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.

No! Bacon and chives would be good, you can keep the sour cream though - filthy stuff.

Oh, dear. 😔

Isn’t a Ding-Ding/Ding-Dong essentially what we in the UK know as a Wagon-wheel?

Re butter - some packs here do have little lines on the wrapping to help with cutting off roughly the right amount, but you can generally eyeball it. We don’t have the quarter-pound 'sticks' though, I suppose because we weigh our ingredients rather than use the cup method (and one stick of butter is half a cup, is that right?).

Sorry! I just don’t like any sort of cream anyway.

In New York a few years ago DH and I went to one of the delis famous for bagels and ordered classic “lox” with cream cheese. I remember they had massive tubs of all sorts of flavoured cream cheese behind the counter, like an ice-cream parlour. We were really surprised at how thickly they spread it though- it was about an inch thick! I love cream cheese but ended up having to take quite a lot of it off. (Think the name for spreading cream cheese is a “schmear”, right?”)

I can't eat butter or marg, and hate mayo, so am buggered on the sandwich front!
But the size of their deli sandwiches borders on perverse. Surely no-one has that big an appetite!

But there is no butter with the beef (sandwiches)...

You mean like the massive amount of salt beef somewhere like Katz’s deli? I agree, it’s insane.

Reuben

I couldn't see if this had been covered already, but I discovered on a Facebook post a while ago that while Americans do cut their sandwiches, they cut them the "wrong" way - so top to bottom I stead of across.... (diagonally works in all countries obvs)

Not being a SPaG gremlin, but gently, it's laundry chutes
Laundry shoots are a whole new take!!

Trying again with the Reuben pic

I did correct myself two posts afterwards 😅 agree laundry shoots has a whole other meaning!

@TimeandMotion that's why you order half a sandwich and a soup at Katz's.

@Conniethecatapillar
I have a great mental image of how this is playing out in an American apartment block...!
Apologies, I didn't see your correction. No offence meant 😊

mmmm, Katz's pastrami! Or the hot brisket sandwich, divine.

But they go over the top; Americans like a generous sandwich but even a native New Yorker will say Katz's sandwiches are ridiculous.

Yes, you have a schmear of cream cheese. I like scallion (spring onion) myself. My maternal grandparents lived in New York and we would visit them every couple of years. I loved getting bagels and lox.

Best sandwiches we used to buy in the US were BBQ Tri tip in a big hoagie roll, I used to take half home for later. The meat was freshly cooked each day outside the local grocery store by Ds's friend from school. The smell covered the parking lot and was delicious.
My kids all took PB&J to school on a regular basis, especially good in the heat as it didn't need to be kept cold like anything with Mayo But I still froze Caprisun juice drinks and put them in their lunch box as an ice block.

Was the inch thick schmear unusual then? Or do New Yorkers like it that way?

I do remember they weren’t cheap so feels like the massive amount of CC was priced in.

Not everyone likes such a thick layer, but it's expected I would say.

The more people try hard to rubbish Americans the more I want to move there. Can’t wait! I find the British more narrow minded even thought they think they are the salt of the earth. May be colonialist past or wherever. Why deepen into the debate I would just go 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I posted to explore differences in our cultures not to rubbish Americans.

Thanks for the comments everyone - so interesting!

I'm sure your motives were fine. Unfortunately, the rubbishers can't resist any time there's a thread related to the U.S. on Mumsnet. It's a sequela of lost empire syndrome.

What peanut butter should we be buying? I like it greasy and chunky(!) so tend to go for supermarket own brand or M And S. Nearly bought Skippy chunky today as we used to enjoy the smooth version. Anyone have a definitive verdict?!
Disclaimer- I’ve never had PB and J either so what UK jam/jelly works best? Thanks.

Sounds like you want natural peanut butter, you have to mix it up because the oil settles on top. Nothing is added to except salt.

As a kid we used to have peanut butter and syrup sarmies. I went to a boarding school and at every single break we had a choice. Peanut butter and syrup from pile 1, peanut butter and jam (it's was always mixed fruit smooth jam) from pile 2 or from pile 3 - peanut butter.

I don't eat peanut butter sarmies now.

But peanut butter and syrup was a common combination. I say was as there is not a chance I could eat one now. The syrup crystallized sometimes and you would get a crunch you weren't expecting 😃.

We had some strange offerings at school. They would cut up the oranges and sprinkle salt on them. To make them sweeter they said. Not in the US, but I am wondering where that idea came from originally.