Wait. What? Americans don't put butter in their sandwiches?

[GoodOldEmmaNess]

How can this make sense? That's what butter is - the thing that goes in sandwiches. Can I take the blue pill and forget I ever read this?
https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/why-dont-americans-put-butter-on-their-sandwiches

Have you tasted American butter? I wouldn’t use that either. But Trader Joes stores in the USA sell lots of Irish and French butter for those that like it. And I use butter with pesto, mayo etc too.

No we don't, what are you talking about

My kids don’t like butter or mayo and the sandwiches I make them must the the driest most horrible things ever! Two slices of bread with just ham? I mean really?
Butter literally makes the sandwich. No butter and it’s just dry bread!

Olive oil and balsamic or red wine vinegar is perfect on an Italian Sub. I don't know anyone who puts mayo or mustard on an Italian.

The US excels at sandwiches, they are a full meal including vegetables. I guess it has been this way for years, in The Great Gatsby, written in the 1920s, they send out for some "celebrated sandwiches that were a complete supper in themselves". England may have invented the sandwich, but the US improved it greatly.

One thing Americans do right though is the bacon. Yuuuuuum. Sainsburys used to stock oscermeyer bacon. I was gutted when they stopped

Er I'm talking about chips AKA fries?

Most Americans would have some kind of sauce with their fries

Now with crisps, we tend to do a lot more dips in the US so more common to get basic salted crisps and eat with dips (french onion, blue cheese, sour cream and onion etc.)

We do not have salad cream in the US. I don't really understand what it is.

I hate it when supermarket sandwiches have both mayo and butter, there's just no need. They don't go together!

What is this nonsense! I love mayo and butter in a jacket potato. Absolutely lush.

There's a higher gluten content in American flour, which is generally milled from hard winter wheat and barley. This makes for easier yeast bread baking but it's harder to reproduce a nice Irish soda bread.

You can get both seeded and seedless cucumbers in supermarkets. The seedless are the familiar European cucumber and the seeded have tougher skin and seeds. They can be used for pickling.

Some brands of sliced bread are definitely sweeter than European pans.

But I'd dip up the bacon fat and have that instead of butter.

Interesting because I watch a whole load of US reactors on YouTube making out anything but cheese or ready salted flavored crips were unknow in US yet that link has BBQ, Onion, source cream and onion.

Sure no pawn cocktail or chicken/beef flavours but hardly the bland choice they were making out - though maybe it's regional.

Ah sorry. My bad. I thought cos it was related to a post about crisps, when you said chips I thought you meant crisps

Exactly, I dare anyone to go to the US and have a proper Italian sub and say American sandwiches are terrible

Thinly sliced cold cuts, a bit of (proper) cheese, lots of veg, bit of O&V
As you say, a proper meal

I absolutely love butter but don't put it in sandwich's unless it's a special treat for calorie reasons

No salad cream!!! It’s amazing stuff 😊.

Like Mayo sort of but a bit more vinegary, that sounds gross but I flipping love it 😂.

is there any food we have that you don’t you would like to try?

I would love to try a street corner hotdog stand in America, so much choice of sauces and pickles etc, here it is onions and a bit of ketchup!

Interesting I knew flour was different - I was told it was partly why US recipes don't see to translate well even when you get cups and work out what sticks of butter are.

It did take me about 3 years to get it right here in the UK : )

It's not regional. Those are all national brands, available from Maine to California.

There seems to be a lot of misinformation about food in the US.

I hate butter or any kind of spread on a sandwich and I’m British

I couldn't find bacon over there , just warmed up ham. Clearly I was in the wrong state!

Also I must apologise for slagging all US dairy . Wisconsin is an exception.

@dreamingbohemian please could you explain something to me I have irrationally wondered about?!

So here, I might say to kids or dp, freezer tea tonight, would you like fries, chips, steak cut chips, crinkle cut etc, with your tea.

But don’t Americans just call all chips fries? How do you explain to a waitress you would prefer our version of fries to big chunky chips and so on? I don’t get it

Hot dog carts are great as long as you don't think too hard about what's in those cheap hot dogs : )
What you really want is a well rated taco truck, cheap and cheerful

There's loads of British food things I'm curious about but don't actually want to try. Like.... jellied eels. What?? How???

Also I don't understand what Irn Bru is and hope to find out someday

Oh, goody. Another thinly disguised America-bashing thread. We haven't had one of them in a whole day or so.

Americans use mayo (or Miracle Whip 🤮) or mustard, or nothing (!) on sandwiches. I don't understand the obsession with moisture.

Word.

Hmm yes they would all be fries but different categories of fries I guess?

We also call them steak fries, crinkle fries, we have curly fries (those are great), shoestring (thin) fries

I think the default fries would be like the standard oven chips you get here in the UK or the really thin ones like from McDonalds