So, I stumbled across some videos of James May back in the Covid Era making sandwiches he had as a boy in the 70s. The number one thing I noticed? He buttered the bread. Every time.
I don't do that. I use mayo and mustard, but I don't butter the bread (unless I'm toasting it, and even then, I butter the OUTSIDE).
Do you butter your bread? And if so, where are you located?
@dolari First of all, Brits have their own unique quandary over whether to butter on the bread or on the jam. Before watching UK TV I had no idea there was such a thing as putting jam on bread then butter. Not sure what that would accomplish with real butter anyway; isn't that why they use clotted creme?
Second, maybe they don't mean real butter. It would drag and rip up the bread.
Third, buttering on the outside I can see if you don't have a non-stick skillet.
Fourth, if I want a buttery flavor I tend to go with Mascarpone or Creme Fraiche on the inside and leave butter for cooking.
@dolari always buttered bread - grew up with salted butter in a glass container on the counter all the time. Doesn't rip the bread. These days i buy whipped butter once a year for sandwiches or whatever and only ever butter toast if it's with a real breakfast. I don't buy salted butter (except for whipped), so i can't leave it out like days of yore
grew up in L.A. county; folks from europe (northern and southern)
@dolari@driveinsaturday.org Yep, I butter my bread most of the time. Location is Australia.
@dolari@driveinsaturday.org I don't, except in the way you do for grilled cheese and similar sandwiches, but my grandmother did. She was born in Oregon, but by the time I was a kid she had spent a couple decades in Arkansas, too, before moving back to the Pacific Northwest. So I grew up with buttered sandwiches.
I hate them.
Probably doesn't help it was actually margarine, but being actually butter doesn't help much.