I brown bag my lunch everyday & starting this week began cutting my turkey sandwich diagonally instead of horizontally (which I have for years). Something seems different with the sandwich cut diagonally. I can't quite pinpoint it but feel I'm getting less of a sandwich cutting it diagonally. I'm beginning to think the angle in which the knife is inserted to cut the sandwich somehow absorbs or erodes its contents. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there anywhere I can find out if this is a fact?
2007-02-21 05:33:58 · 20 answers · asked by Brady Boone 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Wow.
All I can say is wow.
Nothing is lost either way you slice it. Perhaps in a diaganol cut, because it slants from smaller to larger, the halves of the sandwich look smaller. With the sandwich that is cut into rectangle halves, I suppose it looks as if there is more because everything is the same size.
Who knows.
Bottom line is square, triangle, or rectangle... the mass stays the same.
Unless you have a hungry knife.
2007-02-21 05:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A whole sandwich cut any direction is still a whole sandwich. Personally, I prefer a sandwich cut diagonally, it gives a better place to start biting.
2007-02-21 05:42:16 · answer #2 · answered by big_mustache 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting.
Theory: Sandwich is same weight but squished due to tighter squeeze needed to hold sandwich down with diagonal cut.
2007-02-21 05:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason it seems like you have more is because of the size of bites you're taking. Depending on the cut, you get bigger or smaller bites, therefore creating an illusion that there is more or less sandwich. There is no way that the angle of the cut would erode the sandwich.
2016-05-24 03:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1/2+1/2=1. No matter how you cut it, it's still one sandwich. Maybe it's easier to eat it when it's cut diagonally, so you eat it faster, and you're still hungry because you eat fast.
However, it's still one sandwich.
2007-02-21 11:42:32 · answer #5 · answered by jimbell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is nothing but optical illusion, you are so use to looking at your sandwhich cut in a certain way for so long that cutting in a different way makes it seem smaller, give it some time and you'll get use to it. But be assured no amount of your sandwhich is lost no matter how you cut it, it's how you look at it. So relax and enjoy your sandwhich.
2007-02-21 05:40:54 · answer #6 · answered by india08_30 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, you obviously don't lose any more sandwich when cutting it diagonally.. unless after you cut it diagonally YOU THROW HALF OF IT OUT.
2007-02-21 05:40:30 · answer #7 · answered by MetroDetroitGuy25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weigh them before and after on a kitchen scale. There shouldn't be any difference.
You probably feel cheated because you get a few "little" bites when you eat the pointy parts.
2007-02-21 05:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by hatevirtual 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have the same feeling but it can't be true. I even hate to cut it at all. When it is whole I feel that it is bigger. I understand you very well.
2007-02-21 07:07:51 · answer #9 · answered by Balsam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...this reminds me
I often cut a sandwich into THREE
last time I did it my guest was looking around for the 4th section
lol lol
2007-02-21 06:39:43 · answer #10 · answered by JustSo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