Do you butter your sandwich? (ingredients, grilled, tuna, avocado)

[elnina]

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?

[DubbleT]

Well, I can't really do the poll since I can only pick one, but No, I don't use butter unless it's a grilled sandwich or a pickle and onion sandwich. Generally it's some type of mustard, mayo, or veggie spread. I've never actually heard of people using butter as an all purpose type of sandwich spread/condiment before.

[evening sun]

If I am making a very plain sandwich, such as cheese OR Ham, then I will use butter, if I am adding lettice, tomatoes & other veggies, then I will use mayo. Or avocado if I need to use up a ripe one. One deli I used to go to, offered sandwiches "European style" which meant no mayo, just butter. So mine varies, depending on what I am putting between the bread & also what I need to use up.

[BeaSeo]

My wife's family butters their sandwiches. My family uses mayonnaise on their sandwiches. I sometimes like a plain sandwich of just sourdough bread, honey ham, and swiss cheese; and it has to be good sourdough bread that is chewy with a tang.

[mainebrokerman]

not if other condiments....flavors are going on the bread..

however ...butter now is very good for us so I melt butter on meats and even some green veggies...

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by elnina

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?

I grew up with butter on sandwiches (actually margarine) but I didn't eat straight mayonnaise until I was an adult (meaning I ate it in tuna or chicken salad, but not as a sandwich spread). However, when making something like a peanut butter sandwich, I didn't put butter on it. That would have been superfluous. Of course when we got older and cholesterol became a known thing, it made sense not to put butter on sandwiches, and by then I would only use real butter, not margarine.

So, I was shocked when I met my last S.O. and he put butter on every sandwich whether peanut butter was going on next or mayonnaise. I thought what he gave me was the best peanut butter toast I'd ever had, and it turned out he was using a crappy sugar-added brand like Skippy or Jif instead of a natural peanut butter, but that he'd put butter on first and that's why it tasted so good.

It's tastier that way, but it adds a lot of extra calories.

I can still see my mother 50 years ago with all the slices of bread laid out in the morning on the kitchen table as she buttered the bread and then made sandwiches for my father and us seven kids.

[fishbrains]

Never butter or mayo. Occasionally mustard, depending on other ingredients.

I find that once you add lettuce, tomato, onion, peppers, pickles, Tabasco, and/or salsa, there is no need for butter.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I butter my sandwich on the outside if I am making a grilled cheese sandwich. I use dairy butter.

[5-all]

Butter only on fresh sliced chicken or turkey or onion sandwich.
Plenty of mustard on the bread for other sandwiches although I don't often eat sandwiches.

[hertfordshire]

I don't eat sandwiches anymore, but when I did, I ate pretty boring sandwiches. Usually meat and cheese. No condiments. I've never been much of a condiment person.

My father however used to slather the butter on thick. But he loooooved butter. Could eat it straight out of the butter dish, if my mother wouldn't have fussed at him.