Toast with butter AND honey?! Ew.

[Mangomumma]

Ongoing (lighthearted) argument with DH - he has butter (margarine) and honey on his toast. I think this is weird! Tbh I'm not bothered about butter/spread & can happily not have it on toast / sandwiches. Obviously I'll have it on toast if it's plain but he has butter with everything! Toast with honey, marmite etc has to have butter too. Sandwiches have to have butter regardless of filling. I would never dream of putting it with philly cheese! Am I they only one who thinks butter shouldn't automatically go on toast / sandwiches?!

The only thing better than butter and honey on toast is olive oil and honey on toast with a tiny sprinkling of salt.

MARGARINE.

Butter is an essential part of honey on toast.

I'm hoicking my judgy bosom at you.

Margarine is Satan's own food. Honey and butter together is divine. The only toast topping I have without butter is peanut butter.

Bread or toast should always have butter on it. The only exceptions are where you're having a topping which contains a high amount of fat, for example, cheese (melted), peanut butter, etc. Because these stick to the toast /bread & make it delicious in the same way as the butter does.

Sadly, I can't have butter any more. Dairy intolerant. I have to make do with dairy free spread.

All you people eschewing butter...

YABU. I can't think of any spread that butter shouldn't go under tbh. I'd rather have nothing at all than margarine though (ugh), including no toast.

YABU

@Mangomumma

Seems I'm in the minority!

When I say margarine, it's the olive oil type spread stuff. A hot piece of toast with plenty of real melty butter is delicious! But otherwise I don't really eat it. I may have to try it with honey now so many people have said how good it is...

So, margarine with the cheapest, nastiest olive oil they could get, then.

Vegetable Oils in varying proportions (42%) (Rapeseed, Palm, Sunflower), Water, Olive Oil (17%), Salt (1.1%), Buttermilk (Milk), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Acid (Citric Acid), Natural Flavouring, Vitamins A and D, Colour (Carotenes)

As compared to

Butter, Salt.

Might as well have Water, Thickeners (Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Xanthan Gum), Salt, Acid (Lactic Acid), Sweetener (Sucralose), Colour (Curcumin Extract, Caramel E150d), Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate), Flavouring

instead of the stuff that 50,000 bees have worked their stripey arses off to produce if you're going to eat that crap.

(Mind you, I feel the same way about a slice of Wheat Flour (with Calcium, Iron, Niacin (B3) and Thiamin (B1)), Water, Yeast, Salt, Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed, Sustainable Palm), Soya Flour, Vinegar, Emulsifier: E472e, Preservative: Calcium Propionate, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) compared to

Flour
Water
Yeast
Salt )

I don't get the butter love. You've either got unsalted, which tastes basically like fat, and salted, which tastes like salt.

Give me Clover any day.

Apparently our bodies find something that is half fat, half sugar particularly desirable. Which is why butter and honey is quite so delicious...

Fourplasticrings, have you tried slightly salted? Mmmm

I'm someone who normally just has toast with butter on it, or just toast and marmalade.
If I am having honey, it does taste better if the toast is already buttered because the honey and butter sort of blend into each other.
I've just eaten lunch and wish I had room for toast.

Agree with the pp MitziK about butter vs spread.

My grandmother would say, you know what's in butter, just eat less of it.

Margarine has no business being on anything. This is a hill I am prepared to die on.

I've just gone gluten free for health reasons and this thread is making me miss proper bread!

Butter and honey on toast food of the gods! ( diabetes in the post, mind)
Marge and honey on toast - an abomination. LTB!

The “standard” way would be to have butter (not marg) plus honey. My Ds would disagree and have just honey but that’s unusual imo.

I wouldn’t have either as I don’t like honey or anything sweet on bread / toast.

But generally speaking most things on toast require butter.

Butter on everything but not bacon or sausage sandwiches which is what my DH has. I've never quite understood the need for it as it's already greasy.

Butter / spread / margarine / olive oil stuff - I don't like any of it! I'd rather just have stuff straight on toast / bread. I just don't see why DH insists on putting them on absolutely everything. Some things I can understand, but others are just odd!

Butter is key. The debate I have with my DH is whether butter and honey on toast requires salted or unsalted butter. I think it's salted butter. He thinks salted butter with sweet honey is an abomination.

Butter and honey on toast is yummy!

Proper butter not that marg shite goes amazing with almost everything

Exceptions are nutella and peanut butter. I also try not to have it with pate cos of the calories but still tastes amazing

I'd rather just have stuff straight on toast / bread
My mouth has just gone dry at the thought of toast or bread without the necessary butter/marge lubricant!
I don't have the requirement for actual butter though. Most spreads are fine and I tend to call them all butter which must horrify the butter purists.

And don't forget the vit D.

I'm in the butter and honey camp btw

Oooft. Toast with melted, salty butter and honey is incredible. I'm definitely having that for my dinner now

We're all agreed that margarine is unreasonable. Grim!