AIBU about my DP's sandwich making weirdness? This is serious shit.

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My DP made me a BLT last week. I asked for mayo, so he put mayo on one slice of bread, then butter on the other.

I didn't want butter, and thought it was weird that he considered that an integral part of sandwich making. I politely pointed this out and he said he wouldn't put butter in my sandwiches again unless I specifically requested it.

So, the other day he made me another BLT. No butter. Just mayo. All good you say? NO! Because he only put the mayo on one slice of the bread. So I had one dry slice of bread on one side of my sandwich. I went to get the mayo to add to the dry bread (because WTF?) and he now claims I am massive sandwich fascist and there's no difference between having sauce on one slice of bread rather than both.

I think he's a massive freak. Plus he always slightly toasts his bread before sandwich making. Which makes my unbuttered/unsauced slice EVEN DRIER!

Please tell me there's no one else out there this odd?

I put peanut butter in my BLT.

Yummy!!

Never buttered a sandwich. Hate the taste of the butter in that situation. Lovely in peas, jacket potato etc but on a sandwich it just tastes wrong!

If this is all you have to moan about you're very lucky!

Yes. Yes. This is all I have to worry about. Nothing else. It's only permitted to post about the most serious issue in your life at the time of posting. No frivolity or nonsense.

Butter and mayonnaise sounds divine, seriously, I'm salivating!
(i'm nil by mouth again today...)

Butter sometimes has a role in a sandwich, but it depends on the sandwich, and usually it doesn't.

Mayo or salad cream can be used in place of butter, and when that's done, it should be spread on both slices of bread. If it's a sausage or bacon sarnie, and you're the sort of weird person who likes sauce, you can spread tomato ketchup or brown sauce on the bread.

Any sort of spreading on bread should go right to the edge of the bread and be a uniformly thin layer.

Having a dry slice of bread is madness. It does not make a sandwich. It makes a slice of bread with filling on it and an empty slice of bread fallen on the floor.

My OH and I have distinct sandwich rules, result is that I make all sandwiches. I have to ask about his rules every time, because they are both weird and rigid.

No butter ever and no mayo even if sandwich falls apart
Cold beef requires thin sliced tomatoes (he mimes this with a sideways swipe)
Cold poultry requires salt and pepper with accompanying pickled red cabbage and mandatory crisps
Tuna - chopped onion or gherkins only, never cucumber
Ham - French mustard or occasionally picallili
BLT - no L or T, only cooked mushrooms but he still calls it BLT. And brown sauce.

My sandwich of choice is thickly buttered brown bread filled with cucumber previously marinated in bog standard malt vinegar and plenty of salt and pepper. I drink the marinade afterwards.

When I was a child we used to have sugar sandwiches - ugh!

Yabu, sandwiches need butter and they need it on both sides! My DP doesn't agree but he puts salad cream on mince so that says it all!

EBearhug - would you like to be in my gang? I'll make badges.

Am sure it's been said but the point of the butter is to stop the bread going soggy from the tomatoes or lettuce etc by providing a barrier between bread and wet ingredient.

So either Mayo or butter is fine - all down to your own taste buds.

I think the OP's husband is the sandwich fascist!

Yanbu.
Your husband made you a sandwich.
I'm jealous.
Mine never would.

Misguided: has he not realised that by definition BLT must have L and T? Otherwise it's a bacon sandwich, with mushrooms. I can see why you need to re-check such ridiculousness every time.

Salad cream and mince. Bleurgh. DH tells me that he used to mix salad cream into his roast dinner, gravy and all, as a kid. He has subsequently realised two things. 1. Salad cream tastes vile; and 2. Salad cream and gravy is even more vile than the stuff on its own,

Part of the no butter sandwich crowd. Butter goes on toast if no other spread, but if jam is going on - no to butter. And def no butter with peanut butter! Why two layers of spread?

YANBU LTB :)

Oooooo! I forgot to say YANBU,

YANBU, he should have known to put spread on both slices! But YABU to have mayo in sandwiches. I hate it and all supermarket sandwiches always have it. :( Its butter always for me, real stuff and not the disgusting spreads that pretend to be butter.

Love mayo with chips though...

The only sarnie without butter is a bacon sarnie, one side dipped in pan, other with brown sauce, bacon streaky bread can be white, fresh as possible or if brown must be toasted and lubricated with thinly sliced beef tomato.

Mao-setung
-fascist- mao sandwich loving person

I'll make badges.

I'm in.

Salad cream and gravy is even more vile than the stuff on its own

I quite like salad dressed in a mix of salad cream and gravy.

This post is making me want a tayto cheese and onion sandwich ( Belfast poster). this has to have butter on just bought thick white bread

I ate a "bone dry" piece of bread this morning. Nothing on it, just the slice of bread straight from the loaf and into my belly. I love it!

LTB

Dry bread?! Not on.

I quite like salad dressed in a mix of salad cream and gravy.

. Salad, salad cream and gravy? Is this some weird pregnancy craving?

Salad, salad cream and gravy? Is this some weird pregnancy craving?

Nope. I liked it as a child, and I like it now, and I've never been pregnant to date.

(I don't deny the possibility that I'm a bit weird, though!)