Do Americans not cut their sliced bread sandwiches?

[BurntBroccoli]

I've often noticed that Americans on TV never seem to cut their sandwiches in half ) or quarters like British people.
Is this a thing? Does it depend on the filling?
Do some of you not cut your sandwiches?

Thinking sliced bread type of sarnies here, not baguettes or paninis etc.

You need Mothers Pride in your life. A delicacy in Scotland

They also laughed their heads off when I marvelled at all the different types of bread they had. They said ‘well what do you have in the UK?’ I responded ‘we only have two - brown bread and white bread!

Where on earth do you live, the 1950s?

When I moved to Sweden I couldn't work out why my recipes were not working out - turned out that my local IKEA had sold me a measuring jug where the "pint" was a US pint 16 fl oz rather than a British pint 20 fl oz - who knew they were different?

Although Sweden also uses a cup system for baking - but based on decilitres

Anyone who has ordered draught beer in the US?

'A pint's a pound the world around' - no, not everywhere it isn't.

And I never really understood how you can get butter into a cup.

Agreed, but I found different ml measurements in the cups I found online. Only really matters in baking, I think.

@WagnersFourthSymphony There are measurements printed on the butter wrappers, so you just cut at the apropriate point. Very straightforward.

Garages are the same thing here. I couldn't get a toddler sized, battery-run car into my garage. I am pretty sure, someday, when it gets excavated (cleaned out, dug out, dynamited), they will find dinosaur bones!

I still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. My favorite is on rye bread that has caraway seeds in it, seedless raspberry jam and a dill pickle and chips on the side. But, in a pinch, jut about any basic bread will do. I have been known to put the chips in the sandwich too (oh the horror).

Now I am craving one....LOL!

And did you eat PBJ growing up?

No, because I didn't (and still don't) like peanut butter. But most children, including my siblings, ate lots of PBJ sandwiches. It's still a staple with children and some adults. DH likes peanut butter on toast with a drizzle of honey.

The black are licorice flavored. Not sure which were clove, but perhaps the green ones or the white ones. Loved them growing up. Now, yuck!

It's strange how things I hated as a child, I now love and things I loved as a child, I now cannot stand.

My kids eat peanut butter & jelly but I've never developed a taste for it. I don't like the consistency of peanut butter.

I bake by weight, which is getting more popular amongst serious bakers and I'm fairly deft with converting cup recipes. I have been here long enough to think in sticks of butter, though (1 stick = 4oz with 2 or 4 sticks to the box, and there's measurements on the wrapper to measure tablespoons.) Everyone just 'knows' that a stick is half a cup and it's marked on the wrapper: no one actually packs it in. Like this: https://recipes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/butter-wrapper-measurements.jpg

@Screamingabdabz I don't understand how it could be imagined that a country with a population of over 330 million doesn't have any "nice" butter. We don't put it on sandwiches because it hasn't been our habit. We put it on toast and "jacket" potatoes (which we call baked potatoes) and pasta and a million other things. No doubt some people DO put butter on sandwiches because they like it. The thing about peanut butter and jelly is that the jelly we use is seedless jam, made from the juice of the fruit. We also make peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

I'm not much of a cook, but I do like to bake. I do have kitchen scales, which I sometimes use, but most of the time I am baking my grandmother's recipes so I use cups and other standard US volume measures.

It's a head scratcher for me, too.

We all need to stop talking about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have no good jelly at this time, nor the bread I'd want or pickles. My craving is getting bad.....

Just checked our Tesco butter, no markings here in UK afaik! But it doesn't really matter, I can look up a stick of butter and work it out,

One stick of butter is about 115 grams, 8 Tablespoons and 4 ounces

Americans do great bagels. Cream cheese of course-I've seen them put that on. Sounds nice, but I still prefer butter, and proper cheese sometimes.

Shame about the twinkies! Shattered my illusions there but it seems the general consensus is they suck 😆Shame about that shop closing as well-why is it all the best shops and sweets/chocolate end up getting shut or discontinued 😔

Thank you all for help with the stick of butter, I can now see it as roughly 4oz,, which slightly daftly really helps!

Twinkies used to be good. I am not sure when they changed, but I know a lot of products had to change their recipe because of what was in it. I used to love them, but now they are yuck. Ditto with Snowballs, Ho-Hos, Ding Dongs and most of the rest of the Hostess line. I will eat an occasional Hostess cupcake if I am really craving something chocolatey but not candy.

Yes, we do pretty good bagels. I like either cream cheese or butter. Depends on my mood. The "Everything Bagel" is my favorite. YUM!

I was thinking about Ding Dings, too! What a treat to get one occasionally in my lunch kit. I think the reason none of those "treats" taste as good anymore is that we no longer have an 8 year old's palate. 🤔

I remember liking them even through the 70's, when I was a "grown-up". Then I went a few years without them and one day I wanted one so bad, and it was just different. Gritty and just not good any longer.

Ding-Dongs and Ho-Hos used to use decent chocolate for it's covering, but now it's waxy and the chocolate cake isn't as good. Cream is also very sparse.

If I order a baked/jacket potato in any US eatery, I always ask for butter on the side, instead of that pathetic little blob of sour cream they habitually serve with it. Of course they think I’m weird, but that has never bothered me. 🙂

I'm in Canada. When I was a kid they were called Ding Dongs and wrapped in foil. They must've been imported because wikipedia tells me they are King Dons in Canada and I have seen those in places like 7-11. Tastes change, but I do think you're right that the recipes likely have as well. Twinkies were good back then, too. Ahhh, childhood. Cheers, neighbour. 😊

Have you not had a loaded baked potato? Butter, sour cream, crumbled bacon and chopoed chives. In that order. 😋