Do You Butter Your Sandwiches?

Do you butter your sandwiches?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 50.0%

  • No

    Votes: 5 27.8%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Total voters
    18
Windigo said:
I eat toast with salted butter and a cup of tea each morning, sometimes an egg and butter on said toast too.

But I never butter any other sandwiches, and if some kind of spread is required like with a sub I use mayo instead of butter. I really don't like the flavor of butter combined with deli meats, or lettuce or anything but the above when it comes to bread really.
I do butter the outside of a grilled cheese to make it crispy, but that's the only exception.
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Yeah, I hadn't thought about it before but the idea of lettuce or tomatoes with butter doesn't seem appealing.
 
I had to go back in my memories for some of these:

Bacon and mushroom - no
Bacon and tomato - no
Sausage - no
Salmon - yes
Cheese - yes
Pickled onion - yes
Prawns - yes
Fish - yes
Chips - yes
Haslet - yes
Pork stuffing - yes
Cold ham - yes
Gammon - no
Roast beef - yes
Roast pork - yes
Cheese - yes
Tomato - yes
Pâté - yes
Boiled egg - yes
Fried egg - no
Spread - yes
Beef steak - no
Dripping - no
Fried Spam - no
Banana - no
Cucumber - yes
Ice cream - no idea

There could be more.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Just never tried it on sandwiches.
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'In' not 'on' in the UK. Here if you put something on a sandwich you would be putting it on the outside of the sandwich (unless it was an open sandwich). Another language difference. A small thing but could cause big misunderstandings!
 
Morning Glory said:
Furthermore, your nomenclature is wrong. We would never call it a butter (plus whatever) sandwich, The butter is not mentioned its just taken as read its there.
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So true....I'd find it a bit strange if I received a sandwich that didn't have butter or marge on it, but I don't expect it to be mentioned on the menu.

Day to day I use either unsalted butter or Bertolli. Depending what filling I'm having I very occasionally use cream cheese instead (in an effort to save calories). I don't think I've ever tried mayo as a butter replacement.....seems like it would make the bread too soggy? Even if for example I was having an egg mayo sandwich, I'd still butter the bread first.
 
Yorky said:
I had to go back in my memories for some of these:

Bacon and mushroom - no
Bacon and tomato - no
Sausage - no
Salmon - yes
Cheese - yes
Pickled onion - yes
Prawns - yes
Fish - yes
Chips - yes
Haslet - yes
Pork stuffing - yes
Cold ham - yes
Gammon - no
Roast beef - yes
Roast pork - yes
Cheese - yes
Tomato - yes
Pâté - yes
Boiled egg - yes
Fried egg - no
Spread - yes
Beef steak - no
Dripping - no
Fried Spam - no
Banana - no
Cucumber - yes
Ice cream - no idea

There could be more.
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Slow morning? :okay:
 
Morning Glory said:
I couldn't eat a tomato sandwich without butter.
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I couldn't eat a tomato "in" a sandwich without mayonnaise.

We Muricans say "on", sorry. I get what you mean, you're right technically, but it's just the way it's phrased here usually.
 
MrsDangermouse said:
So true....I'd find it a bit strange if I received a sandwich that didn't have butter or marge on it, but I don't expect it to be mentioned on the menu.

Day to day I use either unsalted butter or Bertolli. Depending what filling I'm having I very occasionally use cream cheese instead (in an effort to save calories). I don't think I've ever tried mayo as a butter replacement.....seems like it would make the bread too soggy? Even if for example I was having an egg mayo sandwich, I'd still butter the bread first.
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No, it doesn't make the bread soggy in my experience.
 
caseydog said:
One of these days I'm going to learn what to eat. Apparently I've been doing it all wrong for 60 years.

CD
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I didn't say you were wrong in what you eat. I was referring to differences in use of language in the UK v US and that the way you described a sandwich with butter would be the wrong way to say it in the UK. What I wrote was meant in jest. :)

Nobody is trying to say one way of talking is better than the other - or indeed that sandwiches are better in one country or the other - just different.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
We Muricans say "on", sorry. I get what you mean, you're right technically, but it's just the way it's phrased here usually.
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I know you do. No need to apologise! That was my point. We say 'in' and you say 'on'. I thought it amusing the misunderstanding that could arise. I mean, if I said I'm making a ham sandwich and you said 'can I have egg on it?', I'd think you meant an egg on top of the ham sandwich like this:

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Could be quite nice though...
 
Morning Glory said:
I know you do. No need to apologise! That was my point. We say 'in' and you say 'on'. I thought it amusing the misunderstanding that could arise. I mean, if I said I'm making a ham sandwich and you said 'can I have egg on it?', I'd think you meant an egg on top of the ham sandwich like this:

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Could be quite nice though...
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I noticed that Mrs. Dangermouse did the same thing as I did, she wrote "on".
Morning Glory said:
I didn't say you were wrong in what you eat. I was referring to differences in use of language in the UK v US and that the way you described a sandwich with butter would be the wrong way to say it in the UK. What I wrote was meant in jest. :)

Nobody is trying to say one way of talking is better than the other - or indeed that sandwiches are better in one country or the other - just different.
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He was just being a snarky smartypants!
 
Yorky said:
I had to go back in my memories for some of these:

Bacon and mushroom - no
Bacon and tomato - no
Sausage - no
Salmon - yes
Cheese - yes
Pickled onion - yes
Prawns - yes
Fish - yes
Chips - yes
Haslet - yes
Pork stuffing - yes
Cold ham - yes
Gammon - no
Roast beef - yes
Roast pork - yes
Cheese - yes
Tomato - yes
Pâté - yes
Boiled egg - yes
Fried egg - no
Spread - yes
Beef steak - no
Dripping - no
Fried Spam - no
Banana - no
Cucumber - yes
Ice cream - no idea

There could be more.
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Are you saying you make sandwiches with the above ingredients? About half of them I would never put between two slices of bread (or even atop one). I like ice cream sandwiches...on cookies/British biscuits! But on bread?
 
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