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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never understood why it's so important to not butter your whole piece of bread. If it's s roll, I can see how that would look odd but if it's a sliced style of bread, why not?
Use the communal knife to put it on your plate, use your knife to spread it on the bread seems like an okay way to do it.

-immigrant[/quote]

If you butter the whole slice of bread at once, it is almost impossible to eat without getting butter all around your mouth unless you're baring your teeth when you bite. If you tear off a bit and then butter it, the last part that goes in your mouth is the unbuttered portion that you were holding and your face stays butter-free.[/quote]

I'm completely able to eat bread with butter on it without getting butter all over my mouth.  Same with bread that has jam on it.

I do bite with my teeth (how else does one bite) but not with my lips completely splayed baring all of my teeth. I also don't go out of my way to make sure not a peek of tooth is revealed.  Is this a tradition that originated in England?  I know they tended to have horrible teeth way back when, so maybe it that's why it became habit to be so overly careful with the butter on the bread?

Interesting nonetheless!

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