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.

Never seen butter on a sandwich, I don’t see the point. Butter on toast for sure. Most people cut their sandwiches.

Electric kettles are sold here, tea just isn’t popular in the US. Most people offer cold drinks to guests or coffee.

Paper bags sometimes have handles, sometimes don’t. It depends on the store.

Traffic lights are dependent on location. My state has traffic lights on big metal poles. My parents state has them on wires, but they get hurricanes there so it makes sense.

Chinese food does come in those little containers, at least in the 4 states I’ve lived in.

I always liked the look of the Chinese takeaways but how practical are they when you order a fried rice, beef and black bean, salt and pepper ribs and sharing a chicken sweet n sour? Not so cute when you're eating out of 4 boxes

Do you mean in America or UK? In UK, most sandwiches are made on flat, thin white or 'wheat' bread, as you describe, which would never be offered as an option here. In the US, there are a myriad of bread choices - indeed, too many your head will spin.

@Saltisford YES! I have actually (politely) walked out of a Subway when they told me they don’t have butter.

I really hate that US tv dramas and reality shows always depict people's houses with dinner plates and cutlery being plonked right down on the bare table top , even for 'fine dining'. No table mats or tablecloth. Don't like it 😬

Plus sandwiches from a proper shop are wrapped in paper in the US.

@Happinessischeeseontoast you transfer the food from the box to your plate, then eat the leftovers directly out of the box the next day

I’m sorry but sandwiches MUST be buttered <gavel>

The Chinese takeout containers, and the blue cardboard takeaway coffee-cups with the Greek key pattern, instantly signal ‘America’ to me (probably from too much 'Cagney & Lacey' in my formative years).

I see Subway as the exception to buttered bread because they always ram them full of other ingredients and a saucy sauce. I guess it would be crap if you don't add lots of the salads.

Me too. I never ate butter for decades, even as a child. Now I like it on hot scones, or even sometimes on toast, but can't stand cold butter on things (or marg), so I rarely buy sandwiches either. Sandwiches with no butter sound fabulous - but I don't want mayo on them!

I don't know anyone in the US who doesn't have some sort of coffee machine or apparatus, which makes a kettle irrelevant. Most Americans drink coffee as opposed to tea.

I personally like drip coffee really hot, so I have a coffee pot, a cone, and filters that sit into the cone. One of my DDs has a stovetop moka pot, and another uses a French press for coffee. French press girl and I use water boiled in our electric kettles to male coffee.

I drink a lot of tea, so obv the water for this is boiled in my electric kettle. But I know a lot of people who have an electric kettle. You can buy them in Walmart. Mine cost $14.99 and originally went with one of my DDs to university.

No, it's because toast is hot and bread is cold - butter doesn't melt on something which is cold.

I think they are a very sensible nation!

oh, is that why so many seem to fall over / blow away during storms ???
no proper foundations, and building materials too light ?

Yes, and I love them for it.

In the US?

If you go to a sandwich shop that offers actual bread and will make up sandwiches to order then you might get something decent.

Ready made sandwiches from a supermarket are made with plastic bread and are pretty awful.

My head was certainly not spinning (although my eyes may well have rolled quite a lot at the price of proper bread when I lived there - I got good at making my own).

As opposed to the UK where supermarket sandwiches can be made with various breads and are made with butter (woohoo).

Seems not, it's not as popular as regular bacon though.

ask.usda.gov/s/article/What-is-Canadian-bacon

I can't think of any depiction of fine dining that doesn't include a tablecloth.

Do the US houses have laundry shoots? I saw one on a TV show once and the dirty laundry went down this slide contraption and ended up in a laundry room with dirty washing next to the washing machine. My mind was blown.

@SabrinaThwaite

When I want a sandwich, I usually go to a bakery or a sandwich shop. I've never had a ready-made sandwich in a grocery store/ supermarket in the US. I don't think I've ever actually seen one in my part of the country. I have seen burritos or what the UK likes to call wraps but that's about it. Now, I am going to have to look for them.

Chutes? Shoots? 😅

Prefabricated houses are fine for your average severe storm, but tornadoes and hurricanes aren't an average severe storm. Tornadoes lift cars and uproot massive trees. Hurricanes involve sustained wind speeds of a very high velocity and gusts even higher.

But in general, prefabricated houses and especially trailers are known as tornado bait for a reason.

Not directly related to the thread but when we stayed in LA we discovered the "breakfast biscuits" served with bacon and eggs ready odd. They are very heavy and dry and just don't fit with bacon etc. Was yearning for a piece of hot buttery toast with it! Come to think of it you couldn't get toast either as a breakfast on it's own.

When Americans say egg salad sandwich they mean egg mayonnaise. Anything with mayo on is 'salad'.

Older ones can often have chutes, yes.

Normally the basement would house the washer and dryer, making a chute really handy. I nearly came a cropper when I stepped on a toy someone had left on the basement stairs one day, while I was schlepping a basket of laundry down to my basement.

I remember seeing that in a tv show too. I grew up in a one-story house in Texas and all I ever wanted was to live in a two-story house and have a laundry chute.

The first two-story house I lived in was a two-up/ two-down in Reading, England and it had the washing machine in the kitchen and no laundry room with a chute. That was a bummer. 😝

No, it's called egg salad because it's cold. Ditto potato salad.

A BLT would have mayo on it, but it isn't a salad, and your average tossed salad wouldn't have mayo in it, but it's still a salad.