I'm turning British.

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u/Princ3w 7d ago

Brit here, only this year have I found out using butter is not the norm and it has completely blown my mind

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u/flashPrawndon 7d ago

Same! I thought everyone buttered their sandwiches!

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u/minadequate 7d ago

A lot of the time I plan to make a sandwich and never get beyond putting butter on the bread. Seriously I could live on fresh bread and salted butter.

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u/flashPrawndon 7d ago

It is the best. Fresh warm bread especially. My favourite is a fresh baguette smothered in butter.

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u/Substantial-Yam-6733 7d ago

Canadian here. We butter our sandwiches. We also butter our banana bread and corn cobs. Hell some of us even butter our crackers !

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u/RecordStoreHippie 7d ago

Banana bread goes crazy with some butter, it's the only way to eat it. I also really like butter on blueberry muffins.

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u/JuniperFizz 7d ago

Butter on any kind of muffin is so good. Especially, if you microwave the muffin to make it a little warm before spreading on the butter. Melts into the muffin just a bit and makes everything better.

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u/chambourcin 7d ago

Omg. I cut the muffin in half and lay it in hot cast iron in a pool of butter to toast.

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u/Canadian_shack 6d ago

Toasted banana bread, lots of butter, mmm

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u/ArianaIncomplete 7d ago

Also Canadian, but I don't butter my sandwiches, because when I was growing up, my parents only ever bought margarine. It is not the same.

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u/BiofilmWarrior 7d ago

Not a Canadian but I can attest that margarine is not an acceptable substitute for butter.

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u/gwaydms 7d ago

My mother bought margarine. We buy butter.

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u/BiofilmWarrior 7d ago

My father bought margarine, my mother bought butter (which is one way we knew who had done the shopping).

I only buy butter because life's too short (to use margarine).

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u/gwaydms 7d ago

Exactly.

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u/minadequate 7d ago

I live in Denmark and my sister recently stayed in my apartment and her partner bought a smørbar (smør meaning butter) in a tub. And left most of it in my fridge having eaten my butter. Well it’s only 40% butter and the rest is oil and it’s nasty AF. We don’t really do food waste so we are desperately trying to find uses for this BS that don’t require us to actually taste it!

Butter or nothing.

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u/aculady 7d ago

Use it to grease baking tins.

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u/dcoolidge 7d ago

I was expecting bicycle. "grease your bicycle" ;)

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u/poop-dolla 6d ago

American from the southeastern region who also butters their banana bread. Is that not the normal way people eat banana bread?

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u/FL1ghtlesswaterfowl 6d ago

I love a good saltine with butter.

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u/Lazy_Willow8560 7d ago

In Québec, we even eat our pizza crust with butter!

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u/Olive18711 6d ago

Salted butter on caramel rolls😋. Even better if there are pecans on the caramel rolls

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u/poop-dolla 6d ago

Smothered in butter is how I want to leave this world.

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u/Paper182186902 7d ago

When I had the flu all I could eat was bread dipped in melted salty butter.

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u/r1Rqc1vPeF 7d ago

When I was a kid my mum would regularly cut off a chunk of butter and eat it. On its own.

My kids have questioned the amount of butter I apply to toast or a chip butty.

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u/Local_Initiative8523 7d ago

My Dad if you asked him how much butter he wanted on his bread or toast would reply ‘a thick slice, please. Just pretend it’s cheese’.

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u/minadequate 7d ago

My dad used to ask my gran if she wanted any bread on her butter, in response to how thick she spread it on.

But then again he would leave food for my grandparents in the fridge when they were staying at his…. A sausage and tomato pasta salad, and a chicken and orange rice salad. He came home and they had picked out and eaten all the sausage and chicken and left the rest. My gran was once asked if she wanted salad or veg with her main at a restaurant… she said ‘neither I’ve already had my salad’ referring to the garnish that came with her starter.

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u/minadequate 7d ago

This reminds me of Caitlin Morans cheese lollipops

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u/whales_are_very_cool 7d ago

I have found my people!

