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.

Do Americans have toast? If so, please tell me they have butter on that!

Another factor is the difference in our electricity. It takes longer for an electric kettle to boil in the US than the ones that you have in the UK.

Dp is American and doesn't cut sandwiches in half. Doesn't do butter either. Weird folk!

Of course we have toast. And because we have all those different varieties of bread, toast options are seemingly endless. My favorite is Cuban bread toasted with lots a butter.

What?!?!?

Why would they put butter on toast but NOT on sandwiches

That's fucking nuts - it's like they forgot toast was bread .....

Fucking weirdos

Sadly, we also don't have back bacon, or at the very least it's difficult to find. We have streaky bacon. But my very favorite British food item is a bacon roll. And I like butter on that. Food of the gods.

No kettles and their traffic lights just hang from the electric wire instead of having a proper post. Weirdos.

Ah yes - the food always looks so much better in those than our plastic tubs.

Of course they have toast. In the films you see the overworked father crashing through the front door in the morning, with loving wife ramming a slice of toast in his mouth at the last second. Surely buttered?!

Un. buttered. Sandwiches.

I'm going to bed. I can't.

I've worked in a sandwich shop in the US, they were always cut in half and stabilized with frilly toothpicks.
No butter, we didn't have any in the shop actually. No one ever asked though.

Not the kettle thing again please...

Ah so it is a thing! I can actually see the point of you have a multi ingredient sandwich that things escape from if cut in half.
I will test tomorrow...

This post made me laugh out loud!

Are you my mother in law reincarnated?

Oh you’re absolutely right! I do remember this when I first came here in ‘95 and lived off Indian takeaway. Why I’ve forgotten about those foil boxes is for my ageing brain to answer. But of course I remember this now because curries would kind of stain those foil boxes and for some weird reason, I liked this.

To my bemusement those Chinese takeout-style containers were what people were eating strawberries and cream from at Wimbledon this year! They looked incredibly inefficient as the sides were just too high and square and people were fishing around awkwardly to scoop out the fruit and cream.

Maybe they've been serving them like that for years and I’ve only just happened to see it on TV, but it seemed all wrong. When I went (admittedly a good few years ago) you got a bowl.

This thread is making me hungry and it is close to dinner time here. I just asked DH to make grilled cheese sandwiches. This does involve butter on the outside of the sandwich.

You can have a stove top kettle for making tea.

When I lived in the US electric kettles weren’t a thing.

A bacon sandwich is the only sort that doen’t need butter, indeed is nicer without it. Dip the bread in the pan instead.

And don’t buy sandwiches because the bread is always the kind of stuff that you could dig up in a landfill in 30 years time and it will still look the same as the day it was buried.

Isn't Canadian bacon the same as what you get in the UK?

I like brown sauce on a bacon sandwich personally.

It's true, though you can get dishes in rectangular plastic containers too, black on the bottom, clear on top. Any rice that comes with your meal will be in a white box.

There are massive houses and swanky apartments, but most people live in quite ordinary homes. Look up "Chicago bungalow" and "Chicago two flat" or "three flat" for an example of older style housing that millions live in in at least one major US city. In rural America, prefabricated houses on a slab of cement are ubiquitous.

Butter goes on toast and melts in nicely.

Mayo goes on bread because it's a much nicer, softer, complement to most sandwich fillings than butter is.

Have you ever noticed that Subway do not butter their sandwiches? That is why I won’t eat there. When I asked about it, they said they would butter the bread if I brought my own in!!!!

Canadian bacon is a cold cut. It's not what you'd fry for a breakfast.