Butter on pain au chocolat?

[GeminiGuy]

Our son like his pain au chocolate with butter spread on it.

I don't see an issue with that. So, I have always allowed it. But, my wife disagrees categorically based on the premise that a sweet pastry does not need butter (she butters her croissant). She says it is a cultural difference point (she is British and I am Middle Eastern). We each think the other is unreasonable about this.

Thought we would post here for an idea what most people think.

@GeminiGuy THINk your wife really needs to watch a video of how croissants are made!!! they are literally full of butter!!!! no extra butter need on either croissants or pain au chocolat!!

One of my kids won't eat butter on sandwiches, toast, etc. The other is autistic and there are certain things he will not eat due to texture, etc. So I'm very much in the "if that's how they like it, let them have it" camp, even if for me personally it would be a no.

I wouldn't like to put butter on my chocolate croissant as I think a warm croissant with melted chocolate inside is perfect as is, but I wouldn't think anything of it if someone else wanted to add butter to theirs. Each to their own.

It's a personal choice. I eat a lot of scones, sometimes with butter and sometimes without. There are enough rules in the world without adding more!

It's unusual to put butter on a pain au chocolate - I've never seen anyone do it and I would probably discourage my children from doing it. It's not that big a deal though

Personally I do put butter on a croissant even though I know it's already been made with loads. The salty taste makes it much me delicious. My friends and family do the same (except dh who thinks it's ridiculous to add butter).

Your child is clearly finding his pain au chocolat too dry without butter, whilst it may have a piece of chocolate in it, dry unbuttered croissants can be very dry for some.

Maybe he would prefer the chocolate and hazelnut filled croissants ? as they have a creamy filling and much more of it, rather than the little lump of chocolate in a pain au chocolat.

I certainly won't butter mine - the ones I would buy are about 98% butter by weight already! - but I'm not against other people doing whatever the heck they like with theirs.

If it was my kid I'd be raising an eyebrow if butter-on-everything was an eating pattern, but as a treat no problem.

Butter on a pain au chocolat is utterly bizarre but to each their own.

Butter does not belong on a pain au chocolate, but neither does it belong on a croissant! They’re made using the same type of dough, so if she can have it, so can your son.

It depends , if it is one of the small ones you can get in individual plastic portions then butter yes as they aren’t very buttery but no one a proper bakery one

If he burns the calories, why not.

I used to looooove toast with butter AND Nutella as a kid. Only my grandma would let me do it.

I’d probably keel over if I ate it now.

I will load anything I can with butter. I looove it and it’s sooo nutritious but I guess that’s not the issue as you wouldn’t be giving him pain au chocolat if it was.

this thread has reminded me that when I went to school camp (my first experience camping) we had fried bread for breakfast (another first) and I put butter on it, it was great! but there were no grown ups to stop me!
fat is yummy unfortunately (now we live in a world where fat is so easy to come by)
a pain au chocolat has enough fat in it, I would be telling a child whose health I cared about that

Butter on butter - Yuck! You are both totally unreasonable

The heart wants what it wants 🤷‍♀️

Sorry but

So do I garlic and herb with crispy bacon on a warm croissant so delicious!!! Sometimes I put a mars bar in a croissant and heat in the microwave … yes I am a glutton 😊

Butter 'spread' like margarine? Gross

I love butter but I've never understood why some people butter croissants. Croissants are already so buttery (well, good ones are).
Same applies to pain au chocolat.

I'm quite surprised by the replies on this. How old is your child, if young then I'd be discouraging the extra butter in the hope that as they grow they prefer it without.

I m french and horrified at the thought of butter on pain au chocolat.
it s just about ok in croissant but does she knows how much butter you need to make a croissant? Sounds way to rich to add some more.
if you need to sweeten the croissant, jam is thd only acceptable sweetener.

cant imagine anything worst butter on pain au chocolat 😱

I am British and French.

Your son IBU to put butter on a pain au chocolat.

Your wife IBU to make a false distinction between a croissant and a pain au chocolat.

The reason you don't put butter on a pain au chocolat is not because it is a sweet pastry, but because it is already full of butter.

So is a croissant.

So they are both wrong.

There are lots of sweet things you would butter, Welsh cakes, iced buns, hot cross buns, what a strange rule. I personally wouldn’t butter my pain au chocolat because I like to dunk it in my coffee, but crack on

Apparently (according to my cardiologist sister) much damage (clogging) to the arteries from saturated fat happens before the age of 14. So maybe ease up on the butter? Arteriosclerosis for breakfast anyone? Just putting it out there…

Maybe the issue here is that they are eating horrible supermarket pastries rather than the real thing. Putting butter on a real croissant or pain au chocolat is an atrocity, but the kind you get in a plastic packet from Tesco which keep for three weeks are as dry as dust.