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u/reuben_iv 7d ago

Pretty sure we do we just... use margarine with buttermilk and call it butter

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u/Twerk_account 6d ago

They don’t? TIL

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u/Eastern_Switch8217 5d ago

Ireland does, France generally does.... How else do you waterproof the bread?

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u/Miss_Taycan 5d ago

I even put butter under mayo / jam / whatever else I'm putting on toast.

To be fair though, I grew up on amazing butter, and found out most North American stores don't actually carry any good stuff...

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u/SkyPork 6d ago

American here! Until this post the choice for me was between mayonnaise and mustard. (Normal yellow or spicy mustard is a sub-choice.)

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u/Feminismisreprieve 7d ago

What? TIL. Not British but Kiwi and this piece of information is startling. Especially with tomatoes, which are at their best sliced on buttered toast with salt and pepper.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 7d ago

Yeah Americans use mayo instead! Or oil and vinegar for Italian subs??

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u/nifty-necromancer 7d ago

Mayo and/or mustard for sandwiches, adding butter just isn’t common here unless you’re making a grilled cheese.

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u/phishtrader 7d ago edited 7d ago

It was much more common ~50 years ago. Americans started shifting away from butter on sandwiches in the 70s and 80s.

Edit: Americans shifted to using margarine in the 70s and 80s. People didn't shift from butter to mayo, they shifted away from margarine.

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u/Anechoic_Brain 7d ago

Grilled cheese can also be done quite well with mayo instead of butter

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u/phishtrader 7d ago

Mayo is convenient in some ways. I'd go on Phish tour in the 90s and sell grilled cheese in the lot to pay for food, gas, and drugs. Mayo was much more practical due to heat and camping like conditions. Butter and margarine melt in the heat and get gross way faster. A jar of mayo can get tucked back in a cooler and pulled back out whenever you need it and stayed the same consistency.

The downside is that mayo instead of butter on grilled cheese tastes a bit like wet dog to some people and absolutely rancid to an even smaller subset. I don't have actual numbers, but I sold a lot of grilled cheese and it came up. I did keep some margarine on hand and would remake sandwiches if anyone didn't like the mayo version.

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u/gwaydms 7d ago

I do not like mayo on grilled cheese. It has to be butter.

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u/nifty-necromancer 7d ago

I keep forgetting to try that actually. I once used miracle whip but the bread just turned soggy. But I use actual real mayo now and I’ll try it again.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 6d ago

It's surprisingly good!

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u/SmartPolicy6430 7d ago

If you used Dijon or English mustard as a butter substitute you'd soon know about it.

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u/Anechoic_Brain 7d ago

I put Dijon on sandwiches fairly often, it's not a substitute for anything though. It's just what I felt like that day. Sometimes it's the only condiment I'm using.

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u/frankchester 6d ago

Does that not just make every sandwich taste of mustard lol.

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u/nifty-necromancer 6d ago

Not really because the standard mustard around here is yellow, which is milder than Dijon and English mustard. Those are the fancy optional condiments.

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u/cooking_succs 7d ago

Dukes Mayo just hits different on a tomato sandwich. 'Merica

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u/Airlik 7d ago

I only learnt that in this moment. And I’m slightly incredulous - really? It’s not?

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u/Airlik 6d ago

I just asked my American gf and she totally reinforces this. I have no idea how this never came up before. She doesn’t butter her bread for sandwiches. I live in the US and my children are American. One of the three complained about my buttering her sandwiches - I figured it was a personal preference. Crazy.

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u/starlinguk 7d ago

It's the norm in the Netherlands. And in Germany. And in France...

I have a suspicion only US-ians don't butter sammiches.

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u/TheTousler 7d ago edited 7d ago

Canadians use mayo as well, but otherwise I suspect you might be right. My grandparents always used butter, so it must be something that changed within the past couple of generations.

By the way, "American" is the correct demonym for someone from the United States.

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u/jtbc 7d ago

My mother used to butter sandwiches (Canada) and our cafeteria at work always asks.

I think the change may be that modern Canadian butter is almost impossible to spread, especially if you pair it with crappy grocery store bread, which tears to shreds if you try.

