How to butter a bread roll

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My darling boyfriend kindly made me a ham bread roll after my 12.5 hour shift. He asked if I wanted butter and I said yes please. I come home to find he has buttered one side of the roll and left the other plain. He claims you make more work for yourself if you butter both sides, just double up on the one side.

He does this with a normal sandwich as well apparently. I may have to end the relationship.

Please tell me I’m not going crazy and he’s a lunatic.

YABU- only butter one side
YANBU- butter both sides

The man is obviously a complete and total Philistine.

Save yourself!
Run for the hills and don't look back!

She was not.

How is the poor filling supposed to stick without butter or mayo? How is there to be harmony within a sandwich with no unifying glue?? And why would you entertain the views of a woman from a nation where the only sandwich option is ham and (bland and sweaty) cheese???

Obviously the main filling is the main event in a sandwich, but the bit part players have a role too. Like housemaids in Downton. Or similar.

I've never heard anything so terrible! Monster. Akin to American sammich making.

Butter both sides with cruelty free "butter"
( yes it's a thing )
Add torture / murder free vegan " ham " ( also a thing )
Job done 👌

He's a wrong un!!

Only a vegan would reply to a thread asking how to butter a roll giving a lecture on how we should all be holier than thou, self sacrificing vegans instead of people with our own minds, views & opinions

I'm sure there are vegan boards somewhere or you could start a separate post on how to 'turn' us heathens

Both sides of any sandwich/roll/baguette should always be buttered, unless:

• Filling is a wet filling (tuna/egg mayo, cream cheese, hummus etc.)
• Using a sauce - in which case it can be one side sauce one side butter or both sides sauce, eater’s preference. No piece of bread should have both sauce and butter on, as it will clag.

<gavel>

I have never buttered both sides in a sandwich. Never heard of anyone who does.
It goes like this:
Bottom slice butter
Ham/cheese/insert any other filling
Wet on top eg tomato or cucumber
Top unbuttered slice

Oh and Pret A Manger literally sell their ham roll as a ‘jambon buerre’ - the butter is literally in the name of the sandwich. I don’t always see eye to eye with Pret but we can all agree that the French know how to make a good ham roll. So OP’s partner is definitely BU.

Obviously the top half needs to be buttered as it is contact with the salad items and butter is required to prevent soggy bread.

My ds takes it one step further and doesn't butter either side and just has sliced cheese in the middle 😂

My husband does this, or none at all. Luckily he is fantastic in bed.

He claims you make more work for yourself if you butter both sides, just double up on the one side.

That's next level laziness.

Butter on one side and mustard on the other side. You get the moisture and flavour of both.

I only butter the bottom piece of bread or bottom of the roll. I thought that was normal but it's clearly not!

I bet he doesn't even cut the crusts off.

This sounds like the tip of the iceberg! ⛳

LTB. One dry piece of bread flapping about? No thanks.

I once worked for an American (I think that's relevant) who got very grumpy when I made them a peanut butter sandwich with butter. They said peanut butter was like ham- you don't put butter in the sandwich.

WTAF?

Many years later I still think they're wrong.

A) yes
B) yes
C) yes

I like butter in my sandwiches and/or rolls. It would never occur to me to not butter both sides. That's just doing half a job.

All these people who say oh I butter both sides if it's this type of sandwich/roll/filling but not this type of....why though? Is it just laziness?

STBEH did this ...

I grew up this way but never butter as that is too fattening and so unhealthy (according to everyone in the 80's/90's here (Australia) so we used no fat margarine and spread very thinly) when I met my DP he was like what on earth is this my whole inlaws spread both sides that was totally new to me I didn't understand it at all.
When I first tasted butter, it was like a thing I've missed all my life so delicious.
These days if I think of it I'll spread either butter or margarine on both sides or sometimes we just use cheese (as if we use cheese definitely no butter as to me that makes no sense at all we don't use Mayo either but we don't like Mayo my partner is allergic to it and I'm not a fan of the taste.
It's so different everywhere I still shocked sometimes over something so little but trivial.

It's just how I was taught growing up, same for DH. You butter the bottom of a roll then add fillings. Nobody ever buttered the top. Can't really explain it beyond that! Other than, as I said, there's often sauce on top of whatever is on a roll.

I've never considered not buttering both slices of a sandwich though - again, everyone in both families always buttered both slices too, so it's never been in question! But it's less likely to have a sauce. E.g. a cheese sandwich would be a bit strange without butter on one side, but a bacon roll with brown sauce on top isn't as big a deal.

My mother always did that. Sandwich fell apart.
He needs training 😂😂😂

He's telling you who he is OP. Loud and clear.