ButterGate: American in Paris says it's ‘weird' to put butter on a sandwich, causing European uproar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How bizarre. Butter on sandwiches is very common in the U.S. - this is how I grew up making sandwiches.

I'm from the UK and it was one of the clear cultural differences for me. No butter on a ham and cheese. No butter on an egg salad sandwich. Never seen a sandwich in the US (outside of one I've made) with e.g. butter, cheese, and pickle.

Would you put butter on your PB&J? On your Italian meatball sub? Your BLT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How bizarre. Butter on sandwiches is very common in the U.S. - this is how I grew up making sandwiches.

Do you only eat your own sandwiches? Because almost everyone here agrees that this is very uncommon and we've never seen it anywhere in the US.

[Anonymous]

I don't like butter or mayo on my sandwiches, unless it's to cook a grilled cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone go to another country and then publicly criticize their food practices just because it’s different from what they are used to? What’s next, she’s going to go to India and complain that it’s weird that people eat Indian food there?


This woman does not sound intelligent.

Influencer. Says it all.

[Anonymous]

It's not common in the US, in my experience. I've only ever buttered the outside of sandwich bread for grilled cheese. That said, it certainly makes as much sense as mayo. Conversely, I've swapped out butter for mayo on the outside of a grilled cheese, works well.

I think I'll try butter as a sandwich spread out next time I'm trying to get my kids to eat a non-PBJ sandwich. They both refuse to have mayo or mustard, but who really wants a dry coldcut sandwich. It needs something.

[Anonymous]

Butter on what kind of sandwiches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Butter on what kind of sandwiches?

Butter on EVERY sandwich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How bizarre. Butter on sandwiches is very common in the U.S. - this is how I grew up making sandwiches.

I'm from the UK and it was one of the clear cultural differences for me. No butter on a ham and cheese. No butter on an egg salad sandwich. Never seen a sandwich in the US (outside of one I've made) with e.g. butter, cheese, and pickle.

Would you put butter on your PB&J? On your Italian meatball sub? Your BLT?

My dad put butter on PB&Js but he would eat butter on everything. Even Ritz crackers. I don’t think he’s ever eaten a sandwich with meat on it with butter, though.

[Anonymous]

Americans always cause problems no matter where they go. And so LOUD!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans always cause problems no matter where they go. And so LOUD!

Until you want our military to help you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Americans always cause problems no matter where they go. And so LOUD!

Until you want our military to help you.

We don't want your killers. Take them back along with your mayo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to the US from western Europe roughly a thousand years ago.

But it's only very recently that I learned that most Americans don't put butter on their bread.

i remain shook.

Weirdos.

Everything feels unsettling and I question everything now.

Before you feel too unsettled, we do but butter on bread, just not on sandwiches. But, I agree. It’s better than mayo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans always cause problems no matter where they go. And so LOUD!

Go on your Polish or German version of DCUM then

[Anonymous]

Indian married to an American DH and I feel this so hard! We literally start by putting butter first on bread regardless of what else goes on the bread, if anything! Peanut butter, cold cuts, cheese, you name it, any sandwich should always start with butter for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How bizarre. Butter on sandwiches is very common in the U.S. - this is how I grew up making sandwiches.

I'm from the UK and it was one of the clear cultural differences for me. No butter on a ham and cheese. No butter on an egg salad sandwich. Never seen a sandwich in the US (outside of one I've made) with e.g. butter, cheese, and pickle.

Would you put butter on your PB&J? On your Italian meatball sub? Your BLT?

The best pb&j is made on toasted buttered bread. Try it and come back and tell us about it.