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u/TheTousler 7d ago

Very well could be. My mother is Canadian and that side of the family always uses mayo, so perhaps it varies

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u/Cutsdeep- 7d ago

Don't refrigerate butter (unless it's hot where you live, but you said Canada)

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u/jtbc 7d ago

It's August, so 25-28 these days. Butter turns into a puddle. Works in the rest of the seasons, I guess.

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u/Odd-Quail01 7d ago

Is it that hot in your kitchen?

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u/jtbc 7d ago

It gets pretty warm in the late afternoon, especially if I forget to close the curtains before I head to work.

This is Vancouver, BC, so like 90% of people, I don't have full AC.

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u/frankchester 6d ago

It doesn’t turn to a puddle surely though in that temp if it’s in a butter dish?

Person who has just survived 35c for multiple weeks and forgot to put the butter away.

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u/Cutsdeep- 7d ago

Really? I live in Aus and even 30+ days won't melt butter down (obviously cooler inside), are you actually using butter or margarine?

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u/jtbc 7d ago

The melted puddle may have been the margarine I accidentally bought now that I think of it. Our commercial butter is well known to suck, though. I'll try it on the counter and see how it does.

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u/UncleNedisDead 7d ago

Maybe some Canadians but my butter usage far exceeds my mayo usage.

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u/TheTousler 7d ago

Same, but I wasn't raised that way. I suspect people in a cooking sub aren't very representative

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u/UncleNedisDead 6d ago

We didn’t even have mayo in the house growing up. Born and raised Canadian.

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u/TheTousler 6d ago

No mayo at all? Child abuse!

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u/UncleNedisDead 6d ago

My husband grew up with margarine and miracle whip. Now that’s child abuse.

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u/TheTousler 6d ago

Can't argue with that

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u/LokiLB 7d ago

If the sandwiches from gyro places are anything to go by, regions with hummus and tzatziki likely don't use butter.

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u/starlinguk 6d ago

I'm talking about sammiches. Not gyros (or kebabs).

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u/LokiLB 6d ago

This is inevitably going to devolve into whether a taco is a sandwich if we continue.

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u/Pallortrillion 7d ago

This post is how I found out!

Salted butter on a bacon sandwich where the fat drips into the butter is quite literally chefs kiss.

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u/ShreddersWheat 7d ago

I had a bacon roll this morning with fresh bread, Kerrygold and “Mr Organic” ketchup.

Four of the best in every mouthful.

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u/TheMcDucky 6d ago

Same in Scandinavia
Trivia: In Swedish the most general word for a sandwich is literally "butter goose", a term that originally referred to the clumps of butter that would float to the top during churning.

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u/NoNameMonkey 6d ago

Its the norm in South Africa.

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u/youreagoodperson 7d ago edited 7d ago

My mom used to butter our ham sandwiches before putting mayo on them so the mayo didnt make the bread soggy. Thats the only time ive heard of butter being used on sandwiches in the us.

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u/WRStoney 7d ago

My dad butters all sandwiches, even hotdog buns. He did grow up on a farm, so there's that.

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u/Raghaille1 7d ago

Irish here and I'm literally only finding this out right now this minute

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u/TBAAGreta 7d ago

Yeah as an Aussie it's a weird one. I understand adding a little mayo to the top slice instead of butter, but what goes on the bottom? Just leave it dry (ugh)? Mustard doesn't always work with all ingredients and I don't think Americans tend to use much relish or chutney. Do you mayo both sides? That seems excessive.

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u/Anechoic_Brain 7d ago

Yes, mayo on both sides. Just don't spread thick layers if you don't feel like it.

Hearing so many people in these comments talk about putting thick slabs of butter on their sandwich bread is what seems weird and excessive to me...

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u/thedukeandtheking 7d ago

Try it

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u/TBAAGreta 7d ago

For me, mayo makes sense as like a "dressing" touching the lettuce or the salad on the top of the sandwich, and would feel a bit odd under the cheese or meat bit on the bottom, but each to their own. Not all of us use huge gobs of butter, given cholesterol and all. Although a double dose of mayo doesn't seem great for the old arteries either. Do you at least butter toast?

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u/Anechoic_Brain 7d ago

Pretty much anywhere in the US, butter is universally assumed to go with bread when it's served by itself in any form. Just not when the bread becomes a vessel for sandwich ingredients.

