Meat paste…did you use butter too?

[blunderdul]

I was just scrolling Facebook and saw a picture of beef paste which took me back to the shitty sandwiches my mother used to make me eat back in the late 1980s. I got to thinking, was it normal to put butter/margarine on the bread before the meat paste? I think of if I were to make a sandwich now I wouldn’t use butter as well but I definitely was told to make them that way back then. Just seeing the image earlier made me almost taste the yucky mush!

Yes to butter first. My parents used to love a potted meat sandwich!

I put margarine or butter on bread and toast under all other toppings. So that would include meat paste.

Myself and DS love beef paste - if I’m making his sandwiches for school I butter the bread first. I eat it on toast without butter though.

God, I remember them from dos in the village hall, yes butter first, utterly rancid.

My parents would never have made such a thing, thank god.

Yes to butter. My favourite filthy snack is two slices cheap soft white bread, thick layer of butter, thinnish layer of sardine and tomato paste. It's a snack now, back in the day it was called 'tea', cos we were skint 😂would have been margarine back then of course.

Yes always butter.

Definitely needs butter as well. I often eat it! Probably because I ate it growing up A LOT. M&S chicken paste is lovely!

Crab paste is gorg! No butter tho.

Toast and butter!

Margarine then salmon and shrimp.padre or sardine and tomato 🍅

Just the word paste sound so yuck

Butter?
Butter!
You was right wealthy,
We had bread and scrape - if we was lucky.
Meat paste were a luxury for Christmas - with t'sprig of 'olly in it. (If Dada could get some from Corporation Cemetery on t'way to our 'ouse from t'pit.)

Nooo I was going to say sardine paste!

It stank.

No we didn't have butter or marg first, just straight on with the offender.

The tubs of marg were massive and we'd have to take our stinky packed lunch in them when Mum had washed them out.

I love reminiscing with my brother about these things. Other kids had proper packed lunch boxes. Our crisps were just in a white packet with the flavour written on 🤣

No. Fatty/greasy enough without butter.

Yes to butter, still love a salmon paste sandwich. Sandwich Spread on the other hand is fit for the bin 🤢

I've never made a sandwich in my life that didn't use butter/margarine.

Always butter

Always butter no matter what the filling or topping and on both sides of the bread or roll/bun/stottie whatever you're having.

I make an exception for sardine paste IF I am also having cream cheese with it, lovely combination.

I even use butter underneath peanut butter.

And dont skimp on it either.

Yes to butter first

There was a paste called bloater paste as well

yes, we had cheap marge then the paste.
like a pp we were skint
We had paste sandwiches, or cheap triangle cheese.
cheap value crisps, plain bag with a stripe and the flavour written on it.

I remember going to visit my aunty in Birmingham, and there being a little pot of Corned Beef in the cupboard. We loved it.

Yep butter / marg thick beef paste with either very thin sliced onion or thin sliced pickles then grilled till hot enough to take the skin off the roof of your mouth

I just had a little silent heave at the memory of paste sandwiches. I don't know if there'd have been marge on them, probably. I'm remembering the claggy greasiness, and it getting stuck to the roof of my mouth. Ugh.

I still like a fish paste or crab paste sandwich. There's something very Miss Marple about them.

Sliced white, marg, Shiphams fish paste.

Somehow, when reminiscing about my childhood, this frequent packed lunch abomination has never resurfaced.