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Triangles or Halves

Post by Longsider » Tue May 27, 2025 9:00 am

In true close season boredom I was wondering what the consensus is. When cutting a slice of toast is it into two halves going from top to bottom of the slice of bread or triangles by cutting from top to bottom corners diagonal.
For me it's always triangles, my wife is always halves. Watching my two children cut up their toast this morning they are also of the triangle persuasion. My work is done.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Tue May 27, 2025 9:04 am

Eat it in one slice or cut it into soldiers for your egg.

Honestly

We used to be a proper country

Woke nonsense
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Ric_C » Tue May 27, 2025 9:05 am

I've always cut in halves from the left to the right, as I quite like eating a top half and a bottom half :D

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by LeadBelly » Tue May 27, 2025 9:07 am

Top and bottom halves for me too, eat the bottom rectangular half first then the rounded half.
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Roosterbooster » Tue May 27, 2025 9:26 am

Rectangle slice: cut into top and bottom halves

Square(ish) slice: triangles

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Rileybobs » Tue May 27, 2025 9:32 am

Triangles are halves. If you insist on cutting, the most efficient way is to make the cut across the width of the bread. This expends less energy and results in less debris.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by TheFamilyCat » Tue May 27, 2025 9:41 am

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by bobinho » Tue May 27, 2025 9:48 am

The only cutting of toast should be in the shape of soldiers for dipping in your chucky egg.

Other than that, butter it and eat it like a man.
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by rufus lumley » Tue May 27, 2025 9:53 am

Doorstop.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Bosscat » Tue May 27, 2025 10:22 am

Take a thick slice of Sourdough bread, toast it and thickly spread with butter, when thats melted into the hot toast spread with mashed Avocado, salt and pepper to taste then top with a poached Egg.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Tue May 27, 2025 10:32 am

Bosscat wrote:
Tue May 27, 2025 10:22 am
Take a thick slice of Sourdough bread, toast it and thickly spread with butter, when thats melted into the hot toast spread with mashed Avocado, salt and pepper to taste then top with a poached Egg.
Pfft never get a mortgage carrying on like that ;)

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Spike » Tue May 27, 2025 5:55 pm

If you’re having stress over the shape of your toast then just have crumpets

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Folkestoneclaret » Tue May 27, 2025 5:57 pm

If you''re a Blackburn fan it should be halves, or maybe ever-decreasing circles...
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Stanbill05 » Tue May 27, 2025 6:26 pm

Folded lengthways on my own, cut triangles for company. One should be flexible.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Rowls » Tue May 27, 2025 6:37 pm

One of each for variety.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by claretblue » Tue May 27, 2025 6:41 pm

bobinho wrote:
Tue May 27, 2025 9:48 am
The only cutting of toast should be in the shape of soldiers for dipping in your chucky egg.

Other than that, butter it and eat it like a man.
…or like a woman! 8-)

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by DCWat » Tue May 27, 2025 7:09 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Tue May 27, 2025 10:22 am
Take a thick slice of Sourdough bread, toast it and thickly spread with butter, when thats melted into the hot toast spread with mashed Avocado, salt and pepper to taste then top with a poached Egg.
I just can’t get on the avocado bandwagon.

At a push, I can eat it if it’s covered in sauce as part of a prawn cocktail, but on toast with an egg, nope. Too much sliminess going on with the avocado and egg yolk and they don’t taste that great either.

Now if you’d stopped at buttered sourdough with an egg, that’s a different story.
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Conroy92 » Tue May 27, 2025 7:59 pm

DCWat wrote:
Tue May 27, 2025 7:09 pm
I just can’t get on the avocado bandwagon.

At a push, I can eat it if it’s covered in sauce as part of a prawn cocktail, but on toast with an egg, nope. Too much sliminess going on with the avocado and egg yolk and they don’t taste that great either.

Now if you’d stopped at buttered sourdough with an egg, that’s a different story.
I was never a fan. And someone made me a very simple sandwich of roast chicken slices and some avocado, like another poster further up said, plenty of salt and pepper. Delicious.

Back to toast. Im a full slice man. No cut needed. Often biting round the crust first to leave the buttery centre. I'm 32 with the eating habits of a ten year old.

For a great combination with toast, leftover chilli cannot be beaten!
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by SPC&G » Tue May 27, 2025 9:24 pm

I like avocado with salmon in those sushi boxes from supermarkets. Would never have eaten it otherwise but it’s ok, honestly. I surprise myself sometimes. It’s whole slice for me but halves for butties. Never triangles.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by ecc » Wed May 28, 2025 6:54 am

Triangles every time. It's a given.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 8:51 am

I was sure this was gonna be the old corner flag argument.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by BleedingClaret » Fri May 30, 2025 7:18 pm

I thought what a silly irrelevant thread topic

Then I thought Halves obviously,
I always feel cheated in some way by triangles, even though I know that makes no sense

But they just seem so pretentious

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 7:22 pm

Went to Robertshaws in Skipton for a full English this morning.

My mate was given halves, I was given triangles.

That kind of inconsistency is unacceptable.
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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Rowls » Fri May 30, 2025 7:25 pm

Triangles don't work well if the bread is too rectangulary.

Triangles is best with squarest bread.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 7:27 pm

Rowls wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:25 pm
Triangles don't work well if the bread is too rectangulary.

Triangles is best with squarest bread.
I'm actually quite taken with those irregular triangles.

I find them obtuse, though soon tamed with butter.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Bosscat » Fri May 30, 2025 7:29 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:22 pm
Went to Robertshaws in Skipton for a full English this morning.

My mate was given halves, I was given triangles.

That kind of inconsistency is unacceptable.
The Chef in Robertshaws has a look and decides who looks a Triangley and who looks a Halfy ... you obviously exude a triangley vibe Doug ;) and your mate a halfy look

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Rowls » Fri May 30, 2025 7:40 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:27 pm
I'm actually quite taken with those irregular triangles.

I find them obtuse, though soon tamed with butter.
Scalenes are the worst triangles. Everybody knows it.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by CoolClaret » Fri May 30, 2025 8:03 pm

For toasties, I like triangles; for sandwiches, I like rectangles.

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 8:16 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:29 pm
The Chef in Robertshaws has a look and decides who looks a Triangley and who looks a Halfy ... you obviously exude a triangley vibe Doug ;) and your mate a halfy look
He's a big ******, I'll tell you that- French, he could play no 8 for Les Blues!

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 8:23 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:29 pm
The Chef in Robertshaws has a look and decides who looks a Triangley and who looks a Halfy ... you obviously exude a triangley vibe Doug ;) and your mate a halfy look
He's a big ******, I'll tell you that- French, he could play no 8 for Les Bleus!

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by dougcollins » Fri May 30, 2025 9:34 pm

I'll say that again, he's a..

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Bosscat » Fri May 30, 2025 11:11 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 9:34 pm
I'll say that again, he's a..
Is he a big ******** 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Bosscat » Fri May 30, 2025 11:15 pm

Rowls wrote:
Fri May 30, 2025 7:40 pm
Scalenes are the worst triangles. Everybody knows it.
If the breads rectangular a Scalenes the bestest, but if its square an Isoceles a cracker, rare to find an Equilateral trangle slice of tast unless the breads been squished 🤣

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Re: Triangles or Halves

Post by Rowls » Sat May 31, 2025 8:23 am

Warburtons need to invent the parallelo-loaf.

What do want?

Equilateral toast

When do want it?

Breakfast time

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