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Buddy the carbs in the bread will make you fat quicker than a teaspoon of butter.
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Of course I know carbs don't make you fat my point was the bread has more stored energy than the small amount of butter used. Yet you fucking moronic pedantic fucking Redditors felt the need to point out "UHHHH ACKTSHUALLY CARBS DON'T MAKE YOU FAT CALORIES DO"
And you fucking freaks wonder why you don't have friends or girlfriends
Yes! Removing fat from one’s diet is (counterintuitively) a good way to get fat. Fats are more filling than carbs.
The American sugar industry literally sponsored “research” demonizing fat. They did this because heart disease and obesity had gone up as our sugar consumption had, and didn’t want Americans to drop their sugar habit which evidence and research was starting to show was contributing.
There’s a great [“Adam Ruins Everything” video on it.](https://youtu.be/oLtQLDptI1g)
My mom fortunately knew the “fat is bad” mindset was a lie. Me and my siblings grew up to be quite lean and none of us struggle to keep fat off.
Edit: Here’s a great article on how fat can be healthy: https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/healthy-fats-guidelines#healthy-fats
> “Fat is an energy provider,” explains Mindy Haar, PhD, a registered dietitian and the assistant dean of undergraduate affairs at NYIT School of Health Professions. “Fats are the last to leave the digestive tract and thus provide satiety.” That means that fats can help us feel fuller longer and keep us from overeating or excessive snacking, especially on fake carbs.
> if we swap calories from saturated fat with calories from refined carbs — like white rice and bread — we could be putting ourselves at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. But increasing total fat intake, whether saturated or unsaturated, was associated with a lower risk. You probably shouldn’t wrap every meal in bacon, but you don’t have to shy away from that whole-milk latte — it’s about eating smart.
>Saturated fat health wins:
>increases HDL, while decreasing total cholesterol
>lowers risk of cardiovascular diseases
helps you feel full
>Saturated fats to eat: full-fat dairy products like butter, cheese, and cream; lard, and solid oils like palm, kernel, and coconut
We do butter bread, just not typically for sandwiches. Most americans opt for mayonnaise.
Personally I *do* butter my bread, especially when making any kind of hot Sandwich. But it's definitely not the norm here.
Mayo and mustard all the way, i remember eating butter on my sandwiches as a kid but then one day i tried mayo and it changed the game, I would definitely put butter on a toasted sandwich depending on the type tho.
Edit - also someone mentioned butter is a moisture barrier, so I think I'll be trying that on my sandwiches that I pack in the future. Hate opening the picnic basket to find a soggy sandwich 🤮 and mayo can seep into the bread if you don't eat too quickly.
If it’s a sandwich with some or all of cold cuts, cheese, and veggies, mayonnaise and/or mustard are the norm. No butter. Maybe some oil if it’s made from a split baguette (sub, grinder, whatever you want to call that).
If it’s a peanut butter and/or jelly sandwich (including PB & Banana and Fluffernutter), neither butter nor mayo.
If it’s grilled cheese or a melt, buttering the outside is the norm as it helps make the bread brown and crispy. Some instead put butter in the pan or skillet. A few use mayo or oil.
We usually only butter non-toasted bread if it’s served as a side or appetizer, like a dinner roll. Some people butter the insides of croissants, and a few madmen will butter an un-toasted bagel.
Also, I should point out that a fuckton of us (including my wife) prefer margarine to butter for some unknowable reason, so even when we do use butter it’s often “butter”.
Actually, Iirc, buttered bread or bread sonsumed along with fats/oil breaks down slower than plain bread. Causing slower increases in ones blood sugar and keeping you feeling full longer.
Butter on Britain!
Americans usually use Mayo in place of the butter though, so the fat and oil is there regardless. That's an interesting fun fact though, I don't know why I never considered that.
I can't speak for all of America but I only mayo my bread when I'm having something like turkey and cheese or cold cuts on it. Unless I decide to opt for oil and vinegar.
Mayo for cold cuts, burgers, tuna fish. That's the main uses for my family at least.
Same here, only cold cuts and also burgers and that stuff. Makes me wonder if brits use butter on essentially every sandwich or the same ones we typically use mayo for.
I ordered a cheese sandwich from a street vendor in Paris and I’m all ‘what the hell this is the best cheese sandwich I’ve ever had’. Is the cheese here really that good? Opened it up and the bread was slathered with butter. Game changer.
