Poll: How many sandwiches ? (now with a poll!)

How many sandwiches?

  • 1 Sandwich

    Votes: 229 53.0%

  • 2 Sandwiches

    Votes: 144 33.3%

  • We should be banned for letting this go on so long

    Votes: 59 13.7%
  • Total voters
    432
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Raymond Lin said:
Think like the real world. You go into Greggs to get a sandwich. You say "Can i have 1 of those (insert your favourites here) please"

Now do you expect to get half a sandwich just because you said 1 ?

NO ! You expect to get a whole sandwich cut in 2 halves. Because thats how a Single sandwich comes in !
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I'd expect a full size sarnie too, but that's only because we generally accept that as the standard size of a sandwich.

But if you cut it in half, the smaller pieces still fill the requirements of being a sandwich, albeit smaller.
 
Trojan said:
Do you? It's not something I buy often I have to admit, but I did say for arguments sake :p

The point however is still valid. If I order 1 sandwich and get brought 3 triangles, I haven't been given 3 sandwiches and I certainly won't be charged for 3 sandwiches. Just the one.
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Ah, but if you're brought 3 triangles then you've only 3/4s of what you're saying constitutes a single sandwich, so how can it be one sandwich when it doesn't add up to the whole?

Its all about perspective. And 1 being the wrong answer ;)
Cookie-Monster said:
OK the answer is 1
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No it isn't :p

Cookie-Monster said:
but on a slightly different note, why do sandwiches and toast for that matter taste better cut in triangles than in squares?
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Fancy reading the thread?
 
One more variable to the equation:

If you prepare a sandwich yourself and cut in in half to my mind you still have one sandwich as you have used two slices of bread, it started as an original whole sandwich and has been halved.

But if someone brings a platter of sandwichs out >10 and someone asks me how many I have had I don't take the total and half it, I state how many I have eaten.

So does the number change depending on who prepared them and the quantity eaten?
 
a sandwich is two pieces of bread with a filling irrelevant of the size , cut a sandwich in half you get 2 smaller sandwiches

When I saw the question I thought the answer was so cut and dried that the thread would die within an hour
 
Gilly said:
You're agreeing with northerners for tig too :p
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hell no! its tag and you know it! :p

but this whole "round" thing, ive been in Bristol all my life and i have to say i find its only the students who say it, i on the other hand have never said it and never will, "rounds" are for drinks and thats that! :D
 
As far as I can see, it's all down to whether you define a sandwich as a filling between two slices, or two pieces of bread. Those that prefer the slices definition will always be accurate when talking about how many sandwiches they want/have consumed in general, but those that prefer the pieces definition will be more accurate in a buffet situation. Ergo, I predict that this thread will never end!
 
Piggymon said:
One sandwich ! ... Stoopid northern gits talking gobbledygook again :rolleyes: :p
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Don't listen to him. I'm a Northerner and it's ONE SANDWICH. The fact that it's cut in half doesn't make the two halves whole pieces does it? If I had a sandwich cut in half, I wouldn't offer it to someone as, "do you want a sandwich?". I'd say, "do you want some of this sandwich?" or, "do you want half of this sandwich?".
 
phykell said:
Don't listen to him. I'm a Northerner and it's ONE SANDWICH. The fact that it's cut in half doesn't make the two halves whole pieces does it? If I had a sandwich cut in half, I wouldn't offer it to someone as, "do you want a sandwich?". I'd say, "do you want some of this sandwich?" or, "do you want half of this sandwich?".
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How about at a buffet then?
 
gilly said:
How about at a buffet then?
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bar said:
If you prepare a sandwich yourself and cut in in half to my mind you still have one sandwich as you have used two slices of bread, it started as an original whole sandwich and has been halved.

But if someone brings a platter of sandwichs out >10 and someone asks me how many I have had I don't take the total and half it, I state how many I have eaten.

So does the number change depending on who prepared them and the quantity eaten?
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phykell said:
Don't listen to him. I'm a Northerner and it's ONE SANDWICH. The fact that it's cut in half doesn't make the two halves whole pieces does it? If I had a sandwich cut in half, I wouldn't offer it to someone as, "do you want a sandwich?". I'd say, "do you want some of this sandwich?" or, "do you want half of this sandwich?".
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I totally agree with this, a sandwich as defined by Wikipedia (link below) is "a food item typically consisting of two slices of bread" so by definition there is one sandwich cut in half:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich

Dictionary.com similarly describes the sandwich, confirming that it indeed consists of 2 slices of bread and a filling:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sandwich

Tolkien further confirms this:

"One Sandwich to rule them all, One Sandwich to find them, One Sandwich to bring them all and in the darkness bind them".
 
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