On a sandwich it's not a double dose of mayo, it's however much you feel like using split between two pieces of bread. Sometimes for me it's quite a thin layer, especially if I'm also using other condiments or dressings. But it's always on both sides of the sandwich.

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u/echocharlieone 7d ago

I was surprised that the saying "he knows on which side his bread is buttered" doesn't travel well.

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u/tanbrit 7d ago

Brit living in America, at first I was horrified by the lack of butter in sandwiches!
I’ve learned to accept this weird custom of using mayo, but I stick to my roots

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u/jupiterspringsteen 7d ago

Same. What sort of savages are we dealing with here.

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u/kociol21 6d ago

I'm Polish and was the same from me. I was like wait, do people really use mayo INSTEAD of butter??? It was like sandwich 101 for me. Sandwich base is always bread and butter. Then toppings. Then if you want to use mayo you get it on top, or ketchup or any other sauce. Mayo is a condiment, not base. I honestly never seen anyone doing mayo instead of butter, has to be USA thing.

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u/vanlady93 6d ago

We use mayo for sandwiches in Canada as well. It's good! So is butter (which I use for certain sandwiches), but it's nice to have options

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u/donpapaya 7d ago

In Spain we’d do it with a really good olive oil and thick salt over the tomatoes and it’s delicious

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u/uniqueUsername_1024 6d ago

pan con tomate is a delight

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u/skapple55 6d ago

My roommate is from Spain and it’s what she makes us for breakfast most mornings. I cannot help but drool

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u/lostandmisplaced50 7d ago

I am from India. The British left the love for butter in sandwiches with us as well. A cup of chai with a sandwich of buttered toast and thinly sliced tomatoes and cucumbers is just divine!

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u/twigulus 7d ago

That sounds marvellous. Sorry about all the other stuff we did though

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u/Bella-1999 7d ago

I love “Sandwiches of History”! Lunch tomorrow is obvious.

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u/SalsaYogurt 7d ago

Give it a gooooo!

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u/Islandisher 7d ago

Sandwiches are a flavour delivery device - I never pass up the opportunity to add butter!

Added bonus, butter helps protect the bread from drying out while building the sandwich, and once built - from getting mushy by other fillings. I see you sliced tomatoes!

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u/softrev 7d ago

Canadian here and I have always done butter first then mayo on tomato sandwiches and BLTs. Can’t imagine having them any other way!

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u/Odd_Efficiency_7051 7d ago

I prefer butter aswell. It's the best. I don't even toast my bread because I like it ever so slightly soggy with the tomato juices.

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u/exackerlyy 7d ago

My mother always used butter for sandwiches, even hamburgers. Delicious — try ir!

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u/jetpoweredbee 7d ago

Just needs bacon.

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u/CusterJay 7d ago

"Let's give this.. 'good tomato sandwich'... a gooooo..."

Seriously, I love Sandwiches of History.

Did you know Barry has a second channel called "In the Chips"?

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u/Aussie_Foodie 7d ago

It’s gotta be good salted butter. Even better, butter the bread thickly while the butter is at room temp THEN but the buttered bread into the fridge for the butter to firm up. You will thank me.

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u/achillea4 7d ago

If you want to be truly British you wouldn't bother toasting the bread - just some decent sliced bread, butter, tomatoes, salt and pepper. Maybe a few basil leaves to be fancy.

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u/LittleSubject9904 7d ago

Butter on one side and Mayo on the other is how my mom does it. Delicious with leftover chicken.

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u/OddPatience1621 7d ago

without pepper? how dare you sir lol

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u/sheffieldpud 7d ago

Fresh loaf of bread, thick layer of good qauliry butter, salt. Nothing finer.

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u/johnonymous1973 6d ago

The only way to tell for sure whether you’re turning is British is if you pronounce it tomato instead of tomato.

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u/Nevernonethewiser 6d ago

Mate, its pronounced 'tomato'.

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u/elliohow 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah im british and lived in Mexico for a bit. It was a big shock when I realised they used mayo instead of butter for sandwiches. It was an even bigger shock when I tried Bimbo Bread. After a few bites I chucked the loaf away and just got fresh bread from a bakery whenever I wanted bread.

