Cheese and pickle sandwich

[Goodwitch9]

Please help settle a family dispute! If you are making a cheese and pickle sandwich, do you need to butter the bread first?

No.

Of course you do

Yep

Personally, I do, it's a sensory thing. Plus the cheese must be grated. Hth

although some people seem to think that things like sauce, pickle or peanut butter replace actual butter

If you're eating it immediately the butter is optional. If it's going to be eaten later then the butter is needed to stop the pickle making the bread soggy.

Yes, it stops the filling leaking through the bread.

Yes, and the pickle needs to go on top of the cheese.

100%

Yes butter is essential. Grated cheese makes the pickle/cheese combo work better also imho

Yes, the same as with crackers

On 1 piece of bread is butter, on the other pickle. Cheese in the middle.

I don't, but i'm not a butter fan.

Of course. White bread, butter, grated extra mature on one side, pickle on the other. Slap together and MUST be cut into triangles.

Bit of mustard here

Yes!

If using pickle or mayo in a sandwich i spread both sides of the bread with the relevant wet ingredient. Otherwise things fall out. But not butter. (Plain ham or cheese with real butter though is a glorious thing).

Yes I always butter a sandwich. Why would cheese & pickle be any different to a tuna mayo/ham/chicken sandwich?

Yes

See I would not butter those either. My favourite sandwich in the world is a proper Australian egg and lettuce sandwich (using shredded iceberg lettuce). No butter. Just a (substantial) smear of egg mayo on each slice then the lettuce in the middle.

I do mayo on one side and pickle on the other
Fed up of trying to spread butter!

Yes absolutely

100% yes. Pickle on both sides would be pickle overkill, and without butter one side is just dry bread with cheese on 😱

Butter always, anyone who doesn’t is a wrongun!