Important Issue: Cafes that butter your toast

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What the fuck is with cafes that butter your toast for you?!

I fucking hate it.

I always say 'no butter please' or 'butter to the side only'. Only for my toast to come, more often than not, soggy and DRIPPING in butter, to someone else's idea of an ideal butter to bread ratio.

Butter is such a personal thing. When they do it for me it just fucking ruins my toast.

Sometimes I send it back, but DH hates it when I do.

AIBU?

Yes there are bigger issues in the world but I can't do much about Putin or COL or climate change.

Hard disagree. Fed up wrestling with frozen cubes of butter while my tea and toast get cold. Keep yer teabags too. Gimme the finished article I paid for !

Disagree about the fizzy drink. It really makes no difference to the fizz level when drinking - although I don't buy 1 litre plus bottle for this reason and can always tell when a pub or restaurant is dishing drinks out from a big bottle.

But I do agree about butter and ketchup in a bap. DH's family always butter their hot dogs. I've had to be really insistent with them that I don't want butter on mine.

I agree with a pp. I hate it when I order eggs on toast and they haven't buttered the toast. How the hell are you supposed to remove the eggs without making the dish look like a car crash. I can't imagine many people would want dry toast with poached/fried eggs on top.

You’re with friends @Lwrenagain I 100% agree with you. I’m sitting on my hands now to stop me posting about the way it arrives (only one foil portion for more than one piece of toast, are you kidding me?) and what ‘butter’ is served (leave the premises immediately if Flora is produced as the ‘butter’ element).

@Wenfy

No excuse for the cutting up. But most people outside of white brits mix the sauce with the pasta as it’s more flavoursome.

What is the purpose of the word "white" here? 🤔

@Ellie56

Does she have small children

Her children are older than mine and at this point in time they were teenagers! 🙈

Great name.

I agree, but it seems to happen no matter which cafe I go to. Maybe it's too loud and they just hear 'butter' and assume I want butter?

I hate it. I like to have Vegemite on toast and IMO butter makes it taste creamy and not sharp.

This is a British forum so I won't even get started on the atrocity of someone else spreading your Vegemite for you.

Opposite. Places that serve avocado toast or poached egg in toast are the worst.
Me: Can I have butter on my toast please?
waiter: oh yes, I’ll bring some on the side.
me: no please could I have it on the toast?
waiter: looks horrified but you can put it on the toast?
Me: no thank you, I don’t want to scrape off the avocado/egg, butter the toast then put it back.
waiter: oh I’ll check with the kitchen.
(then, more often than not)
waiter: sorry we can’t do that.

Gives me the absolute rage. A fucking restaurant can’t butter toast when asked?!

Wandering from my own topic now but I HATE when you order a bottle/s of wine at a restaurant and the waiter goes around topping you up without asking.

It's so easy to lose track of how much you have drunk when you aren't choosing to have another glass yourself.

For me things like salt, butter, jam, gravy etc are very personal. One man's skimpy is another's drowning...but I get why its done at source.
However if you've requested the butter separate and they don't deliver that you're perfectly entitled to requestca replacement. Scraping butter off does not work.

Thanks that's what I think.

It's not like I'm asking them for a complicated meal to be re-cooked from scratch. I literally just want them to put a fresh piece of bread in the toaster and then bring it to me plain.

DH finds it mortifying though 🙈

YABU. I hate getting those little rock hard butter packets and trying to spread it on lukewarm toast.

Finally, some sense. This! The butter has to be creamy on top of crunchy toast, not an oil slick seeping through the bread and making it soft. Gross!

Goodness I don't think I've ever had toast that was already buttered and certainly not tea with milk in at a café. But I agree with you - I want to decide how much myself.

Not ideal but if the toast or your drink is warm, you can briefly hold the frozen foil packs of butter (assuming they’ve brought more than one, don’t get me started on that) against the cup to soften it. Or put it between two slices to warm then unwrap. Briefly though, otherwise it melts.
While we’re on toast issues: those hotel toasters where you stand and watch it go round then come out slightly warmer than it went in, or send it back through again to burn. No. Just stop. There’s all the pressure of the queue eyeing you up if you take too long, plus you have to put it on a plate, not a rack, so it’s sweaty underneath not crisp.

If you're doing lots of them, it's quicker to slap another piece of bread on top and cut. And if it's being done by machine, it's easier to get a machine to add second slice and cut than it it to get it to fold (with the possibility of disturbance to the contents).

In the "bad old days" of British Rail, my commuter train into London did absolutely beautiful (ready buttered) toast. A nice way to get ready for the day ahead.

I’d be straight round at yours too - the breakfast of champions that!

Sorry that was meant to quote @Lwrenagain

If you're doing lots of them, it's quicker to slap another piece of bread on top and cut. And if it's being done by machine, it's easier to get a machine to add second slice and cut than it it to get it to fold (with the possibility of disturbance to the contents).

And then I think it takes 2 sandwiches off the same side for a portion to shove into the triangular package not both halves of the same sandwich.
But I'm not sure something made by machine deserves to be called a 'butty'.

I feel like this about people putting milk in my tea. I can get very distressed if people impose their milk ratios on me. These days I send it back as I always specify milk on the side please.

I'm sitting in a café wanting a bacon butty. I mean, I know I eat a lot but they're not going to need a machine to keep up with my consumption. 🙄

My favourite cafe is under new ownership and they used some sort of marg on my toast instead of proper butter, on the side.

The dirty dirty bastards.

I like my toast slightly cooler so the butter sits on top I'd definitely ask for on the side