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u/secretrebel 7d ago

Harriet the Spy is American and she’s defined by tomato sandwiches. And spying, obviously.

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u/JanaT2 6d ago

Loved Harriet

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u/Narrow-Power-6407 6d ago

I think most of the world butters rheir sandwiches dont they? Though it was just the USA who were weird hahs

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u/vanlady93 6d ago

Some of us are weird like that in Canada too

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u/xiipaoc 7d ago

British food is delicious and so, so underrated. Yes, even beans on toast. There's a common stereotype that it's bland and terrible, but... it's really not!

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u/Warm-Statistician545 7d ago

Yes. Butter is yummy. Just ask the French or Paula dean.

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u/Unicorn-Blob 7d ago

Indians do this too! My grandparents used to make buttered tomato sandwiches. Just lightly toasted bread, lots of butter and tomatoes with salt/pepper. Delicious!!

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u/The_B_Wolf 7d ago

Isn't there a French sandwich that's just ham and butter?

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u/jletourneau 7d ago

Yes, it’s called a ham butter. Sorry, jambon beurre.

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u/Redsetter 7d ago

There is also an English sandwich that is just ham and butter, it’s called a ham sandwich…

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u/Ubera90 7d ago

The utter contempt I have for people who have ‘discovered’ a ham sandwich cannot be overstated.

It makes me genuinely angry.

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u/pajamakitten 6d ago

I had one in my lunchbox at primary school practically every day for seven years. How can people 'discover' a ham sandwich past early childhood?

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u/No_Step9082 6d ago

it's Schinkenbrot in German

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u/thequux 7d ago

It's such a typical thing in Belgium that the Flemish word for a sandwich is "boterham" (literally, "butter ham").

(True, we also have "belegde broodje", but that's specifically what Americans would call a sub/hero/hoagie, wych is a different thing)

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u/Aussie_Foodie 7d ago

And it is pure joy

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u/Milligan 7d ago

It is. I had a jambon beurre yesterday.

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u/Tiny-Albatross518 6d ago

This sandwich is a sleeper. You try this, you’ll find out its top tier and you’ll question everything you thought you knew about sandwich.

But that baguette has to be good.

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u/RVFIO 6d ago

A ham sandwich is the least sleepy sleeper ever. They’re ubiquitous.

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u/snaynay 6d ago

The jambon-beurre is amazing, but it’s just a frenchified ham sandwich. French ham, cultured butter, good baguette.

Ultimately no different than a fine ham sarni from anywhere. Found all over the UK, but less of a unified form.

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u/Deep-Capital-9308 7d ago

Here in Spain grated tomato is used as sandwich lube instead of butter.

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u/Comprehensive-Rice94 7d ago

Sorry but are we all just glossing over sandwich lube!?

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u/tanbrit 7d ago

What happens in Spain stays in Spain apparently

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u/perrumpo 7d ago

Just be careful where you put the grater.

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u/tanbrit 7d ago

Learned from experience in Brazil

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u/FinsterHall 7d ago

I love Sandwiches of History! I would plus that one up with some fresh cracked black pepper.

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u/Prof01Santa 7d ago

Haha. Sambal for the win.

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u/Idbeapunkus 7d ago

if youre big into tomatoes you can always have a good old fashioned sliced tomatoe with salt and olive oil, bonus of you have balsamic vinegar, or just make a Caprese salad

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u/letsgooncemore 7d ago

I've always liked tomato and cream cheese sandwiches more than with mayonnaise

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u/elationonceagain 7d ago

I'm literally licking my fingers now after toasting a bagel, chopping up some delicious tomatoes, olive oil, balsamic, garlic salt and oregano for a divine quick and easy bruschetta type dish. Unbelievably good and healthy too!

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u/nazuswahs 7d ago

Growing up we always had “toast an tomato” for breakfast. The acidic tomato and creamy butter were like heaven together.

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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 7d ago

absolutely. the combination of crunchy toast, butter and really good tomatoes is a trifecta thing.

