Sandwiches

[sweeneytoddsrazor]

Making myself some lunch yesterday asked DH if he would like anything to which he replied yes please can I have a couple of cheese sandwiches. I made them, 2 slices of bread as per normal cut in half. When he had finished them said thank you he asked , in curious not arsey way, how come when you make a couple of sandwiches you use 2 slices of bread but when you make a couple of toasties you use 4?
I actually don't know the answer. I guess it's probably because in a cafe it is written as toasted sandwich on the menu, whereas a cold sandwich is usually listed under sandwiches. Or am I just strange. He isn't worried either way but I am now left wondering if I am doing it differently to everyone else?

What do toasted sandwiches have to do with anything

2 slices of bread = one sandwich
2 slices of bread made into one sandwich and toasted still = one sandwich

Not necessarily. Many people can eat two sandwiches. Not everyone is filled up with just one.

In a cafe, ‘a sandwich’ is made with two slices of bread, whether toasted or not. Some lunch menus do a ‘soup and half sandwich’ combo, which is one slice or half of a two-slice sandwich.

It’s definitely you that’s strange, op!

I don’t think I’ve ever been asked for more than one sandwich at a time. If I was asking my husband what he wanted for lunch I’d say do you want a sandwich and if he said yes I’d say do you want one or two?

I’m still not getting the cafe thing at all. You said (I think, can’t go back and check now) that in a cafe sandwiches would be two slices of bread but a toastie would be four? Or do you mean it would be cut into four? This is the part of the post that makes the least sense.

I like a hawf piece on cheese. Especially on plain breed 🍞 😋

couple of sandwiches, i would expect 4 slices of bread..

if you made a sandwich with 2 slices of bread (1 sandwich) and cut it into 4, you wouldn't say you ate 4 sandwiches..

1 sandwich - 2 slices bread sandwiched together.

2 pcs of bread = 1 sandwich.

2 pcs of bread cut into 16 sqaures is not suddenly 32 sandwiches.

My MIL insists that 2 pcs of bread and filling, cut in half, is 4 sandwiches and this is only one of the reasons she drives me intensely insane.

@sweeneytoddsrazor It seems very regional, whereabouts are you? I need to know where to avoid asking for disappointingly truncated sandwich portions.

A couple would be four slices of bread

But the initial artwork was two slices of bread...which have been subdivided. Hence if I ask for two sandwiches I expect it to be made with 4 slices of bread. Natch, they can be cut in halves or quarters and if one is feeling posh the crusts removed. But 2 sarnis= 4 slices of bread

Really?!? This is wild! 😂😂😂