Yes, still a poll addict here

[desh]

Okay, so you're making a sandwich with some sort of sliced meat (veggies feel free to substitute fake meat, or just pretend the sandwich is for someone else or something since we're not really making a sandwich anyway). And each slice of meat is like a third wider than each slice of bread. What do you do?

[Poll #651120]

In other news, it's possible I'm getting weirder.

Apologies to those who voted and/or commented on a previous version of this poll, in the 45 seconds before I realized I forgot an option, deleted it, and reposted. Please feel free to vote again.

Comments

[peneli.livejournal.com]

Often, I rip sandwich meats that are too big and pile the edges in the center of the sandwich. Which is a lot like one of your methods, but with less folding. (And sometimes with more eating the bits before the sandwich.)

[desh]

I never even thought of pre-eating! I mean, sometimes I do, but only because I feel like eating a whole slice; never as a sandwich-styling method.

[pthalo]

me too! or i rip and then eat the leftovers!

[technopatra.livejournal.com]

Me too, though if I don't nibble the wayward edges, I often go through the trouble of actually cutting them off with a knife.

The fillng:bread:condiment is a delicate ratio that must be maintained. Folding is uncouth and upsets the balance. And the assembling of the sandwich is, in itself, something of a Zen exercise.

I've thought way too much about this.

[sleepsong.livejournal.com]

I leave them flapping, then nibble them down so they're even with the bread before eating the sandwich.

[desh]

Can I call you Flapper?

[kazulrw.livejournal.com]

that was just a guess cause I never eat or make sandwiches with foldy-meatlike food in them. I like to roll up my (meat-substitute) cold cuts in little tubes and eat it that way.

[desh]

Tubes! Man, I didn't even think of that. Thanks.

[rustnroses.livejournal.com]

I'm actually much more prone to do this because the thing I hate most about sandwiches is usually the bread. There's always too much of it. So, cut the cheese in thick stick-like sections, slap of mustard, rolled up in a slice of ham...30 secs in the microwave.

[lunrgoddess.livejournal.com]

Possible??? ::raises eyebrow::
Darlin, I think it's more than just possible.

[desh]

That means I had some weirdness leeway to begin with!

[lord-emo.livejournal.com]

Rip off the extra CHEESE and eat it.

[tammy.livejournal.com]

I accordion fold the meat, but I went with crinkle because that's kind of like an accordion fold. *shrugs*

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

cut off a bit at the edge, and eat it breadlessly. :-p

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

or alternatively, the only thing deli-meat should be in is deli-roll. then you wouldn't have this problem in the first place!

[janinedog]

I like having the meat sticking out. It's more aesthetically pleasing to me. But it has to be even, and I don't like it bunched too high. So, with salami+bread sandwiches, I tend to do four pieces at each corner of the bread (sticking over the edge), and then one right in the middle. Yes, it's weird. :P

[desh]

I'm so glad someone is as anal puts as much thought into this as I do!

[claire.livejournal.com]

I make a grilled cheese sandwich and eat the meat seperately ;)

[desh]

Mmmmm, grilled cheese. It's been awhile.

[ruthonfire.livejournal.com]

As a professional I can tell you the way that with most cold cuts what the most people find most appealing is with just a little sticking out - not like half a slice but maybe a centimeter or so. If it's roast beef with all rough edges, though, you gotta tuck it in. Get my present to Swarthmore by Sunday night if you want me to have it, PS. (Consider my answering your strange poll my way of sucking up because I'm intrigued by the possibility of a present.)

[desh]

I defer to the expert.

[camomiletea.livejournal.com]

I alternate between more than one of these methods and/or decide each time what would be best, specifically:
1)Fold the meat in half and place in the center, creating a meatless bready area on opposite edges of the sandwich
2)Don't fold at all, leaving some bits of each slice flapping in the breeze

[camomiletea.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes option 3) Cut off the pieces that don't fit and give them to my kitty. When he's around and I'm eating a sandwich, he wants some too.

[norgus-beesh.livejournal.com]

vegetarian. Now if you'd asked how I deal with cheese sandwiches . .

[desh]

Aww, no fair, I totally accounted for you veggies!

(Are you back yet?)

[trelana]

I'm anal. If each slice of meat overlaps the bread by a third, I'll cut off the third that overlaps, use three slices of meat so I have three thirds, and create a fourth 'slice' out of the three third-slices.

[trelana]

(I also buy bread to fit meat, and meat to fit bread. Not in flavour (though that's an aspect of it), but shape and size. I have the *perfect* roast beef slices for this potato bread I've got right now. Exactly the same shape and size. It pleases me. Just sayin', since it seems sort of tangentally interesting.)

[pauamma]

"I alternate between more than one of these methods and/or decide each time what would be best" would be closest, except that "trim and fit" isn't an option.

[jdcohen.livejournal.com]

Get a goddamn job already.

--Jeff

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

Are you still on this plane of existence? It's been so long...

[jdcohen.livejournal.com]

DC is most decidedly NOT on the same plane of existence.

--Jeff

[desh]

No, it's not. Speaking of, which, who are you voting for in the November Congressional elections? Oh, wait.....hahahaha

(I love that my friends are nerdy enough that this can pass as a valid, if somewhat pathetic, insult. Miss you, Jeffy!)

[desh]

Don't you be talking to a judge that way!

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

Crinkling tastes better. And the thinner the meat, the better!

[jox.livejournal.com]

you're definitely weirder.

[desh]

You didn't vote!

[jox.livejournal.com]

Um...stalker much? and no, I'm not going to vote because I have better things to do with my time.

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

I only eat subs sandwiches. I mean as far as sandwiches go.