AIBU to think two slices of bread = ONE sandwich??

[cherrycola2004]

I can't recall how we got onto this topic but a man at work seems to think that two slices of bread with a filling and cut in half is TWO sandwiches.

Whereas I think two slices of bread with filling is ONE sandwich cut in half...

What day you ?

YANBU. He's a twonk.

2 slices of bread with filling, uncut = one unwieldy sandwich

The same thing cut in half is 2 manageable sandwiches. It is not one sandwich. It can't be as the two parts are no longer physically attached.

The halved one is also what any child would refer to as 'a sandwich'.

One sandwich is two slices of bread!

Etherium surely it’s two manageable sandwich halves? If the original 2 slicer is one sandwich and you cut it in half you get two halves, not two wholes. What sort of maths is that?
Can anyone think of anything else which, when cut in half, is counted as two things? Two things equivalent to the original thing? It’s bonkers.

Hear Hear Cardibach!

A sandwich is 2 slices of bread and filling. I have never heard of anyone thinking otherwise until now. If you split a chocolate bar in half it's still only one chocolate bar

You are all making my head hurt. Every year it makes my head hurt.

A filling between bread is a sandwich. A round of sandwiches is 2 slices of bread with filling: no matter how many pieces it is cut into.
If the round of sandwiches is cut into four triangles (or squares!) it is still a round of sandwiches but each piece you pick up is still a sandwich in its own right even if its a little sandwich.

DH has 2 round of sandwiches for his lunch every day. Depending on which of us makes them and what the filling is they may be cut into 4 or eight individual sandwiches.

thank you

It's not about maths, it's common sense.

I didn't say it was equivalent - indeed I explicitly stated one was unwieldy and the other was manageable.

Both 'halves' still constitute a sandwich in their own right, and thus you now have two, differently sized sandwiches.

A sandwich is pretty unique in this imho, because there are few other foodstuffs that still present themselves in a similar way when being cut up. Couldn't say the same about a cake or a pizza (unless you do circular pieces in some fancy way).

I'm with Etherium. If you made a tray of brownies, you could eat it as one giant brownie (if you were a maniac) or divide it into 4, or 8 etc. Each one would still be 'a brownie' even if some were bigger. 'Sandwich' as a term doesn't denote size, just materials.

And that would explain, surely, the need for the term 'round of sandwiches'. The 'round' bit denotes the quantity, however many individual sandwiches you want to divide it into. And it's a round of sandwiches not a round of sandwich.

It's 2 sandwiches.

I bet he's one of those monsters who folds bread inhalf 🤢

Two slices of bread is one sandwich no matter how it's cut, a round of sandwiches is one and a half sandwiches aka three slices of bread filled.

What about 1 slice of bread folded in half?

I always have 3 sandwiches, 3 slices of bread used!

Think I might stick to eating bread rolls and not sandwiches .... but then what people call rolls is another matter

Cobs. Obviously.

YANBU

woman I’m boggled now. A round is three slices of bread? Why? How?

YANBU. Get two slices of bread, insert a filling and cut into 16ths. Offer him that as "one sandwich"

@StripySocksAndDocs roll

So if you've made a platter of sandwiches for a buffet, and cut them all up into small portions (got to be careful with my terminology here), say four triangles per full sandwich , and you hold the plate out to a guest, saying, "Would you like a sandwich?" are you saying you'd expect them to take FOUR to make up a complete sandwich??

No. That's obviously madness. Each smaller portion in those circumstances now functions as a 'sandwich'.

I put it to you that some of you are sandwich fascists and you simply need to expand your definition of sandwich in order to function properly in the world.

I identify as a sandwich.

The fact that I am not made of bread and a filling is neither here nor there. You need to expand your definition of a sandwich

That's the spirit.