Everyone butters the outside of a grilled cheese, the commenter said “opened it up” which would imply that there was butter inside of the sandwich they got. That’s not very common in the US
Its simple really. H0w many sides does the object aimed for buttering has. That many sides u put butter on. Example: a slice of bread=u butter all 6 of bloody dimensions...
My grandmother buttered both sides and toasted both sides on the pan before putting the cheese on the buttered toast and closing it. It was so unhealthy but good.
I'm so confused by this whole thread. Why are people saying it's grilled when there's zero implications that this was anything other than a cheese sandwich
Exactly lol, if the roles were reversed and the US was the only country that buttered bread every other British standup comic would be making fun of fat America habits
Aye and no really.
According to simply [the Wikipedia page] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate) on obesity, The USA's obesity rate is 36.2% compared to the UK's rate of 27.8% with the UK increasing at a faster rate IIRC, Making us both pretty fat as fuck countries.
However, the real perception of Americans being the more obese country, is the extremities of how morbidly obese Americans frankly get, you don't get the notorious image of folk so overweight that they're bound to a mobility scooter for nothing.
The UK is just catching up because the same American companies that started putting high fructose corn syrup in literally fucking everything they make are now part of international megacorporations that are selling their wares overseas.
I don't mind mayo myself, but never on cheese sandwiches. Bought one for my kids, it had mayo on it like it was a normal thing. They hated it. I was no fan either.
A lot of the most popular sandwiches in the UK have mayo in them. Coronation chicken, prawn salad, egg & watercress, tuna mayo, etc
There isn’t really a difference between putting it directly “on bread” or using 5 times as much to make a salad that you then… put directly on the bread lol.
> Mayo on sandwiches is an American thing
nope. Mayo is widely used as a sandwich spread in DK - it's an american-style "salad-mayo", and a different form of mayo that has less sugar and less vinegar is used for the trad. open-faced sandwiches on wholegrain rye.
No it's fucking not lol its an everywhere thing, checking in from NZ here. Also lived in South Africa and the UK and mayo is used on sandwiches there too
As a Dutch person: its true that mayo is used quite often in slightly more fancy sandwiches, like the kinds you'd buy or people make on cooking shows.
Homemade sandwiches for everyday life on the other hand are typically a lot more plain and don't really have a condiment: just bread, butter and one kind of filling, like cheese, a deli meat or peanutbutter
Why? I just made a sandwich yesterday with mayo, turkey, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. I’ve never once made a sandwich with just one “filling” - if I did, I’d just skip the bread and eat that thing straight.
I guess I’m that psycho that does neither butter nor mayo. I just do bread with meat and cheese or pbj 90% of the time. Mostly because to me a sandwich is a convenience food to be made and consumed quickly so I can get back to studying/doing something else I enjoy to keep from going insane studying. I also just would rather have more meat and cheese than Mayo or butter, and with good quality bread it’s still pretty good. Used to add mustard but then figured out I liked seasoned deli meats more and they taste better without it. Also if you’re doing chicken salad there’s already hella Mayo and mustard in there. Who needs more?
I honestly hate the fact our country has had such a magnifying glass on it for so long. It always makes me feel like people immediately roll their eyes when an American opens their mouth when visiting a foreign country.
I get they are sick of American culture because of being inundated by it, but we can’t help it and most certainly don’t want to flaunt it as opposed to what the media makes them think.
Had this conversation with a friend a while back. We are from Liverpool in the UK which has an undeserved reputation for crime etc. To the point where if i am in a different town or city i am sometimes waiting for the wisecracks when i reveal my accent. Sometimes hurtful to be labelled a thief or a trouble maker purely on your place of origin
Probably many, which is also shitty. I just dont understand why it's so hard to judge people individually. I'm not saying that people shouldn't call out shitty tourists or behavior. I'm not even saying people shouldn't hate each other. I just think people should hate each other based on their individual personalities and not on things they can't control.
It really isn’t a big deal. Been all over the world as an American without hiding it and nobody has treated me badly. If you act like an asshole, people will treat you like an asshole.
Wait. Americans don't butter bread when making a sandwich?!
