Mayo is one of my favorite food groups, and I’ve enjoyed ham sandwiches— just bread, ham, and mayo — since I was a kid. My first jambon beurre, though, was a revelation. The ham, the bread, and even the butter were all more flavorful than I was used to. So now I enjoy ham sandwiches both ways.

This might be awful to some, but my breakfast this morning was a croissant with smoked salmon — and mayo. Yum!

I'm French, and while I actually don't eat a lot of butter, there is nothing better tasting than *cultured* butter on fresh bread. This is what got me through the lockdown: home made fresh out of the oven sourdough with Normandie butter!

The baguette jambon beurre isn't the best known French sandwich for nothing. You get one at a boulangerie, then stroll along the banks of the Seine near Notre Dame, in late April or early May when the horse chestnuts are in bloom.

I am also not originally from US and grew up eating sandwiches with butter and topped with cheese, ham, salami …

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

Not very common in the US. Just because you did it doesn’t make it very common.

Anonymous wrote:I am from the former USSR and bread and butter sandwiches were/are a thing there, but butter doesn’t go with cold meats.
Usually it’s spam/salami/ham and bread, even adding cheese to this combo used to be adventurous, but now probably the American sandwich culture is there too.

I am also from the former USSR, and, funny enough, we've just discussed it with friends. Our conclusion was that it wasn't adventurous, but, given the circumstances, it was certainly wasteful - making a sandwich with both meat and cheese... when you could make two sandwiches and feed two people. That's why it wasn't done.

Butter was definitely on a sandwich - there was no shortage of butter when I grew up.

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

Anonymous wrote:I am from the former USSR and bread and butter sandwiches were/are a thing there, but butter doesn’t go with cold meats.
Usually it’s spam/salami/ham and bread, even adding cheese to this combo used to be adventurous, but now probably the American sandwich culture is there too.

My Russian MIL makes a sandwich with rye bread topped with butter, finely chopped raw garlic and dill. The amount of butter would comfortably keep any cardiologist in business.

I am from the former USSR and bread and butter sandwiches were/are a thing there, but butter doesn’t go with cold meats.
Usually it’s spam/salami/ham and bread, even adding cheese to this combo used to be adventurous, but now probably the American sandwich culture is there too.

It's taken out of context bc she says buttered bread is "weird", but follows it with "but it's actually really good" blah blah.
It's not like she's overly criticizing a national dish.


I don't even know why it has so much traction. People say dumb things and have opinions all the time on X.

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.

It’s great but it’s true that Americans typically use mayo. I like both, even on the same sandwich, but mayo adds a tang/acidity that butter doesn’t, which goes better with some meats IMO. I prefer mayo on a chicken or turkey sandwich while a simple ham sandwich is great with butter. I also really enjoy warm buttered toast open face with meat and cheese for breakfast but would never do that with Mayo.

K now I want a sandwich

People are posting bad takes just to get attention. It’s so annoying.

I always put butter on my sandwich, either regular or compound.

You are not alone.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/american-in-paris-says-its-weird-to-put-butter-on-a-sandwich-causing-european-uproar/3221282/

"....the influencer describes something the French do with their sandwiches that apparently Americans do not....."

I'm not French (actually Italian-born) and happen to love butter on my sandwiches - and hate mayo/mustard. Nothing better than a turkey, cheese, butter sandwich! Am I alone here?