Sandwiches, how many do you have?

[Eveysdad]

I remember having a discussion about this a few years ago at work, so let's ask:

I have 2 slices of bread, I butter both of them, put cheese, ham and pickle on one and put the other on top, I then cut it directly in half.

How many sandwiches do I have? 1 or 2

[ouryve]

The same discussion can be had about a piece of paper, btw

[Sgtmajormummy]

Aaaaargh. Nobody is going to be "right". Let me out of here!

[JobobeanHo]

I hate the kind of people who offer you toast but only give you one slice. That's not even a snack.

[SwedishEdith]

If you cut a worm in half, you get 2 worms.

[penguinsarecool]

2 rounds normally, cut into triangle halves.

[Crikeyblimey]

A round of sandwiches uses two rounds of bread. Making them into a sandwich makes them one item - one round of sandwiches.

Therefore - cut it half you still have one sandwich.

[SenecaFalls]

"Round" of sandwiches is British English, by the way. We don't use that expression in the US for sandwiches or toast. An "order" of toast is usually two slices.

[SanityClause]

What about toast? If a round of sandwiches is two slices of bread (which it is) how many slices of bread are needed to make a round of toast?

[Eveysdad]

Anyone who says 2 sandwiches is mental. I can't just go cut a car in half and have 2 cars, can't cut a TV in half and have 2 TV's. Lol. Mentalists I tells you .

[SenecaFalls]

A hamburger is a sandwich. If you cut it in half, you wouldn't call it two hamburgers.

[PurpleDaisies]

I wonder if this thread will turn into a bunfight...

[StealthPolarBear]

But the things you buy in the triangular boxes form the supermarket?

[AndNowItsSeven]

It's two, if you eat sandwiches at a picnic you don't say " pass me half a sandwich".

[StealthPolarBear]

Well when it's sold in a box is it sold as a sandwich or two? I think one.

[SenecaFalls]

If I have a sandwich for lunch, which is always cut in half, I say one sandwich. But if there is a plate of tea sandwiches for a party or meeting, which are little triangles but which each no doubt started as a larger sandwich cut in halves and then fourths, I would say each one is a sandwich.

[inmyheadimthequeen]

I would call that one sandwich too (or a piece if I was at home ) as would all my family. However, my MIL isn't a big eater and if she wants a sandwich she would say 'just the one' or 'one round' meaning one slice of bread.

[ouryve]

It's all in how it first presents to you.

If you have made a sandwich, you can cut it into as many pieces as you like and it's still a sandwich, just a cut up one.

Agree about the buffet situation, though. In that situation, each piece of sandwich is a sandwich.

[Allalonenow]

You would have "a round" even if you had cut it into two or four.

And if you put it in a box, it would be in a "snap box" or "bait box".

[Hero1callylost]

Ongoing argument in my house too. We have to talk in number of slices now to avoid confusion!

[senua]

Wiki says a sandwich is "A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food."

No mention of fractions of a slice. So two whole slices = one sandwich, and two whole slices cut up still = one sandwich.

[SenecaFalls]

Ye would have a piece

[steppemum]

a round of sandwiches.
2 sandwiches

[Heathcliff27]

You'd have a piece here too and if you put it in a tupperware box to take to work it would be in a piece box

[treaclesoda]

I would call that 'a' sandwich. But I'm not sure if I'd call it 'one' sandwich, and I definitely wouldn't call it two sandwiches.

Does that make sense to anyone else?

[PurpleDaisies]

This has been a long running source of argument in the Daisies household. I (correctly) say that makes one sandwich which has been cut in half while my husband due to a defect in his upbringing thinks that you magically have two sandwiches when you cut it. He is clearly wrong.