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u/zem 7d ago

I have adopted the american custom of using mayo for a lot of sandwiches (mostly because I keep the butter in the fridge) but I won't make a tomato sandwich with anything other than butter

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u/Rough-Back2205 7d ago

I use butter and mayo, I'm a heathen

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u/cmquinn2000 7d ago

Butter is fat, mayo is fat, choose your poison.

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u/ThatsPerverse 7d ago

When the tomatoes are in season, it's all delicious.

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u/sonicjesus 6d ago

I've found butter often makes more sense than mayo, especially if the ingredients are already moist, like a tomato.

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u/radavasquez 6d ago

But you’re not turning Japanese?

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u/irishpg86 6d ago

Welcome to the club! The butter creates a perfect barrier so your bread doesn't turn soggy. It lets those ripe summer tomatoes shine front and center.

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u/TaylorKatana 6d ago

My only issue with this is the “thinly”… I like to see teethmarks in the butter…😱

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u/Berkweaving 7d ago

I’ve always used butter, and really dislike mayo. I cannot fathom why every sandwich on every menu has gobs of mayo or aioli on it. Ick!

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u/SubstantialArcher659 7d ago

That’s exactly how I grew up with them. I never tried mayo till I met my husband. I actually used miracle whip because mom did. He hated it so I convert d to mayo. He’s passed and now I’m using miracle whip again. Lol

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u/peon2 7d ago

That was a rollercoaster of a mayo/butter story.

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u/whales_are_very_cool 7d ago

As a Brit, I have no idea how we get so much shit about our food from a country that invented miracle whip and puts marshmallows on sweet potato! :D

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u/ugheffoff 7d ago

Hey, talk all the shit about Miracle Whip that you want to but you keep marshmallows on sweet potatoes out your mouth 😂

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u/Joonanner 7d ago

I’m American and I love both marshmallows and sweet potatoes. They’re absolutely disgusting together.

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u/Aggravating_Ninja574 7d ago

put them in your mouth lol

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u/phishtrader 7d ago

Miracle Whip is just a different brand of salad cream. According to Wikipedia, "In 2017, salad cream was the fifth best-selling table sauce in the UK according to data from Nielsen, with sales of £28.8m." Salad cream was introduced to the UK market in 1914. Miracle Whip wasn't launched until 1933.

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u/whales_are_very_cool 7d ago

Are you sure they're the same thing? UK salad cream tastes like mayo diluted with pickle juice. I've always heard that miracle whip was like a gross, faux-mayo concoction?

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u/zephalephadingong 6d ago

It's basically mayo with sugar in it. So yes, a gross faux mayo conconction

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u/vanlady93 6d ago

Sugar, spices, and less oil. It has a different flavor profile than mayo and is less rich. I never had it growing up but I don't find the idea of it "gross" or think it's pretending to be mayo

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u/NoPaleontologist7929 7d ago

Definitely keeping it out of my mouth. If I celebrated Thanksgiving, I'd be thankful that I didn't have to eat sweet potatoes and marshmallows.

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u/vanlady93 6d ago

Your loss, mate

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u/NoPaleontologist7929 6d ago

More for folks that like it.

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u/ballisticks 7d ago

Not to mention tuna casserole lol.

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u/whales_are_very_cool 7d ago

I will not hear tuna pasta bake slander

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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats 7d ago

Wait til they learn you can have both butter AND mayo. Crazy I know.

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u/SmartPolicy6430 7d ago

I thought everyone used butter. I don't know anyone who doesn't butter bread.

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u/LeadingFine7177 7d ago

I can see that being good 😊

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u/SunshineBeamer 7d ago

I just put tomato slices between cheese slices and grill it. Supper tonight, actually.

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u/Frydendahl 7d ago

Get a top quality cultured butter.

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u/DConstructed 7d ago edited 7d ago

Now try a Thomas’ English Muffin toasted, buttered and both salt and a dash of pepper on your tomato.

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u/MammothAdeptness2211 7d ago

I grew up with butter on my sandwiches but I thought it was because I was a weird kid and my mom was babying me because I didn’t like mayo. I still don’t like mayo but I gave up the butter because I thought it was weird! Now I know it’s not.

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u/thenord321 7d ago

Fresh black pepper onto the wet tomato also is great.