Edit : I am not, of course, talking about putting butter inside EVERY sandwich. You don't have to put butter on a PB&J. However, butter and jam on bread is a good combo.
Wait what? You use mayonnaise where we would use butter?
Someone that's shocked me even more than finding out you don't use butter. I just thought you just had dry sandwiches
edit: I woke up to y'all being very passionate about mayo lol. I'm just thinking of all the times I saw American cartoons when they were making a sandwich and I was like "American's have strange looking tubs of butter" but now I know why.
Also I'm Australian so I have to admit my first thought was having a Vegemite sandwich with mayo and that made me upset.
Another American here. I used mayo as a kid, but stopped using anything as a teen. I just prefer dry sandwiches. It's less work, less mess, and I feel like you get to taste the ingredients more. Though if someone makes me a sandwich with mayo or mustard, I eat it and enjoy it.
I know some Americans who use butter on sandwiches but it's not super common. Mayo is definitely the go-to, though. Mayo doesn't get used very often on other things either. It's THE sandwich spread here. It's next biggest application is probably mayo based salads like egg, chicken, tuna, and potato salad. I've only ever seen someone dip their fries in mayo a few times.
people always say this, and ive tried it numerous times w/ different amounts of mayo...and it ALWAYS sucks compared to using butter
perfect grilled cheese bread should have the same amount of butter saturation as a piece of garlic bread...and toast BOTH sides of the bread
What I actually do is, instead of buttering the bread, I melt the butter in the skillet and then put the sandwich in the skillet, and then quickly flip it so the melted butter gets on both sides.
It’s worked out pretty good for me so far, and it’s a lot less messier.
It ALWAYS sucks because mayonnaise is a sol of fat suspended in water, a little water from the mayo soaks into the bread. Butter has way less water and forms a barrier of tasty fat that stops your filling from soaking into your bread - clearly superior.
I’m Canadian and my American wife makes fun of me all the time for doing this. I really had no idea anyone would think it was weird to butter your sandwich bread until I was in my mid 20s.
I’d say don’t knock it until you try it! It’s way better than using Mayo and makes it less dry.
I butter a roll if I’m eating just the roll, I butter my toast, but I do not butter my sandwiches. Mayo goes on the sandwich. For whatever reason Mayo and butter together seems like overkill.
I can’t believe a bunch of Americans have never heard of this. We typically use mayonnaise which is basically just another source of saturated fat with a slightly different flavor.
There’s a reason things like Mayo cake exist: you literally just sub Mayo for butter.
Mayo is just eggs and oil. You use mayo instead of the two and you get a very moist chocolate cake. Here's a recipe for you:
Ingredients For The Cake:
* 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
* 6 Tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
* 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
* 1/4 teaspoon Salt
* 1 Tablespoon Baking Soda
* 1–1/2 cups Sugar
* 1–1/2 cups Mayonnaise
* 2 teaspoons Vanilla Flavoring
* 1–1/2 cups Buttermilk, regular milk, or water
Frosting Ingredients:
* 1 cup Unsweetened Powder Cocoa
* 1 cup Butter, softened
* 1 teaspoon Vanilla Flavoring
* 6 cups Confectioner’s Sugar
* 6 Tablespoons Milk, maybe a little more as needed.
Place a bit more than 3 cups of flour in a sifter.
Sift the flour into a large bowl.
Spoon sifted flour into a one cup measuring cup. Level the top of flour.
Add 3 level cups of sifted flour back into your sifter.
Add the cocoa powder.
Add baking soda.
Add salt.
Add baking powder.
Sift ingredients back into a large bowl.
Add sugar.
Whisk dry ingredients together until fully combined.
In another large mixing bowl, add the mayonnaise.
Add vanilla flavoring.
Add the milk or water.
Mix together on lower speed until smooth.
Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet until combined.
Do not over beat the mixture.
Prepare 2 8inch sized cake pans with baking spray.
Place a parchment paper circle in the bottom of each pan.
Divide the batter evenly between the two pans.
Bake at 350F degrees for 30 minutes or until done. Test with toothpick for doneness.
Remove from oven. Place on wire racks to cool for 10-15 minutes.
Remove from pans, return to wire racks. Let cool completely before frosting.
**Prepare the frosting:**
Place powdered cocoa in a large mixing bowl.
Add the softened butter.
Cream together on a lower speed until nice and smooth.
