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fly258 | 22:10 Fri 15th Dec 2006 | Food & Drink
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Please settle an argument for me.
How many slices of bread in ONE sandwich?
I say 2, my partner says 1.
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A sandwich = 2 slices of bread with a filling in between.

Whoever says differently is a fool and should be avoided at all costs.
I would say for a proper sandwich it has to be 2, hence the expression sandwiched between two..........
However there is an 'open' sandwich which only has 1slice of bread.
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or you can have 1 slice of bread folded in half ,it still makes a sandwich.

(hears maximo moving further away avoiding me) :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich

A sandwich is a food item typically consisting of two pieces of leavened bread between which are laid one or more layers of meat, vegetable, cheese, together with optional or traditionally provided condiments, sauces, and other accompaniments. The bread is used as is, lightly buttered, or covered in a flavoured oil to enhance flavour and texture.

The term "sandwich" has been expanded�especially in the United States�to include items made with other types of bread, such as rolls and focaccia. Thus hamburgers and "subs", for example, are called "sandwiches," although not made with slices of bread from a loaf. There is also a variety of dessert called an ice cream sandwich, consisting of two square cookies (generally chocolate-flavored) with vanilla ice cream in the middle.

The nearest traditional Scandinavian equivalent is generally known elsewhere as an "open" or "open-face" sandwich, i.e. a single slice of bread with meat, fish, cheese, etc. as a topping, although the sandwich with two slices of bread has become more commonplace in recent times. This open-face variation is also prevalent in Russia, where it is known as a buterbrod (бутерброд, from the German butterbrot).

In the UK, particularly in the north of England they are known, informally, as 'butties' or 'sarnies'. This is particularly the case with sandwiches including freshly-cooked bacon and butter, though other forms of 'butty' use other ingredients and mayonnaise. A sandwich filled with chips (US: french fries) is known as a 'chip butty'. In Britain roughly 1.8 billion sandwiches are purchased outside the home every year. In French countries one might see this referred to as un Belge: a Belgian (sandwich). In Scotland, sandwiches are called 'pieces'. One Australian slang term for sandwich i
I say two.

The original sandwich was, it is said, created for the Earl of Sandwich who asked for beef between two pieces of bread, hence one sandwich.
Nonsense. A sandwich, from the origins of times (and no, Im not exagerating), has always included AT LEAST two pieces of bread. A contraption using three (or more) slices of bread, is ALSO a sandwich, because it contains the obligatory 2 slices. plus 1, or 2 or whatever.

A piece of bread with a topping, however, is NOT a sandwich. Unless you fold it in two. Otherwise, I'd call it a "canape", and become gay.


I rest my case. ;-)
Slightly off-topic, maybe, but I am confused as to what a 'round' of sandwiches is?
We call a "sandwich" a piece and there's one piece of loaf in it.
That's cause all you Scots are fools, Corby. Ah well, at least you make good whisky...;-P
If it is a butter sandwich then none.

Cross-section through a cheese sandwich goes bread-butter-cheese-butter-bread. Therefore a bread sandwich goes bread-butter-bread-butter-bread. By substitution a butter sandwich is butter-butter-butter-butter-butter.
Two.x
If you say a piece and whatever as I do, that knocks yir reasoning on the head whiffey. As for you ~max~, you said yirsel, a bit loaf folded in two makes what I call a piece so what are you on about?
This is what it says in the Chambers online dictionary about the word piece

"14 Scots a a snack or meal, such as a sandwich, biscuit etc; b a piece of bread with butter, jam, etc"

See that? It says A piece of bread not two...
It depends entirely on how you define the words 'slice' and 'sandwich'. A 'slice' of bread is not necessarily defined as one piece of a normal 'sliced' loaf; it is any piece of cut-off bread, just as a slice of meat may be narrow and wafer-thin or broad and thick as a doorstep!
If you take one sliced-loaf slice and cut it in half, either square-wise or triangle-wise, then put cheese or whatever on top of one of the halves, topping that off with the other half, you still have a sandwich. If you then decided to cut that small sandwich in half again, as for a vicar's tea-party, you'd finish up with two tiny sandwiches made from one slice...and so on.

yes i agree with you fly258, there are 2 slices of bread in 1 sandwich.
Can yous not just agree that a piece/slice of loaf/bread makes a piece/sandwich and then we can all move on....
It has to be 2 pieces: to cover top and bottom (can be 1 slice halved but correct answer is 2)
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I never realised this was such a contentious issue !
Just use your loaf and enjoy it!

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