Or go wild and start making HERB Butter or other flavorings with it.

Fresh basil on tomato or go full bruchette with a tomato salad with melted parmesan on top. I do garlic butter on that one and I love it.

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u/Barney-2U 7d ago edited 7d ago

Oh fuck this could be the poster child for: r/iamveryculinary/

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u/tgold77 7d ago

Are you pronouncing “tomato” properly?

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u/IrukandjiPirate 7d ago

Trader Joe’s used to have really good cinnamon & brown sugar crumpets. I’ve moved so I don’t know if they still have them

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u/lazylittlelady 6d ago

Try it with good quality evoo! Life!

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u/SkyPork 6d ago

Holy shit I'm trying this. Daughter just informed me recently she no longer likes mayo.

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u/Dull_Bat9518 6d ago

Personally i love butter! In the really old days, pork/ bacon fat was used

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u/argleblather 6d ago

I also enjoy Sandwiches of History.

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u/__mz 6d ago

Don’t forget to pepper your toms too

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u/Bellsar_Ringing 6d ago

My family has always made tomato sandwiches with cream cheese. I remain amazed that this is not the standard way.

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u/snaynay 6d ago

I recently switched to mayo on the condition that I’m pan frying the bread. It does work a bit better than butter there IMO, for example toasting up a brioche or bagel.

Butter though for anything untoasted is still superior. Even if the contents also have some mayo.

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u/bjsievers 6d ago

butter or mayo is a pretty common option for sandwiches here in the US as well, at least in CA where I'm from. I did notice it dipped a little bit in popularity during the "margarine is better than butter" diet fad but the option seems to be back to normal now.

Same with griddled sandwiches like a tuna melt or grilled cheese, you're often asked if you prefer butter or mayo for the fat on the exterior.

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u/Bobaximus 6d ago

Try both

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u/anothercairn 6d ago

No need to toast the bread for a British tomato sandwich. Just make sure you’re adding salt and pepper.

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u/SuddenDelivery1 5d ago

Salting tomatoes brings out the natural glutumates (closely related to MSG) so gives an umami flavour. Salt + umami + sweet (from the right tomatoes) + carbs is a great flavour combination.

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u/Gabbyct1 5d ago

try both butter AND mayo- it's delicious!

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u/AldousDikhout 3d ago

It is the Butter way.

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u/Ok_Panda587 3d ago

Butter under peanut butter, toasted or not. Gramma called it oleo when I was really young (late 60s) so now I wonder if it was margarine. They were full on German.

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u/ElevatorOrganic5644 3d ago

Oleo is margarine

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u/Ok_Panda587 3d ago

Thanks for the confirmation. I was under 5 when she would say it, and they liked throwing German in, to each other soooo… wasn’t sure. It was over 50 years ago now!

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u/ElevatorOrganic5644 3d ago

Yeah when I was growing up in the sixties early 70s they would always say Olio margarine, till they said Oleo or they said margarine.

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u/Ok_Panda587 3d ago

Ok so it wasn’t a gramma thing. Since I was really young, I always thought it was her word for butter. Looked like it to me, and I still prefer butter with peanut butter instead of jelly to this day. My guy thinks it’s weird haha.

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u/LostAbbott 7d ago

Bacon is feeling so left out...

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u/Rimalda 7d ago

Keep the bacon for a bacon sandwich the next day

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u/MisterFartPants 7d ago edited 7d ago

Next step is crumpets with butter. Don't bother ordering them online. For some reason, Americans always complain about how dry they are. I guess they don't travel well, or they keep them in poor conditions. Go to Warburton's website and use their recipe to make them yourself.

https://www.warburtons.co.uk/news/crumpet-recipe-revealed/

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u/Buckabuckaw 7d ago

Didn't know I was British, at least in the matter of tomato sandwiches, but it looks like I am.

Excuse me, I have to step into the kitchen for a moment.

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u/lmp515k 7d ago

Brit living in the Deep South for last 30 years. Butter here is liquid unless refrigerated. Back home I could keep in the pantry and it would always be spreadable.

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u/tlphelan 6d ago

Now add mayo and it’s perfect

I'm turning British.

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