Do you guys cut your homemade sandwiches?

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1. I rarely cut mine when I make it for myself.

   If my wife makes it for me, she cuts it.

2. When I make and eat it at home, it doesn’t get cut. When I make it and take it to work, it gets cut. I can’t explain it. It just has to be that way.

3. I do not for myself.

4. Sometimes, sometimes not. Depends on if they will be easier to eat that way.

   Grilled cheese always has to be cut, diagonally, and placed on the plate with one half propped up by the other half so the corner is sticking up a bit and the cheese can ooze down in a strand. It shows off that the cheese is properly melted, and that dangly strand is the first bite. Yum.

5. Yeah I cut them. I cut them in half – my husband like them cut like sailboats.

   There’s too much in them to risk the larger size.

6. Oh I always cut. Diagonally is the only correct way to cut a sandwich.

7. It depends on the size of the bread. With the standard American loaf I usually cut it. In Europe I prefer sandwiches on croissants or pretzel rolls, and I don’t cut those.

8. Diagonal, it hits better

9. I like making double decker sandwiches with 3 slices of toasted bread. Turkey bacon lettuce and tomato mayo. Then cut it and we each have a half. I also cut toasted cheese; I’m a heathen who likes to dip it in my chili

10. The sandwiches I make aren’t big, so I don’t cut them. Actually, I don’t cut sandwiches in general unless they’re really big.

11. I never make sandwiches so I can’t say

12. Always.

    But I also have an irrational fear of getting food on my face. So I even cut burgers in half before eating them.

13. Yes. Triangles taste better.

14. It’s obviously a preference thing. But you actually partially answered your own question.

    Anecdotally, I almost never cut a sandwich that I will immediately consume at home. If the sandwich is leaving home, then it gets a diagonal cut (most of the time). You would have to poll Americans but I think think it’s cutting a sandwich is done based on the context and preference of the individual.

15. Yes. It is easier to eat one-handed this way.

16. I make such haphazard sandwiches that compromising their structural integrity in any way before eating would be inviting disaster

17. Yeah, a cut sandwich has more surface area to volume ratio, for purposes of activating your taste receptors. Science.

    Really, my kids have little hands and can only handle a half sandwich at a time. If it’s family sandwich time, everybody is getting a triangle.

18. Generally no, I don’t.

    Exceptions made for grilled cheese where dunking in tomato soup is also expected.

    I cut the sandwiches I make for our kids.

19. It depends on the sandwich.

20. Not usually. My teeth will cut it shortly. Plus less chance of things falling out if it’s uncut.

21. I cut the sandwiches I make for my son into four pieces. I don’t cut the ones I make for myself.

22. I usually just eat it whole.

23. I go diagonally when I make a sandwich for somebody and vertical for myself. Diagonal is when the sandwich is made with love and I want the person to know I was thinking about them.

    But yea, cut your sandwich

24. I cut my kids’ sandwiches, but not mine.

25. Diagonal.

    When you make someone a sandwich you prove your love for them by making a diagonal cut.

    The exception is when I make grilled cheese for my toddler. He gets like 1/16th squares.

26. I could never eat my sandwich if it wasn’t cut