwiches' though would be if I was going up to a buffet and would interpet it as picking them up two quarters. I wouldnt expect someone to mean 4 slices of bread although by my own definition that is what it means!

How can it be one sandwich when you've just cut the sandwich you made into two halves though? If you didn't cut it you wouldn't call the original sandwich, two sandwiches?

This is genuinely one of the strangest threads I've ever read surely the definition of a sandwich is something between two slices of bread.