Help me solve this sausage debate

[HorizontalSausage]

Yes, this is pathetic.

If you had sausages in front of you like this and someone asked you to cut them horizontally would you choose the red line or the green line?

"Horizontal" is actually correct for the red line, but I would use "lengthways" for green and "across" for red.

I wouldn't expect everyone to know the correct technical terms. The correct terms are based on standing the sausage on one end so it is vertical facing you. Cutting it to give a top and bottom (red line) is the "horizontal" or "transverse" plane. Cutting it to give a left and right (green line) is the "sagittal" or "longitudinal" plane and cutting it to give a front and back is the "coronal" or "frontal" plane.

Sausages aren’t humans jcyclops, so they don’t tend to stand up on end. How many sausages have you CT scans on?

@UmbilicusSuperficialis "Sausages aren't humans"

Of course they are. They have feelings and they even form Heavy Metal bands:

You sound like my husband and me 🤣

Depends. Red line if they are to be shared among a group. Green line if they are to go in a sausage sandwich. HTH.

Red!

Red line. But after cooking, if for a sausage sandwich, and not chipolatas, I often slice them the green way to get a nicer sandwich!

Green or you'd have said in half

I would choose green because of the word "horizontal". Red would be cut in half.

Red for horizontal but if I was making a sausage sandwich then always green

But...

If cut along the green line, sausages halved along their length - you are not prevented from then cutting them along the red lined, halved along their width, and fitting two into each bun.

So why the drama.

If he'd cut them on the red line and thats NOT what you wanted... that would be harder to fix (well. Impossible, unless you're some sort of sausage surgeon.)

The fact you didn't just say cut them in half would make me think you meant length ways.

The serious-and-trying-very-hard-to-be-reasonable text messages are hilarious. I'm dying to know the back story- there MUST be a back story?!
Anyway red is, of course, horizontal and green is vertical- look at any maths book. But it was weird phrasing, you should have said 'cut them in half to fit hot dog buns'

So many variables. Did he pick the sausage up and transfer it exactly as it was presented in your picture? If so, horizontal is the red line.

Or did he pick it up, turn it 90° and then place it on the board because sausages are always cut down the length? In which case, the green line was horizontal.

If you had been making a sausage sandwich, I would have gone with green line because it's the law. But because you were making hotdogs, I go with the red line because it's logical.

For future reference, you can eat the sausage that sticks out of the end of the bun before eating the hot dog. This would save a WhatsApp debate.

What? But I put the sausages the same way as the grill so they don't roll about? Bars like lll and sausages like lll. Isn't that normal?

Dh read the thread last night! I’m slightly miffed that comments ended up so mixed after I had such a good start 😂

The people saying "green because that's how I always cut sausages" are missing the point imo. If you're asked to cut something horizontally you cut it horizontally, surely? And the clue is in the name, it means cutting across left to right or right to left.

I would ask them to clarify what they meant because cutting them the red way would be pretty unusual.

I would simply spin the sausages 90 degrees to cut them left to right but in the green fashion.

Yeah it depends how they said it

"Horizontally down" makes no sense.

Horizontally means across.

Vertically means up/down.

I'd ask them to clarify the instraction, I can see a case for both ways! If I am rushing I often cut on the green line.

Green

Lesson to be learned: Horizontal and vertical are concepts that only work when referring to an object with a fixed orientation.

Sausages are not an object with a fixed orientation.

Be more specific in your requests in future, ie: 'Please reduce the length of these meat sticks sufficient to fit wholly within the curtilage of the bread product'.

Green