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Original poster

To think butter is not a filling?

69 replies

VIX1980 · 01/04/2013 10:36

Were going on a picnic with the inlaws, mil insits on using half a tub of butter in each sandwich, i've made some without as i dont fancy dining on butter buttys,
i was given the death stare for refusing to join her in her butter gang.

I now know why dp hates the stuff with a passion! Butter is not the main thing of a sandwich i want to taste, im not wrong am i?

OP posts:
LittleBairn · 01/04/2013 11:20

[bugrin] I remember butter sandwiches (circa 1990's) courtesy of my granddad.

ALittleStranger · 01/04/2013 11:20

PuppyMonkey If it's spreadable from the fridge it's not real butter. Shock

trixymalixy · 01/04/2013 11:23

I'm a big butter fan, but only on its own on bread, hot cross buns, toast, not in sandwiches with other fillings.

Original poster
VIX1980 · 01/04/2013 11:28

its clover for what its worth, i thought that was real butter, but tub or packet its horrible!

OP posts:
HorryIsUpduffed · 01/04/2013 11:28

It is a valid filling for proper "hours in the oven" jacket potatoes.

It is a proper topping on crumpets, tea cakes, toast, hot cross buns, etc.

But for sandwiches it is simply to provide glue for dry fillings, and to prevent seepage of wet ingredients (eg cucumber or tomato) into the bread.

I think it may have been a bit PA and rude to make extra sandwiches, showing that MIL's aren't good enough, but hers would have been vile, going by your description. Did she use naice ham with all the fat left on too?

chocoflump · 01/04/2013 11:34

We went on a picnic with PIL once and she gave us butter sandwiches. Boke.

BigBoobiedBertha · 01/04/2013 11:45

No Clover isn't butter despite what the ads pretend. If it was Clover YANBU.

EostreChaoticResurrEggtion · 01/04/2013 11:53

After reading Horry's post I now have a craving for crumpets with butter and jam.

Clover isn't butter but I always thought Lurpak was [buconfused]

Anyway OP YANBU butter is not a sandwich filling.

Lockedout434 · 01/04/2013 11:53

That's wasn't butter

I like a smattering of butter - my dad made me a sandwich just after I had my dd1. 3 inches of butter with 3 inches of mustard and slices of onion with pounds of white pepper shook onto the saltiest ham.
The first ravenous bite nearly killed me.

KindleMum · 01/04/2013 12:15

My mum used to give me "sandwiches" for school made of Jacobs Cream Crackers and sliced cheese - and butter. I used to beg for them not to be buttered but she insisted. I never ate them because the butter got warm and when you bit down, little "worms" of butter came up through the holes in the cracker.

Still shudder to think of it. God, it was good when I was old enough to be allowed to make my own food.

I quite like butter really but in the right place - on baked potatoes, toast, crumpets, scones. Not slathered on sandwiches.

Lockedout434 · 01/04/2013 12:17

Oh I love little worms of butter

KindleMum · 01/04/2013 12:18

Bertha - where are you buying your sandwiches? I've obviously been to the wrong shops and need the tip-off!

missmartha · 01/04/2013 12:22

Spreadable butter is nearly all oil, so kinda buttery oil.

It's the oil that stops the butter going hard, which it will when it's cold.

FatherReboolaConundrum · 01/04/2013 12:32

Are you me, OP? No bread product is complete for DP's mum unless smothered in half a tub of margerine. The deathstare I get tells me I am an evil, snotty cow out to spoil her lunch if I don't join in (which I wouldn't anyway, but especially since I saw DP's dad scraping bits of leftover marg off the side of his plate and sticking them back in the tub). See also: 'garnishing' soup by dumping an entire pot of double cream into it.

pigletmania · 01/04/2013 12:58

Thick layer of Butter especially on both sides no no no
Thin layer of butter ok on French crusty bread yum yum yum

soontobeburns · 01/04/2013 13:10

Am I the only one who loves butter on a sandwich even with sauce?

Backs out slowly

pigletmania · 01/04/2013 13:12

No I like butter on my sandwich even if ts a tuna mayo one

EostreChaoticResurrEggtion · 01/04/2013 13:18

I've no objections to butter on a sandwich, even one with mayo, but it's supposed to moisten the bread not be a filling in its own right. Now toast and crumpets are another matter entirely [bugrin]

Panzee · 01/04/2013 13:21

I love butter on a butty. It's got to be real butter though. If it comes in a tub I don't want it. And stop calling it butter! It's spread (or filth :o)

JackieTheFart · 01/04/2013 13:28

YA Soooooooooooo U Grin

I'm in the Butter Brigade and I LOVE it! (But only proper butter, not spread. Yuck)

BreconBeBuggered · 01/04/2013 13:45

Butter has no place on any sandwich. It has to be saved for baked potatoes.

LovesBeingWokenEveryNight · 01/04/2013 13:51

I'm your dh, after growing up in my mums house I find it hard to stomach the stuff at all. Was even told Boone would eat the sarnies at dd birthday party as I wasn't putting enough on Confused

LovesBeingWokenEveryNight · 01/04/2013 13:52

P I don't have any on my sarnies

Dozer · 01/04/2013 14:00

Seems most agree yanbu apart from custard's DD!

What is wrong with spreadable "butter" though? Know isn't true true butter but you can spread it without ripping the bread and tastes pretty good, and way bettere than nasty marg and that horrible "can't believe it's not butter" shite that DH used to buy!

BigBoobiedBertha · 01/04/2013 14:19

Kindlemum - I am not 100% sure but I don't think any of the supermarkets put butter on their sarnies. I can't taste it or detect the texture. They seem to use mayo which I only just about stand as a thin butter substitute, not oozing out the side. Maybe it swamps the taste of the butter/spread. I can't check as I don't have any! Smile