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.

Because the trope requires that Mom stumbles into the kitchen with her hands unfeasibly full and plonks the bags of groceries down on the counter, while calling out to her kids or DH about something. It is also mandatory for a baguette and a bunch of celery to be sticking out of the top of the bag.

@CarolinaInTheMorning

You are absolutely right. There are a few grocery stores that have a deli counter that make their own made-to-order sandwiches. There's only one near my house, Sprouts, that does this. That's why I go to the bakery or the independent deli's. But pre-made sandwiches like those found in the UK are definitely not common. And they would definitely not have butter!

I’m a Brit without a kettle and I don’t put butter on my sandwiches, i await my green card!

as others have said I’m such a fan of the Chinese takeaway boxes that have 🥡 it just looks so much nicer than our containers.

@DoingJustFine

What I as an Irish person would call brown bread and what an American would call wheat bread are two very different breads, made with very different ingredients.

Brown bread to me is a traditional Irish bread made with Irish wholemeal flour. It has a dense, chewy texture andba tough crust. American wheat bread (usually called "whole wheat bread") is made with finely ground wheat flour and has a texture very like white bread.

But I have also recently learned that electric egg boilers are a thing?

American discovers butter in sandwiches, goes viral.

I have never seen a pre-made sandwich sold in a supermarket in Northern California. Always a deli counter, made to order.

Kettles. Electric kettles are readily available for sale everywhere. My DH drinks tea (orders exotic leaves from India! No tea bags for him ) and could not do without one. I keep teabags for normal people.

Americans typically would have salted or unsalted bitter that is pretty similar to what you get in the uk from store label. It would be more difficult to source premium butter, but it is available. Americans just don’t do butter in sandwiches-it feels excessive to have ham and butter or (worse) cheese and butter. It would also be considered a bit boring - flavoured mayo (pesto, sriracha, garlic, chipotle) is more of a thing that enhances sandwich flavour while also
providing necessary cohesion.

Every county has building standards, and newer homes are built for safety in extreme weather. As far as houses flying away, I can tell you've never been in a hurricane or tornado. I've been through both and houses fly away because hurricanes spawn tornadoes and cat 5 tornadoes can have wind speeds of more than 300 mph. No building, no matter how strong, can survive that and I've seen sturdy brick house that were left a pile of bricks.

What about wardrobes? Every US home renovation programme I watch (and I watch a lot!) mentions rooms having built in closets to count as a bedroom..

Free standing wardrobes, I mean.

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

Wtaf

Never

I don't cut my sandwich in half if I'm having peanut butter or ham. I like holding a whole sandwich!
I do put butter on my peanut butter sandwich though.

No butter in sandwiches is a very good reason to move to the States. However my local take away does the box thing so I could stay put.

I'll be up all night making life choices now 😄

Walk-in closets do not count as a room, although they can be as big as one. In order for a room to legally be a bedroom, it must have a window and a built-in closet. Wardrobes are not popular and I have never seen one in the US used for storing clothes

A grilled cheese is done in a frying pan. You make a cheese sandwich, butter the outside and fry it on both sides until the bread is browned and the cheese is melted. Then, yes, we cut it in half. I’m American and like mine served with a bowl of tomato soup.

As for wardrobes, we call them “closets”. I work for a Building Department and to be called a bedroom, it needs a closet. If there is no closet, it’s a den or an office and the house can not be sold claiming that as a bedroom,

Is that why you see so many second 'bedrooms' with a window built into them, but without any outside view? Is that a way to get round it?

to be a bedroom it also needs a window?

A grilled cheese sandwich is cheese (my preference is cheddar) between two pieces of bread. The outside of each piece is buttered and the sandwich is cooked in a frying pan or on a griddle, first on one side and then the other until the bread is toasted and the cheese is melted. It's also sometimes called a toasted cheese sandwich.

I like a little mayo on mine on the inside of the bread before it's grilled. That's a Southern thing.

There are lots of variations. One of my favorites is smoked Gouda and thinly sliced apple. I don't put mayonnaise on that one.

It is a cheese toastie but better. You fry it in a pan with butter. Cheese toasties will always feel sad after you have experienced a grilled cheese.

I butter toast, bread rolls, biscuits (scones in the UK) cornbread and toasted cheese (grilled cheese in US) sandwiches. Any other sandwich I use mayo, mustard, esp. spicy brown mustard or various other sauces such as horseradish, siracha, etc. Butter alone is bland, which was my main complaint about British food. IMO it's always often bland and flavorless.

Yes, you can get very good butter in the US. We have delicious butter and cheese from our main dairy states, Wisconsin and Vermont, and just about every grocery store carries Irish butter, which is my favorite.

If it's Manhattan or something that's common. The importance is secondary egress in case of a fire, like in most countries.

Speaking of barbecue, in the Southern US where I live, barbecue means meat, usually pork, cooked low and slow over a wood fire or other indirect heat source that produces smoke. Cooking burgers and hot dogs and steaks outside on a grill is not barbecue. That's a "cookout."

I'm an American and I butter sandwiches, even peanut butter sandwiches. But, my family were Scandinavian immigrants, so maybe that has something to do w/ it (no UK origins, however).

Yes, all bedrooms must have a window or they cannot be counted as bedrooms for sales or tax purposes. It's also a safety issue. Requiring a window allows a second way to get out in case of fire.