Butter on bread

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Please help me decide who is BU here. When you make a sandwich, do you butter both sides of the bread, or just one side?? Me and DH have differing opinions....

So what do Americans use butter for? You have some huge tubs of the stuff over there. And how do you eat soft boiled eggs? Do you just hold it?

Question for the Brits, do you feel your Subway sandwich is missing something without butter?

Americans use butter on toast, for baking, on potatoes, etc. You know, like, normal people.

You jam & butterers, do you also put butter with nutella, marmalade or peanut butter too?

I don’t eat peanut butter but no I wouldn’t. I do put jam and butter. Never with Nutella but my disgusting partner does. He even done it for our elder child and when I said no she doesn’t eat it like that she piped up saying she wants butter. Both of them are gross.

Vagndidit Fuck, the subway point is a good one. However, I don’t put any condiments in sandwiches except at subway so I guess that makes a difference.

Also, I just asked about usage of butter because they’d ell such huge tubs over there and couldn’t work out how it was used, our small tubs at a time go quickly on sandwiches and potatoes etc.

Egg cups aren't popular because very few Americans I know even eat soft boiled eggs. It's considered a granny food, like liver and onions :) We prefer hard boiled, or scrambled!

My mother used shot glasses for egg cups.

Subway is the work of the devil and I would rather eat my own poo.

Vagndidit Oh wow, thats interesting to know. I don’t eat them myself and much prefer scrambled or fried.

UrsulaPandress Why?

Also, this has made me wonder. Why is American butter cream white??

The smell makes me heave.

Isn't American buttercream made with Trex instead of proper butter? I use Trex for buttercream sometimes.

On sandwiches I butter both piece of bread. Thickly. I like a bit of bread with my butter

The last time I was in England I looked for a lb of butter in the supermarket - I could only find half lbs. we go through at least two lbs of butter a week. I think I have three lbs in the fridge at the moment.....

The British habit of adding butter to every sandwich is disgusting.

Butter with savoury toast yes.

Butter with jam or Nutella or marmalade. Hell no.

In a sandwich I’ll usually butter one slice of bread and then mayo/mustard on the other depending on what the filling is.

A chip Butty both slices get buttered.

No to butter in a hotdog, burger, sausage or bacon bap/sandwich.

I don't butter the bread at all for a sandwich of any kind. I do use all manner of different mustards and very occasionally a smidge of mayo. I do absolutely love butter though and eat indiscriminate amounts of it on toast, plain bread, rolls etc.

I've never eaten a soft-boiled egg nor seen someone eat one, and I've never seen an egg cup.

You've guessed it. I'm American. As far as why we don't butter the bread for our sandwiches, I don't think there's a good reason why not. We just don't. I haven't experienced a lot of soggy sandwiches, either.

Oh come on

One slice buttered one plain

But tastes way better with dry cold toast

Both sides, I’ve no time for a dry sandwich

Buttercream I make at home with real butter is not white, it's a creamy color. Buttercream from a supermarket is white because it's made with vegetable shortening instead of butter, and it's disgusting.

So what do Americans use butter for? You have some huge tubs of the stuff over there. And how do you eat soft boiled eggs? Do you just hold it?

We use butter on toast, in baking, and in buttercream icing, among other things. But not on sandwiches.

Generalization alert here: most Americans don't eat soft boiled eggs. If we have boiled eggs, they are usually hard boiled and often chopped up in salads. If we want an egg with a runny yolk, it is most likely to be fried sunny side up or over-easy or possibly poached.

Buttercream I make at home with real butter is not white, it's a creamy color.

Same for me.

Some people put butter and Philadelphia

Some people put butter and Philadelphia 

I grew up during butter rationing so I always use butter; no marge or 'spreads'. I don't care what Americans do.

Both sides. Its just half a job done else.