down the middle or across

[Alice Faber]

Indigo Som said:
>De-lurking to tell what a weird family I come from: we sometimes used
>to cut sandwiches into 4 squares! I associate this w/ being a little
>kid (elementary school & younger). I guess there was some concept
>about smaller pieces for smaller hands & mouths? I don't know. You
>can only do this with a very thin sandwich & I mostly remember it
>with butter -- well, margarine, actually -- sandwiches.

We did this also. Kid sandwiches were cut into four pieces. Sometimes
it was just quarters (i.e., 4 little squares), and sometimes it was
triangles (i.e., 2 diagonal cuts), and sometimes it was a weird
combination of one verticle and one diagonal cut.
>
>Grownup &/or thicker sandwiches were cut vertically.

Yep.
>
>I also think horizontal is really weird.

Yep.
>
>Now I cut diagonally.

Nah...still vertical, when I have sandwiches.

>Too much Martha exposure, maybe. (Free Martha!)

Here we part ways.


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