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.

I would if I'm feeling rebellious against my cardiac consultant. Why not?

Personally I would find butter on a pain au chocolat de trop, I wouldn’t usually bother with any on a plain croissant either. But this is purely a matter of taste, if your DS likes, it then like you I can’t see a problem.

Your wife is certainly wrong that the British have a particular cultural norm relating to the consumption of French pastries.

People are responding about the amount of fat, but that’s not the question at issue here as your wife is buttering her croissant too.

There are very few things that aren’t improved by the addition of butter.

@Bubblesgun you say that, forgetting that you come from a nation that deems it acceptable to dip breakfast goods in coffee…so your opinion counts for nought, nought I tell you! 😆

When I was a small child, if I bumped my head, my Dad used to put some butter on it, which, apparently, would alleviate the pain.

I know that it's not the same pain as in a Pain au Chocolate, but perhaps there is some primeval relationship and that's why your son does it?

Actually, I don't think the butter on the head worked, nor did rubbing a wart with a piece of meat and burying it.

Oh my you re wrong it s deli-cious! You dont know what you re missing. you re opinion count a nought as you come from a country that beans in tins with a pink sauce that will then be spread on bread 😝🤣🤣🤣

Ew. Butter on neither. Look how much butter is in the pastry already....

Of course you need to butter a croissant, it gives a smooth surface to spread the marmite on.

If you feel the need to butter either a plain or chocolate croissant, then you’re buying the wrong croissants.

I will not rise to this provocation.

My DD15 puts butter and jam on them 🤣

This thread has resurrected the old enmity! Forget the entente cordiale. This is serious! 😉

Yes to butter 🧈 😊

Personally I wouldn’t put butter on it because for some reason it just seems wrong but if your son likes it that way then I don’t see why he shouldn’t have it that way and would let him choose.

I would find it odd to put butter into a pain au chocolat personally, but I don’t put it on croissant either, only jam. Which is the only time I like jam, incidentally.

Edit - except scones. I like jam scones but only a little bit with clotted cream. Obviously no butter there either.