Do triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones?

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I think possibly they might.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

In much the same way that the top (shaped) half of a slice of toast tastes better than the bottom half.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

In the same way as eating four kitkat fingers together is better than snapping each off individually and eating them.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Sandwich toasters always cut into triangles so yes.

Although sausage sandwiches are more stable when cut square (and lengthwise in regard to the sausage).

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

i think it depends on the size of them.. see triangular sandwiches are normally cut from a square one i.e. half the size, and it is the ideal size for stuffing in mouth for the taste sensation.

if they make square sandwiches that are half the size, it'd be just as awesome i bet.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Cucumber sandwiches taste better in quarter-slice size squares.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Mars bars taste better if you slice them up

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

woo quarter size! i must try this. and also the cube - quarter sized and stacked to the same height as its width and length.

xpost that's just weird

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Even better if you slice them up and freeze them!

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

mars bars, that is.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

and then deep fry?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

This bread is the wrong shape. It is too small. Look, you try and fold it, but you can't fold it, and it breaks. How am I meant to deal with this? It's not even bread.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

to hell with triangles and squares. i just want thick slices of fresh seeded bloomer or farmhouse loaf with weird curved top crust and too huge to fit in my mouth so i get chronic lockjaw.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

someone tell me why bloomers are called bloomers please.

yes triangles better.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

But surely square sandwiches are just 2 triangluar ones joined together.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Bloomer = bloomer bread which is er, big and crusty, which is a GOOD THING in bread!

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Bloomer: has oblique slashes cut along its length prior to second rising, so it 'blooms' as it gets jiggy with the yeast, hence 'bloomer' innit.

All triangular things taste great e.g. samosas (but this may be because of the deep-frying etc). To be all sensible, this might have something to do with the shape allowing lots of extra oxygen into yr mouth while you ingest, which makes things tastier. But it might also be some kind of weird geomancy thing.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

What about those triangular green chocolates in Roses? Or Dairy Lee?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I disapprove of triangular crisps. But apart from that, Liz is right.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Triangular crithpth are clearly tortilla-based, and hence FOREIGN and not really crisps. 'Chips'.

In't the triangular nougat or some such? It's lovely, anyway. But you might have to take into consideration the green-food ruling as well as the triangular issue. Dairy Lee sounds like a member of a bucolic boyband.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

i never cut toast with butter diagonally, only toast with nutella, or PB&J. don't know why, but it ends up meaning that the diagonal ones taste better.

i doubt it's anything scientific, but something from childhood about 'special' sandwiches cut into little triangles being so exciting means that i think they taste better than square ones.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Anything hard enough to poke you in the mouth should not be made triangular (ha, one for the out-of-context thread I fear).

Triangular sandwiches may also be good because you can start at the corner and get a small bite as a teaser before hitting the full sandwich experience. And boring school lunchbox sandwiches were rectangular-cut because they take up less space, hence as Colette says triangular ones are 'special'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

toblerones are also great. and triangular. (but that doesn't explain 99 flakes)

robster otm upthread re:sausage sandwiches though.. triangle is just the wrong shape for it, unless you use a square sausage to start with to cut in half. sausage sandwiches are best when sliced in to rectangular slices.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

i have no idea how one should approach a sandwich with a runny egg in it. slicing in half would be messy. leaving the yoke in just one side is disappointing. the only way is to leave it uncut which still isn't ideal. Maybe use two eggs? Or make sure the egg is cooked thoroughly enough?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Leave it whole! Also squish slightly to pop the yolk before biting in, or you end up with egg all over yr shirt, and that's so not a sexy look. Anyway, this is straying from triangularity.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Triangle better, yeah. And a hoagie/sub/dagwood should be cut at an angle, not straight across.
ideal size for stuffing in mouth for the taste sensation. OTM

What about round? Do you cut round bread straight across, at an angle, or not at all?

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Triangular sandwiches are a decadent diversion from the sandwich itself. Straight sandwiches are more indie these days.

The way to attack a runny egg sandwich is to cut it in half and sepearet the halves by a tiny amount, maybe 1/4 of a centimetre. Thsi will make the yolk soak into teh break making it all gooey and yummy without it going all over your shirt.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

My 92-y.o. grandfather somehow tottered his way out to Tracer Hand World Headquarters this Christmas. For lunch one day we had an old Hand family classic: mayo, sweet pickles (discs), and ham on white bread. I made his for him (and Cousin Hand's, whose hands were busy with baby), and raised the knife uncertainly, looking in his direction for guidance. He was grumbling in his mind and paying no heed of me. This is a very sharp man in some respects, never fails to say "Scat!" if you sneeze. I ask him, I actually ask him, if he wants his sandwich cut diagonally or straight down the middle. "Cut it on the square" says he. All of which is by way of saying that I have a further piece of evidence for the proposition that diagonally-cut sandwiches are more "exciting." Excitement is something old Hand never had any truck with.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

You can take cookie cutters to grilled cheese sammiches and serve up wee little grilledcheesesammichbreadmen.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Levels of excitement ensuing should be proportional to appreciation thereof, I would imagine.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

See I think old gramps would love that. "Well isn't that something." He'd never make it himself though. Of course he doesn't know how to run the dishwasher or toast his own bread, either. Beggars can't be choosers.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I remember a further detail. Old Pa Hand mumbled something about it holding together better, "so the stuff doesn't fall out." I realize this is a separate issue from both tastiness and excitement.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Little tea sandwiches are best served in little squares or rectangles.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

tea sandwiches are in tuxedos. regular sized sandwiches cut in triangles: sport jacket. straight-cut: casual wear. uncut: pajamas.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Uncut? We're talking about teatime comestibles here, not circumcision.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

that was unnecessary.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

It usually is.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I was going to make the same joke about Sarah's "big and crusty, which is a GOOD THING."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Only if eaten with pinkie outstretched.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

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