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

To be fair, those cheese counters do look a lot better than the last time I was in the US (which was before covid), but they're still not great. They look fine. And the pp is right, the UK didn't traditionally have a brilliant selection readily and cheaply available either. But I didn't always live in the UK and I'm used to a wider selection.

I only put butter on toast.
Not on any other kind of sandwich. I dont put mayo in sandwiches either, unless it is part of the filling (like a tuna mayo)

Godless heathens

I’m more disturbed by the idea of olive oil in sandwiches. I didn’t know that was a thing until this thread but it seems vile.

Never butter sandwiches, always mayo, hummus or chilli jam. Toast and crumpets though...lashings of butter!!

Do they even have real bread to start with? Everything seems wrong in USA, chocolate, butter, bread all just fake upf.
Obviously real bread needs butter if for a packed lunch, as everyone says the bread would go soggy within 15 mins without it.

I love butter and am going to have to work very hard to block out this image😖

I can only eat butter on toast, or in a bread roll from a particular shop, that is butter only. I thought I was weird but it’s nice to see on here I’m not

Well, this is not an issue with Americans because, as a general rule, we don't eat potato sandwiches.

OK wallaw, chlorinated chicken? Food standards laws? Being able to buy melatonin in the vitamin aisle? Yes USA has serious food issues.

Or bread.Their butter is shyte anyway . Ditto milk . And chocolate. Root beer is a guilty pleasure though.

How very dare you impune our cultural hertiage! To double carb is to be British. 😆

Seriously though, in France you can't get sandwich bread so eat lovely baguettes, does the USA have sandwich bread like we do? Or is it all brioche loaves?

The best bread for sandwiches is Cuban bread, which we have in abundance in my neck of the woods. It makes great toast, too.

I don't put butter in sandwiches and have never met anyone else who does the same. The fillings can easily slide out though without butter or mayonnaise to hold it in place.

I know it's not the point of the thread, but how on earth do you spread peanut butter that's been in the fridge?

I'm not American and I never put butter (or mayo, or any other spread) on sandwiches.

English Canadians do, French Canadians don't.

I'd gag without butter. It would be too dry!

They don't even butter hot dog rolls before adding the sausage and condiments, so never experience the essential melting butter.

What?!!!!! People butter their hotdogs?! Ewww

By the way, if anyone is looking for sandwich ideas, the best thing to put on cucumber sandwiches is a light layer of boursin.

Oh come on they clearly don’t do sandwiches properly, do they?

They call hamburgers sandwiches FFS

I feel like so many sandwiches would be dry without butter/margarine/ mayo/ some liquid layer

I always butter sandwiches tastes dry without.

I remember Yorkshire peach (Lisa Dollan) mentioning about not buttering. Just mayo but she said they have squeezable spread. Don't think they have decent butter accross the pond. Unless they go to a farmer's market.