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.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Wait staff do not generally think that their customers are weird--certainly not for asking for butter. It seems to me that one experience somehow defines "all-American food" irrespective of any data to the contrary. I have never had peanut butter with syrup, but I don't deny that someone has had it. We moved to New England and a very common lunch sandwich there was peanut butter on white bread with Marshmallow Fluff. My DM was horrified but we begged hard enough to wear her down.

@SpuytenDuyvil whilst we have a US aisle in many UK supermarkets now, when I was young the only place that sold Marshmallow Fluff was Harvey Nichols!! Also Oreos which are commonplace now but seemed impossibly exotic back then😂

@GellerYeller That is so funny. Marshmallow fluff more commonly known as marshmallow "creme" is available in every average supermarket in the US. People use it to make fudge, especially at Christmastime. And, to go back to the OP, some people cut their sandwiches in half like triangles and some in half like rectangles. My beloved DM was a triangle gal.

Interesting! I seem to recall salt being added to fruit in Pakistan. Also said to improve sweetness (mind you, my parents, who are from Pakistan, also tell me to drink tea to cool down in summer).

All seems counter intuitive but maybe both work. Who knows where your school got the idea from.

But syrup and peanut butter… hum. Cheddar and jam, that’s a combination my brother likes on (sliced) bread (to sort of bring back to the topic ;-) — it’s actually quite nice.

I cut my sandwiches top to bottom - and I'm not an American 😅

Drinking tea to cool down in summer has been a long known suggestion - I first heard it when I was a child.

Honestly my kids think the commercial stuff like Jif is better than natural even if it's less healthy. I will say that if you're using it to bake, the recipes are all tested with that (the kind with oil and sugar added) so don't use the natural.

I use fluff for Rice Krispie treats because it doesn't have gelatine in it like marshmallows.

Thanks to Mexican immigrants we now have Tajín, chile-lime salt, which people sprinkle on fruit, and it's good. You can get frozen mango-tajín bars, too, and shops sell mangonadas, which are pureed mango, chamoy (a kind of sweet and sour Mexican pickled fruit), and chile-lime salt and it's way better than it sounds. I don't think I've seen them in the UK on previous trips back, but maybe they've travelled over now? Really refreshing in summer. We also have trucks selling paletas, Latin-style frozen fruit bars. It's been so hot here, it nearly hit 40C the other day!

DH is American and doesn't cut sandwiches in half.

DS is technically half American and asked me to stop cutting his sandwiches for his packed lunch in half! Is must be in their genes...

@knitnerd90

Mmmm, Tajín. Goes on just about anything lol.

I've never seen the Mango Tajín bars. Are they usually sold in supermercados or tienditas or are you finding them in chain grocery stores.

Although, I'm in Nor Cal and you don't find as many Hispanic grocery stores here as you do in So Cal or any other border state.

We do have paleta carts around, one has homemade Horchata. Yum!

You can get Tajín in the UK at Whole Foods and sometimes lidl.

Sorry if you've rec'd replies already...
In the States, my impression is that a PB&J is quintessentially with grape jelly.
However, growing up here in Canada, ahem, it's peanut butter and jam with the jam typically being strawberry. It's a far superior combo, imho. 😋

Excellent 😁

I think they may well have had cups all those years ago. Only one of my Irish grannies had kitchen scales and they both used trusty teacups and spoons for a good deal of their baking. I suspect that families settling on the prairies in pioneer days would have used cups and spoons too, and kitchen scales might have come much later, once the big mail-order catalog merchants, the advent or railroads, and the establishment of commercially viable agriculture made the purchase of new fangled kitchen equipment possible. Even still, new fangled kitchen equipment might have meant neat, standardised sets of cuos and spoons., and with recipe books being published in the early years of the 20th century, recipes in volume measurements became well established.

DH was always thrilled by the Goober Grape brought over by his US cousins - PB and J swirled together so you don’t even have to open two jars.

As an American I would say grape or strawberry more common for pb&j, but as a kid I loved it with apricot jam - really down to personal preference. Also quite good with blackberry jam.

growing up in the south it was quite common to salt watermelon, but have also seen salted mango (chili) in Mexico and South Asia.

I think I've seen that here, too, but haven't noticed in quite some time.

I’m in California.
I don’t have an electric kettle.
My name is Elizabeth - how d’ you do.
Now you know someone in the US who doesn’t have an electric kettle.

Isn't it so young, pretty women can spill their groceries all over the floor whereupon their kooky, charming neighbour can help them pick them up and then romantic high-jinks ensue?

Jif or Skippy are best and in the UK we use cheap strawberry jam from Aldi it's the right consistency.
I asked my grown boys about the goober grape and peanut butter in a jar, they said they had both tried it when kids at other fronds houses in US and didn't like it.
Marshmallow fluff is the devils food, I have caught Dh eating it from the jar with a spoon.

Had to google "goober grape"
@MrsCarson and laughed a bit. Besides it meaning peanut or fool we sometimes use it to mean the crud in your eyes: eye goobers. "You've got some goobers in your eyes." It would typically be said to a child as you wiped their face/eyes.