AIBU toast and sandwich irritation

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This is lighthearted!

People that don't cut toast or sandwiches In half to eat them! Drives me mad.

Just saying.

I was in a really nice hotel a few weeks back and there was a 20-something eating her toast at breakfast without cutting it.

I'm going to have to start eating alone as I cannot abide poor table manners. It makes me stabby and it's getting worse as I get older. People talking with food in their mouth or eating with their mouth open is the worst for me.

My dh makes his sandwiches by using 3 slices of bread adding his filling to each slice, and folding each in half. It does seem wrong somehow.

What, now?

I only eat toast cold and I also like the straight crust more than the rounded so eat that side last

Hot toast with jam/peanut butter/honey/melty butter
Cold toast with unmelted butter and marmite
Toast to be cut in half straight edge (worst edge) first, curvy edge (best edge) second
Sandwiches on untoasted bread unless it is a fried egg or veggie sausage sandwich in which case it is lightly toasted (Very lightly)
Sandwiches also cut down middle, toast rules apply.
Bread should never be cut into triangle unless it is to make eggy bread.

Dh just toasts it, spreads it, and shoves it in his mouth....wierdo.

If you can hold your whole sandwich without it falling apart, then you didn't put enough filling in it.

Seconded!

People talking with food in their mouth or eating with their mouth open is the worst for me.

That greedy git Greggggggg Wallace must cause you physical pain.

It makes me heave every time he overfills his enormous gob and starts chawing away , talking and refilling before he's even swallowed the first shovelful helping.

There are pigs in muck with better table manners.

DH has his toast or sandwich uncut on a dinner plate. Clearly I wouldn't have married him if I knew.

Toast on diagonal. Sandwiches depending on filling. A non saucy sandwich-rectangles, a full or drippy sandwich- diagonal for ease of filling management.

On a small plate. Of course.

I cut all of mine. My DH thinks it's weird I cut my sandwiches into four pieces and says that's how children eat. I prefer holding smaller sandwiches 🤷🏼‍♀️

I cut all of mine. My DH thinks it's weird I cut my sandwiches into four pieces and says that's how children eat

Vair posh afternoon tea places cut sandwiches into small pieces - fingers or triangles. You're just distinguished and refined.

There is so much unacceptable activity described in this thread .

As long as you enjoy your snack it really doesn't matter

I cut sandwiches usually a bit wonky which we now call café style as a lovely cafe we went to cut then as wonky as I do .. but theirs was meant to be stylish.

When we were first married I cut my husband's sandwiches into triangles; he asked me not to do it again!

This thread has cheered me up enormously after the grimmest of days at work and a horrendous commute through the floods.

I am so pleased to see so much enthusiasm for cutting bread diagonally rather than into oblongs (WRONG, WRONG, WRONG). I feel I have found my people

What about my mother people who dip their (uncut in any direction) cheese on toast in their tea, is that weird? Jam on toast yes, but come on

@Shannith you have produced the definitive guide to cutting etiquette I think. Good work.

Laughing a lot at the fruity confused hotdog @BillHadersNewWife.

Cutting toast diagonally so you end up with two triangle reduces the risk of ‘jam cheek’.
However cutting toast at all runs the risk of the copious amounts of melted butter pooling on the bread to run off onto the plate.
One of life’s major quandaries.

BonnesVacances eating toast without cutting it is not bad manners at all and in no way comparable to eating with an open mouth or talking with a full mouth.

BonnesVacances

Oops I made you into a link!

I meant to post this:

www.maggieoldham.com/blog/bread-etiquette
not somehow inexplicably post your user name as a link!

I don't understand not cutting sandwiches, but not cutting toast is fine IMO.

One of the finest things I have ever seen was my dh's 90 year old grandma doing very thin slices of bread from a loaf of unsliced bread. She cut off the crust, buttered the end of the loaf, then cut it very thinly with the breadknife ....it was a blimming epiphany I tell you.

ChateauneufDuTwat... I've found my people 👍 buttered toast dipped in tea is gorgeous 😊
Can I ask where you're from?
I'm a Londoner girl. I have been told this is a northern thing but clearly not for me 🤔.

I never cut toast whatever the topping (mmmm dark chocolate spread) and rarely eat sandwiches, but think I cut across the middle.
I don't cut burgers (would struggle to eat a whole one at the moment) and definitely don't eat them with a knife and fork because that's batshit 😂

People who say sangwich instead of sandwich drive me mad!

@hazeyjane My granny used to do that too, except she held the loaf under one arm to do the buttering!

I don't like my toast cut. It goes hard and cold quicker. I like the soft soggy middle bit.