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?

Brown and sliced.

The only time I eat white is for fish fingers and mayo sandwiches.

Absolutely!

If calories were not a consideration for me I would use butter. I don't use butter.

God almighty, of course!

Yes. And it tastes better if the cheese is grated rather than sliced.

Sometimes if I'm low-carbing I cut out the "middleman" and just have a small bowl with shredded cheese mixed with chopped pickle. No bread.

When no one is looking!

Yes

Yes, and must be grated cheese.

I normally have wholemeal bread but for a cheese and pickle sandwich I like white

Butter on every sandwich barring peanut butter sandwiches!!

I can personally do without butter if there is something (pickle, coleslaw, salad cream) but I'd use butter if making for other people.

Only if toasted and then it's on the outside of white bread with grated strong cheddar.
Not really a fans of cold cheese sandwiches but if I had to it would be granary, no butter, coarsely grated mature cheddar (but not too much), generous on the pickle.

Absolutely not. Never butter in a cheese sandwich (only time it's excusable is in a ham cheese and pickle sandwich and then only on the bit of bread touching the ham)

Absolutely

White, sliced or grated cheese, both acceptable 😀

No butter here. Horrible stuff. There are ways around the soggy bread issue. You can double cheese it- pickle in between two layers of cheese. There’s also the option of lettuce above the pickle. You just need to think outside the roll box.

Yes!

I don't like soggy bread. The butter is there as a buffer to stop the pickle (or anything else such as sliced tomato) making the bread soggy.

Butter definitely.
Cheese sliced with one of those things with a slit in that you drag across the block. Grated is good for taste but so annoying when bits fall out. Sliced can go right up to the very edges.
I was going to say white bread, but a PP raised the idea of granary ...