Twitter Asks the Most Important Question of Our Time: How Do You Cut Toast?

If you’re in the mood for an argument, there are a few great, polarising food debates to pick from. Perhaps your mum just made you tea and put the milk in first, or your mate eats spaghetti by slicing it with a knife. And is that … is that pineapple on your sister’s pizza? Either way, we understand the urge to have huge, disproportional beef over the minutia of what and how we eat. Maybe even a physical fight.

A student night run by Sheffield Hallam University recently found itself embroiled in one of these food-based frenzies. Taking to Twitter on Saturday, club night “Hallamnation” reached out to its audience to determine how best to serve toast at the end of an evening.

What ensued next was a Twitter-wide argument to solve one of the biggest debates of the century: how the heck do you cut your toast?

This is not the first time Twitter has been used as a litmus test for food preferences. There was the controversial Pop-Tart cheese sandwich that should just burn in a fiery hell and never be spoken of again, the woman who created an international furore over whether sugar cookies are nice or trash, and or the guy who literally got an emoji changed because of his tweet about a burger.

No matter your toast, sugar cookie, or Pop-Tart preference, it’s clear that food has the ability to evoke strong emotions in all of us.

And, in case you were wondering, the right choice is option one.