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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Gilly said:
Why on earth would you order n. sandwiches with beans?
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Because that particular pictured sandwich has a filler made of Alaskan King Crab, and the best thing in the world to go with that filler is some southern beans!!

Gilly said:
btw, it aint over, because this is a plate of sandwiches, not half-sandwiches :)
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From the wife who worked in a deli for several years :

"That's a platter of sandwich halves!!"
 
Gilly said:
Thats not answering the question though is it? If I brought two plates from a buffet, one for me and one for you, and they each had 3 amalgamations of bread and filling that'd be 3 sandwiches.
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That's different and the reason it's different is because the sandwiches are designed and constructed to be that size, therefore they are individual sandwiches intended for one or more people, although some may reasonably claim that they are in fact, quarter-cut sandwiches. If a sandwich is designed to be two slices of bread and a filling, then splitting it into two halves means you have two halves of the original sandwich. If you packaged each half and sold them as sandwiches in a motorway service station, you could reasonably expect for people to complain about them as obviously being only half a sandwich. What would you call such a packaged item? Would you call it a sandwich and have no problem? Myself, I'd see it as half a sandwich, not a full one, and a rip-off at that.
 
I tested this theory.

I went and cut my dad's car in half. To my horror, I did not have two cars, and so he was angry.

I then tried to cut a table in half. I didn't get two tables for my trouble.

I attempted to cut a sausage in half. Did I end up with two sausages? I wish.

I tried to cut a tree in half. Boy was I surprised when I found that there was only a single, and also dead, tree.

I cut the cat in half, and it died. I didn't get two cats.

I cut a pizza in half. Once again, I didn't end up with two pizzas, which is a damn shame because I was very hungry.

To satisfy my hunger I then went and cut a sandwich in half. I ended up with two sandwiches, which I then cut in half again, and again, until I had 1024 sandwiches to eat. World hunger was solved forever.

One of the above is simply impossible. To help you, I highlighted it in yellow.

One sandwich cut in half is still one sandwich.
 
Killerkebab said:
I tested this theory.

I went and cut my dad's car in half. To my horror, I did not have two cars, and so he was angry.

I then tried to cut a table in half. I didn't get two tables for my trouble.

I attempted to cut a sausage in half. Did I end up with two sausages? I wish.

I tried to cut a tree in half. Boy was I surprised when I found that there was only a single, and also dead, tree.

I cut the cat in half, and it died. I didn't get two cats.

I cut a pizza in half. Once again, I didn't end up with two pizzas, which is a damn shame because I was very hungry.

To satisfy my hunger I then went and cut a sandwich in half. I ended up with two sandwiches, which I then cut in half again, and again, until I had 1024 sandwiches to eat. World hunger was solved forever.

One of the above is simply impossible. To help you, I highlighted it in yellow.

One sandwich cut in half is still one sandwich.
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Proof, if proof were needed ;)



It's unequivocally one sandwich cut into two halves :p
 
Killerkebab said:
I tested this theory.

I went and cut my dad's car in half. To my horror, I did not have two cars, and so he was angry.

I then tried to cut a table in half. I didn't get two tables for my trouble.

I attempted to cut a sausage in half. Did I end up with two sausages? I wish.

I tried to cut a tree in half. Boy was I surprised when I found that there was only a single, and also dead, tree.

I cut the cat in half, and it died. I didn't get two cats.

I cut a pizza in half. Once again, I didn't end up with two pizzas, which is a damn shame because I was very hungry.

To satisfy my hunger I then went and cut a sandwich in half. I ended up with two sandwiches, which I then cut in half again, and again, until I had 1024 sandwiches to eat. World hunger was solved forever.

One of the above is simply impossible. To help you, I highlighted it in yellow.

One sandwich cut in half is still one sandwich.
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How come a LOT of people cannot see that?
 
450 posts, all arguments have been made. We simply need a poll now.

lol.. should we expect anything less here:

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Amoeba said:
Sarcastic **** ;)

Cut a piece of paper in half and see how many pieces of paper you have.
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Sorry about the double-post here (it's been hours!), but Amoeba, you said it yourself. How many pieces of paper do you have? Surely an A4 sheet is not a whole paper, as we have seen much larger papers.
 
I have only just seen this thread and there is no way I am reading 452 posts about sandwiches; so if any of my arguments have been used before, I apologise in advance.

To make a sandwich you butter one slice of bread (not both - that's just extravagant), insert the filling of your choice and place another slice on top.
If you cut it in half it does not magically turn into 2 sandwiches, it becomes 1 sandwich cut in half.

If you cut a pie in half, you don't have two pies. If you cut a cheese roll in half you don't have 2 cheese rolls. If you cut a Naan in half you don't have two Naans......

Stan :)
 
Bigstan said:
If you cut a pie in half, you don't have two pies. If you cut a cheese roll in half you don't have 2 cheese rolls. If you cut a Naan in half you don't have two Naans......
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if you cut a piece of string in half you have two pieces of string. i don't see any reason the same principle can't apply.
 
A sandwich, cut in half.

If I asked someone to make me a sandwich and they produced something made up from the equivalent of one slice of bread cut into two I would feel cheated out of half a sandwich.

The little triangle ones at weddings come under a different set of guidelines. They are pre-made for your convenience, not built under order or command. Therefore they are singular, party-size sandwiches.
 
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