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Never except when making Grilled Cheese. BTW. It's very important to NEVER actually cut the bread after making a sandwich. It should be left whole and intact otherwise the flavor will leak out of the sandwich and especially the bread :-)
This poll is about a sandwich (open face or regular) - NOT bread & butter, biscuit, muffin, toast etc.
I would like to know because, I just read that (most) Americans don't put butter on their sandwich.
Where I come from everyone puts butter on their sandwich - open face (most popular) or regular. Even on a sandwich with mayo type salad on it. It's pretty much unheard to eat dry bread with topping on it.
I would have to be very desperate to eat dry bread with toppings and I would dislike it, no matter what's on the top
What do you do? Would you care to elaborate?
Here's a story - one time my mother put 'butter' on my PB&J sandwich instead of peanut butter and I refused to eat it. She made me sit at the table until I ate it and finally relented after a couple of hours.
I prefer Mayo, mustard, etc.
IF I'm toasting the bread, which is rare, I might put a little butter on it but never on plain white bread.
I'll use butter if making grilled sandwich, but I don't butter cold bread for making one. I'll use mustard, sometimes mayonnaise, seldom anything else.
I do wonder a bit when you say "butter the bread" if you really mean butter or margarine or if you mean any spread based on what poll choices you gave. I don't count mustard for example as "buttering the bread" but from the wording of the poll, perhaps you do. Which could account for the variety of answers.
No, I actually meant buttering the bread with butter or butter substitute (some people eat margarine, or what they sell now butter with olive oil).
As you probably noticed by now, spreading butter on bread seems to be an European thing. Perhaps because the bread over there is different? I never ate white bread until I came to the US, I mean the Wonder bread type. I guess on that bread it doesn't make difference mayo is as good. Then yesterday I read about Americans not using butter on bread, and lots of them preferring dry bread for a sandwich. That's why I created that poll. Of course, as you see, lots of people use mayo, or mustard, or some sauces... Those people wouldn't vote at all because of limited choices. So, I added them to the poll. But I am mainly interested on the first and last choice.
It's not a critique or anything, just curiosity since I just don't know better. Even after so many years living here, I still learn new stuff about customs.
I have never heard of putting butter on a sandwich, so no I have never tried it (except for Grilled Cheese or Grilled Ham and Cheese). I do put butter on toast though.
(And on toast it has to be real butter, I don't like margarine)
On sandwiches I usually use mayo or sometimes some other sauce like honey mustard, hot mustard or Italian Dressing, etc.
My Grandma was from Germany and she hated White Bread. So I grew up with a big preference for the darker breads. (I do eat the white kind for peanut butter though!)
On the rare occasion I may put some brown mustard on as well as some oil/vinegar but that's not what I call buttering. Usually it's salt, pepper and/or oregano.
For those of you who use butter for your grilled cheese sandwiches ... I HIGHLY recommend that you try a thin schmear of mayo instead (yes, on the outside).
It browns and crisps up beautifully without the greasiness of butter. It sounds crazy, but I promise, it's a game changer!
For those of you who use butter for your grilled cheese sandwiches ... I HIGHLY recommend that you try a thin schmear of mayo instead (yes, on the outside).
It browns and crisps up beautifully without the greasiness of butter. It sounds crazy, but I promise, it's a game changer!
I might just try that. I love grilled cheese sandwiches, but it's a heart attack on a plate.
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