down the middle or across

[Peter A. McGraw]

--On Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:46 PM -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:

>> First, this comment assumes rounded-top bread; not all was; some was
>> square. In fact, it was often called "sandwich bread," as I recall.
>
> Second, it assumes that the so-called horizontal cut went
> across,leaving a top and bottom half. Why couldn't it go down,
> leaving two sides?

Because then it would be "vertical."

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