To not butter both sides of a sandwich?

[RoaryLion1]

Please help settle a (light-hearted) dispute between me and DH.

Buttering sandwiches for child’s birthday party (with spread, not actual butter, before anyone worries about kids arteries). I butter one slice of bread only and leave a little gap between buttered area and edge of slice, so spread doesn’t ooze out over the edge. DH butters both slices of bread AND spreads butter right to the edges of the slice. DH says my sandwiches are too dry, I say his are clarted in spread and too greasy.

Obviously how much butter you apply is down to personal preference - but DH maintains that I am in the minority and most people butter both slices and butter right to the edge.

YABU - DH is right, only buttering a single side of the sandwich is wrong
YANBU - one side of butter is sufficient

Depends on mood.
Always real butter.

If I can’t get real butter, I would rather have the bread dry.

This is crazy. @RoaryLion1 i have only ever buttered one side and thought that was just how it was done!

I butter both sides but sparingly. I have never understood the appeal of ‘lashings of butter’. Even when reading Enid Blyton’s books as a child, I was bemused at all the butter.

Even my crumpets look under-buttered by English standards.

My parents only ever buttered one slice. I do both, and to the edge.

Same (fab username!) unless there’s going to be sauce on the top of the filling cheese, salad, mayo on underside of upper slice, in which case butter/spread would be overkill.

Both sides, though if it’s for a kids birthday party it doesn’t matter as they won’t get eaten (at least not by the children) anyway.

This is one of the most appalling things I've ever read on here.

Yabvvvvvvu

😂😂

Only butter on one side for me and depending what im having sometimes none at all.

YABU for using whatever this 'spread' is instead of butter - wtf are you thinking? Eeeeew and it's both sides obvs 🙂

lol I have always only done one side this is the first I have heard that people do both

We butter or spread both sides, the only time i don't is if I have tuna, cheese and mayo mixed together. Weird to just do one side.

All the snobbery about spreads (including putting the word in quotes as if it’s some unheard-of concept) is really unpleasant and quite telling. There was nothing to suggest the OP was talking about margarine; many brands now make a spreadable butter, which is majority butter with a small amount of seed oil so it can be spread from the fridge. This is not a UPF, and definitely isn’t a plastic

I butter both sides, OP, but when making sandwiches for my own kids I definitely tend to skimp on it, as they have been known to refuse to eat a sandwich that they deem to be over-buttered.

I am with you on this. I would rarely have butter but use mayo/ pickle etc instead and only on one slice. I hate biting into a sandwich where I can see butter around the edge.

Also Scottish, and definitely butter both pieces of bread - I’ve never come across anyone who didn’t,

The only time I wouldn’t is if I’m using mayo.

I'm more upset at the thought of not buttering right to the edges. That's just pointless.

Urgh first off use butter not some artificial spread, second off, of course you should butter both sides. Your sandwiches sound disgusting.

I’m Scottish, I don’t know anyone who butters one side unless they are skint,

Maybe a Scottish thing? My Scottish mil didn't know anybody used butter and mayonnaise on the same sandwich.

If your spread squeezes out you are speading it very thick.
Either lightly butter both slices crust to crust or cut the crust off.

I never ever butter a sandwich! Absolutely hate it when I have to deconstruct a cafe one that comes with 1cm thick knobs of butter 🤢. And when I have toast I use margarine (which no longer have hydrogenated fats!!!) which i hate but are much lower in saturated fats and I have high cholesterol.

Really funny the indignation of using a UPF product when talking about what I can only picture as sliced bread!

Butter is fucking rank and should get in the bin

I butter only 1 side but go right to the edges. If I am having mayo/salad cream then I don’t use butter at all.
My ds hates butter so will just eat a dry ham or cheese sandwich 😱 My other dc are like your dh and spread both sides and will have butter even if having ketchup or mayo

Definitely butter both pieces of bread and spread the butter to the edges.

Butter is way healthier than most spreads. They’re upf and full of seed oils.

Both sides always and to the edge.

I misread your post as DH buttering both sides of each slice, which sounded very messy.

It is how it's done, there's a lack of reading comprehension going on here, no ones buttering both sides unless, I assume, they are making a toasted sandwich in something like a George Foreman but let's not go there as no doubt the oh so virtuous food snobs will have something else to be superior about 😁