Butter on bread?

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A light hearted one to solve a long running silly dispute between me and DP.

I like buttered bread. So do the kids. I butter toast, toasted teacakes, use it in sandwiches etc. DH maintains that this habit is disgusting, revolting and a strange abberation. He claims that lots of people hate butter with a passion and that I am the unusual person. (I am struggling to think of a single other person who feels as strongly on this topic)

So Mumsenet. What the verdict?

I fucking hate butter and have done since childhood. Makes me actually retch sometimes. Still butter my kids sandwiches etc though and have never met anyone else who doesn't like it, so I would have to say I think I'm the weird one...

Bread products are merely a vehicle for butter!

Scrambled eggs must be cooked in butter, butter on scones with jam and cream. I put a splodge of butter under a jacket potato so the skin gets buttery as well as on top and don't forget a knob on top of chips from the chippy with salt and pepper - delish!

Oh and I do sometimes eat dry toast (very rare though) and it's dryer than a nun's snatch but needs must sometimes. Jam etc makes it less dry...

I wonder if butter haters have had a run in with gone off butter as children? I've smelled gone of butter and it's horrific, really stays in your nose too.

My son dislikes butter and used to refuse to eat it on anything. He learned to just eat what there was when he joined the military but his preference is still dry soldiers for his boiled eggs and mayonnaise based fillings such as coronation chicken rather than butte in sandwiches.

Hates butter? That’s just wrong!

My eldest scrapes the butter off when I make him sarnies.

I must admit I stopped buying crumpets when I realised that they are just vehicles for eating butter! It’s got to have enough to drip out of the bottom, yes?

I only like real, proper block butter. None of this spread nonsense.

As long as it's real butter!
Anything false, margarine etc is disgusting. It was developed when they were trying to make new plastics and isn't that far away from it!

I'll concede a spreadable butter with rapeseed oil in

Chip butties and bacon butties HAVE TO HAVE BUTTERED BREAD! It’s the law!

Is he American? I find it most disturbing when watching an American film and nobody butters their bread for sandwiches.

They literally slap the contents on the bread willy nilly. Dry much?

I am convinced that DC1 and 2 are not mine such is their aversion to butter. They have recently conceded that a thin layer of it is "ok" melted on toast. They will not have it on sandwiches or anything else.

DC3 however has more of my style of butter eating - thickly spread on everything 😊...mmmm....

Dh uses some sort of spread, says he doesn't like butter 'too rich' yet loves clotted cream ! how does that work then.

What kind of weirdo doesn’t like butter?

Salted butter on fresh bread, crumpets, toast, sandwiches, cheese, scones, malt loaf 😋

Real butter in baking none of this stoke or marg rubbish!

Has to be a block in a butter dish

My DD has never liked butter (or margarine) - I'm not sure if it's the taste or texture but she'd gag on it when she was small if someone didn't heed the 'no butter' request.

She doesn't like mayo either... thank goodness for wraps such as hoisin duck when we want to grab a sandwich out.

Someone mentioned Americans not buttering bread for sanswiches - often they use mayo instead.

Well. Last Tango in Paris would have been a very different film without butter.

My ex used to hate butter. Had everything 'dry'. I remember asking for the butter/margarine in his flat and him saying he didn't buy it. Ds isn't keen on it either, so I use minimal amounts in sandwiches or none. They do realise that most people like butter and don't think it's weird that people do.

I like butter but never eat bread. My daughter loathes butter and spreads. Yes she would have dry toast if no cheese around.

i love butter, especially thick enough to leave teethmarks in it when you bite whatever you have slathered it on

My ds2 cried once, when I bought Aldi fake lurpak as I just cba to go to tesco as well. "Please don't buy that again mummy, it's not nice" Bottom lip trembling, eyes brimming with tears. He'd have been about five, but he loved his butter

I buy Beurre D'Isigny if I go to costco and then I have to hide it so the buggers do not waste it.

They literally slap the contents on the bread willy nilly. Dry much?

Of course. We Americans use mayo or mustard or both on a sandwich, but not usually butter.

I hate proper butter, it tastes awful and overpowers other flavours. I do use sunflower spread though.

I can’t stand anything apart from butter. And it has to be salted butter. Luckily DP is the same.

I hate butter it’s disgusting. I will have a scraping of olive spread on my bread, if I’m out I’ll ask for no butter on sandwiches, toast etc. A cafe put loads of butter in scrambled eggs once I nearly threw up

My parents despise butter. It is not a taste they grew up with and is not present in their native cuisine. They find it too heavy and greasy tasing. They had a very tough time with the food at my Breton mother in law’s house.

Real butter in this house. On everything. DH has been disabused of the notion that "almost like butter" gack in a yellow tub is NOT acceptable.

I was served margarine on a baked potato a few weeks ago. When it melted, it stayed bright yellow and opaque. Like little pools of paint. I almost cried.

How the fuck do you manage a sandwich with dry bread? Don't bits fall out all over the place?

My last post was a pile of ungrammatical shite

but at least I don't chew on DRY BREAD