Growing up did you have bread and butter with your evening meal?

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I was pretty much always given it, either to make a chip butty or to mop up gravy. I used to enjoy it, so might just start it again, who cares about calories!

Yes, bread was always available with meals. Chip butties, nothing like it😁

The plates we had were so much smaller than we use now. My Mum always described our plates we use now as dustbin lids compared to hers😂

Yep, if it fit the meal. If it was something with gravy, the bread was always there, to mop up the gravy with.

When my dad got in from work, he always had a slice of bread and butter.

I’ll have bread and butter now if we have fish and chips. The eldest has bread with every evening meal, as he’ll make a sandwich.

Not in the south east. I always think of it as a northern tradition, but could be wrong?

I was born i the 70s and yes, bread and butter with most meals when I was growing up. Parents from very working class backgrounds if that makes a difference.

Always when we had fish and chips. And if you said you were still hungry after a meal 'have a piece of bread and butter.'

As an immigrant, I've never come across this -sounds delicious.

Scottish child of the 70s. Always had bread and butter with our meals. We also used to get sugar on bread for a snack 😋 Meals were always carb heavy as it was cheaper for working class families

I think you could be right, my husband is a Southerner and had never seen this before. No wonder he moved North.😁

Yes growing up in the 70s and 80s we did for tea. Would have something like pasta or salad. Then a slice of bread and jam then a piece of cake then fruit or yoghurt. Very carby. My mum was a child during the war and then rationing afterwards. I think she grew up with the ‘bread course’.

I’m a southerner, right down in the South West and when I was growing up, it was certainly common amongst families.

Never, south east, middle class. Went North for uni and was introduced to it by flatmates

South London here and it was a big thing in the 70s

My dad often would and I would sometimes to mop up gravy. My dad would also have fried bread with a cooked breakfast! This was Warwickshire in the 70s.

Yes we did growing up in the north west in the 1980s. It was to fill us up.

No, despite being poor to the extent that you could always tell by how much and what was on the table how far we were from payday. As a pp said, potatoes were cheaper filler. 70s and 80s.

No, unless it was soup.

We had it not only to accompany the meal, but if we didn't like the meal.
I can still hear my dad say, 'If you don't like it, eat the bread'.
None of this cooking 3 different meals 🤣

Never, I was born in Ireland in the 70s. My mother and grandmother would have fainted if they saw someone mopping up gravy with bread.

Yes. Northern/ working class/ 80’s - 90’s.

No, never. Unless it was soup. I was born mid 90s.

Yes. With our tea (evening meal) 70s and 80s East Anglia, so not Northern but working class.
Watching American TV, people there always seem to have rolls with everything, but it seems to have died out here.

Potatoes are also the UKs main dietary source of vitamin C! :)

I always see British people referring to having garlic bread with pasta on here — I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, though! Is it widespread? The idea feels really counter-intuitive to me!

Scottish, grew up in the 50s. Sometimes we had it, not always. We weren’t badly off, but sliced bread and butter (or marg) was always on the table at my auntie’s. Soft white bread and butter is a rare treat for me nowadays.

Only with fish and chips, or something like mince, to mop up the gravy. 👍. London