Solve an argument - toast with choc spread or peanut butter doesn't need butter as well...

[ilove]

Or does it?

One of us says that if you're having toast and peanut butter, or toast with Nutella, you don't put butter on as well, IE under the PB or N

The other insists that you do and it tastes wrong without it...

The one who says no butter says that with butter it is useless extra fat and calories...

No butter, but then I put jam on top of peanut butter so butter would be OTT.

Nutella by itself
Peanut butter with either banana or jam
Pate with proper butter

If the toast is warm when spread then no butter necessary for PB or chocolate spread.

...a little extra fat not necessarily a bad thing (taste-wise) though: jam, them PB, then cheese and under the grill for a couple of minutes is heaven.

I'd never have butter and Nutella but sometimes do have butter and peanut butter just because it is really nice . There's no law...

Nutella - no butter
PB - def no butter but a sliced banana on top is good.
Pate - butter - real butter, not marg.

Dashes off to make a late breakfast!

Thanks to this thread I was FORCED to have two slices of toast. I never eat toast. I never eat bread ffs :D

I had butter, peanut butter and jam.

It was fugging lovely.

HTH.

You don't need it with either, but imo both are improved with butter. I love butter!

Always butter the toast first! There is no spread that isn't improved by the addition of butter. PB on its own = dry and disgusting.

And proper salted butter please, none of this margarine nonsense.

No butter, but PB needs jam!

Yes it does

No to butter with either, it makes the toast too mushy. Jam with peanut butter? A big no.

Butter with:

• toast
• marmite
• peanut butter
• Nutella
• pate

I find peanut butter especially too drying and claggy. You can feel it sticking to your mouth and throat. Yeugh
And yet, add butter and it's great!!

Side note: I can eat breadsticks and Nutella til the cows come home, no butter in sight. Does the theoretical loss of calories from the butter mean it's actually a health food ?!

butter is utterly necessary on toast at all times. Hth.

No butter required with either.

To answer your original question, they don't need butter, but having butter as well really enhances the taste so is nice to have, rather than useless fat and calories.

To answer your follow up question When you all say butter, is that proper butter or I-can't-believe-it's-not-butter pretend stuff, there is a special place in hell for anyone who calls anything except actual real butter 'butter'.

It's not butter, it doesn't taste like butter, so don't fucking call it butter because I am sick of having to watch everyone who serves me with food like a hawk to make sure that they are using actual butter and not some shitey pretend stuff.

A recent example: I wanted tea and crumpets in the Asda cafe, which I'm sure everyone will agree, need actual real proper butter and not spread under any circumstances (I'll let off vegans and the dairy allergic obviously).

Cafe woman takes my crumpets out of the toaster and reaches for massive white tub. Excuse me, I politely interrupt - is that butter? Yes, she says. Me Is it actual butter? Cafe woman shows me the lid of catering pack of shitey vegetable margarine saying 'yes its spreading butter' to which I reply (still being polite but seething inside) I don't want that, don't you have any butter. Cafe woman says 'yes it is butter' to which I reply, I don't want that I want proper butter to which she replies 'sorry we have run out'.

I am now resisting the urge to shout, this is a fucking supermarket cafe, there is half the EU fucking buttter mountain not ten feet from where we are standing how the fuck can you not have any fucking butter but obviously I didn't because I am a nice person who knows that people who work in supermarket cafes have to follow ridiculous pointless petty rules and thinking for themselves or showing initiative even to make a customer happy is generally frowned upon. So I didn't have any crumpets and just had my tea and sat there thinking that if they hadn't already made my pot of tea, I could have gone into the supermarket and bought my own butter to take back into the cafe for my crumpets, but they would then have moaned about that too. Wouldn't happen in Waitrose .

Obviously very much a first world problem and yes I am very lucky if that's all I have to worry about

Butter on both. And with pate. Yes it's extra useless calories & fat, but it's too dry otherwise.

And I'm with you on the butter stance BarbaraOfSeville . Our work cafe has the Big Tub of pretentybutteryspreadyshite and I have now learned to ask for my sarnies to be made without butter, then pick up a couple of little actual butter pats at the till to spread myself. A bit of a faff, but tastes much better.

Oooh, no fucking no!

Anything but actual butter can fuck right off!

Yes to butter under everything.

I also love to slather a croissant in butter then add whatever topping/ filling which disgusts pretty much everyone I know

I don't like Peanut Butter (bleugh, smells of sweaty underpants) but Nutella has to have salty butter underneath - mmm, salty, nutty, chocolate goodness :)

there is a special place in hell for anyone who calls anything except actual real butter 'butter'.

This^^

Yes to butter with everything

Yes to butter with peanut butter.

No to eating Nutella at all, it's vile.

Always with butter, else the toast or bread is dry. Although I hate peanut butter.

How can it be dry. When the stuff you're putting on it is wet?