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!

I loved fish paste and meat paste sarnies...no butter, just paste!

Ha ha. Remember the massive tubs of marg. We had free school meals. Best part was puddings. Rarely had those at home

I think I would honestly vomit if I had to eat that. Like genuinely, no exaggeration.

This stuff cost around a £1 lasted forever.

No butter.

Not with meat paste, jam, biscoff etc. it’s just not necessary!

Ych a fi (rough translation yuk/disgusting)

I love fishy pastes

Shrimp
Salmon
Sardine
Bloater
Crab

I dont really eat bread as a rule anymore but I do miss a soft, squishy breaded crab paste sandwich, white bread of course. Butter.

Can you still get bloater paste?

Yes, loved beef paste sandwiches as a kid, always with butter, and if I asked nicely, with the crusts cut off as well. It wasn't the supermarket stuff, though - it came from the local butcher and was known in my corner of Yorkshire as "potted dog". It was definitely best not to speculate what type of meat was actually in it...

Yes to butter, I bought some chicken paste at the weekend. I’m going to it on toast with butter for my breakfast tomorrow!

That sounds like potted beef from the butcher in your beef paste sandwiches. A far different product.

Off on a tangent, turns out they dont seel bloater paste any more, probably because people are so lilly livered these days that herrings have gone out of fashion. Shame. We really have lost a lot of our food heritage and localised foods.

@soupyspoon No doubt you're right, but a previous poster mentioned potted meat and it was what sprang to mind. I don't recall eating any other type of meat or fish paste till I was a teenager and had the great privilege of making my own packed lunch. I tried Shippam's chicken paste and it was foul, no pun intended. The salmon was just about tolerable, but stank. The sardine wasn't much better, and I think I gave up at that point.

Oh god, meat pate I had forgotten about, and primula as well! It was disgusting but strangely appealing as a child. No butter with it on bread I recall.

I feel gulity that I used to let the cats lick the shittams sardine paste jar 🥲

I remember Sunday tea was a chicken or Sardine & tomato paste sandwich with marg on white sliced bread whilst watching Adrian Mole. I would squish my crisps in the sandwich too. Would usually be followed by a bowl of Angel Delight or Instant Whip.

Oh that brings back the memories, sardine or salmon was the normal one used in our house, was it shipman’s ? White bread buttered (not marg in our house heaven forbid !) then cut into triangles. Mum would pack them into a huge Tupperware box she had and into the cold box. We had one of those hard cold boxes it was huge and we would put those freezer blocks in and bottles of frozen squash. Then down to the beach for the day. Can’t beat salmon spread and sand sandwiches followed by rock cakes or possibly Parkin all washed down with orange squash out of a Tupperware beaker.

Oooo instant whip I loved that stuff, the chocolate one. Mum made that sometimes as a treat. It used to take a pint of milk unlike angel delight which was half a pint so didn’t feed so many people, there were a lot of us so when she made Angel delight it took 4 packets ! Were as whip was only two. Funny the things you remember really.

Yes! This was the way of things in our house too. White bread (ideally warburtons or milk roll) with marg and the salmon paste or sardine and tomato paste. My kids would never go near such a creation, but I was v fond of it. That and Toast Topper too. That did not require butter/marg.

My gran always bought 5 pots of sandwich paste. Along with bread, bananas, butter, ham and 2 bottles of Lucozade. That was her weekly shop!

Yes to butter! In the Netherlands they have “vegan pate” which is pretty much the same taste and consistency as meat-paste sandwiches and it’s The Best 😊

I adored a potted beef sandwich with brown sauce. Although when the vCJD scare first came along, that was the first thing I thought of...Also a big fan of cream cheese and chive flavoured Primula.

Never eat meat paste but I do like sardine and tomato paste. It has to be on toast with more butter than paste - just enough paste to give the flavour.

I had an 'interesting' discussion with a group of Americans once, we were just idly talking online about peanut butter. I said I liked a thick layer of actual dairy butter underneath the nutty stuff. The reaction I got was as horrified as if I'd said I liked a layer of fish sauce under it... 'but.....it already HAS butter, Apples! The clue's in the name, peanut BUTTER. right?'

But surely it's not strange to butter one's toast with butter-butter before the PB... or is it???

Not to me. I think butter goes under everything, including peanut butter. It's like painting. You don't need an undercoat bur you get a better result with one.

Saw a poll the other day asking whether you use butter or mayonnaise on sandwiches. The answer is both.

And the disappointment of ordering a scone and it coming with cream and jam but no butter. Such sadness.

It sounds to me as if they dont understand what peanut butter is, its just peanuts and oil, not butter.

Do they think that lemon cheese or fig cheese has cheese in it?

I remember a scolding face and shocked reaction when I was in Cornwall many years ago and I asked for butter when my cream tea arrived. Waitress (quite elderly) was horrified.