Unbreaded

No Matter How You Cut It…

When building that perfect sandwich, the one that fills you up and satisfies you like no other, the last thing one might think twice about is cutting it in half. Most people are programmed based on how their sandwiches were cut for them at a young age. But we’ve pondered this for a long time; which makes for a more perfect sandwich – the cross cut or diagonal cut?

Fortunately, Alice Winkler of NPR’s All Things Considered decided to find a definitive answer to this age old question. Kevin Harris, an architect in Baton Rouge explains that cutting on the diagonal greatly exposes the inside of the sandwich saying, “by exposing the interior, it engages more of your senses before you take the first bite.” It’s more about the illusion of a larger sandwich for Kemp Minifie, former executive food editor of Gourmet Magazine. She is confident that as human beings we want more excitement from life, to think out of the box, and too summons architecture, “right angles can be boring, think of rooms – we like curved windows, bay windows.”

The thinking gets even deeper when Winkler discusses the concept with Paul Calter emeritus professor of mathematics at Vermont Technical College. Listen to the audio excerpt and read the article to learn how Plato most likely ate his sandwiches.

Let us know in the comments how you prefer to cut your sandwich. Further more, we would like to propose the following question: When eating a sandwich on sliced bread, do you bite in from the middle or the corner?

Rectangle Vs. Triangle: The Great Sandwich Debate [NPR]