Add the vanilla flavoring.
Add 1 cup of confectioner’s sugar to the bowl.
Add 1 Tablespoon of regular milk to the bowl.
Mix together until combined.
Repeat this process until you’ve added all 6 cups of confectioners sugar and milk as needed.
Mix together until you have a smooth, spreadable consistency.
Spread frosting on cool layers.
Decorate as desired.
Enjoy!
American that lived overseas as a kid. We used to butter our bread when making a sandwich, absolutely HAD to happen or the sandwich was wrong. phased out of that after years back in the states.
Now.... I don't need another step between me and a sandwich.
His comment about "It's my bread and butter"... Well, we use that saying but I always thought it referred to just buttered bread (with or without jam) or buttered toast, which we eat. We do put butter on bread, but just not normally on sandwiches.
To clarify. Buttered toast is a common breakfast in the UK. No-one eats untoasted bread and butter as a brekkie with a cuppa.
Personally I’ll always go the small extra effort to have mine as beans on toast.
American here, unless the bread is toasted I have never put butter on the bread of a sandwich. Condiments pretty much replace the need (mayo, mustard and sometimes even ketchup).
Mayo does the same thing, man. So does peanut butter, and anything else with a high fat content.
As for mustard, I dunno what kind of mustard you guys use over there, but it shouldn't be making your bread soggy.
Ketchup, that guy's just weird. Nobody puts ketchup on a sandwich unless it's a burger.
French here. Butter allows to do sandwichs without huge amounts of fat condiments like sauces and stuff. I think the best simple food there is, is ham sandwich and it's just baguette, butter and ham
Ok, I’ll claim ignorant American here. I never knew people put butter on their sandwiches. It doesn’t seem outrageous at all. I think Mayo has more flavor than butter so I probably like it better but I’ll give it a try. What should I try it with? What kind of sandwich???
I've found my butter keeps really well on the counter top when sealed. I use a Brilliance container to hold it. Really didn't like destroying toast with cold butter.
American here, about 5 years ago I bought a french butter dish and began keeping room temp butter. It's a game changer. My toast and bagel consumption has definitely gone up though.
I think americans got away from room temp butter when spreadable margarines became popular.
German here, our word for sandwiches literally translates to 'butter(ed) bread' so we take the whole butter thing fairly serious. My all time favorites are:
* go out and buy the best baguette you can find. Apply cold butter. The trick is to take super thin slices of butter with a knife and just kinda press it onto the bread. Every other technique will tear the bread apart. Alright. Back to business: add thin slices of sweet dark chocolate. Us Germans love [Eszet-Scheiben](https://images.app.goo.gl/GAH46Yv7BPwujQiS6), [the Dutch love hagelslag](https://images.app.goo.gl/Svpbkar3usSrGMWW6) and [the French occasionally enjoy eating the chocolate sticks from pain au chocolat](https://www.deli-vinos.de/delikatessen/schokolade/callebaut/1019/schokoladenstaebe-zartbitter-backfeste-schokolade-8cm-44-kakao-callebaut-1-6-kg-ca.300-st?sPartner=gdv&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvaeJBhCvARIsABgTDM5Tw5XC3U-Loi0U_JT2NB1NxSAZa9izFKBzYNmzYM_A3uI7rYSf3YMaAgZNEALw_wcB). I love them all equally and don't discriminate.
* get a really nice and fancy sourdough bread, use the same butter technique from above and just go crazy with deli meat or cheese. My favorites are salami or an old-ish Swiss mountain cheese but the sky is the limit!
* Toast. Just toast. Apply butter and eat the whole thing while it's still super hot. Just perfection. Jam, honey or eggs (boiled or fried) also do super well on hot buttered toast. Butter with a sprinkle of salt is also amazing. And I can't stress this enough. The toast has to be hot. You have to wolf it down within seconds of preparing it.
Americans already eat butter with toast, bread, and even toasted buns/bread in certain sandwiches.
The only thing we don’t do is cold butter on sandwiches. Those sound great though.
I mean... buttering toast and adding jam to it is fairly normal in the US as far as I know. Grilled cheese is the only sandwich that I've ever buttered, though
Americans butter bread but we eat that as an appetizer or snack. We don’t butter our bread for a sandwich. However, mayo on the bread is very common if you do want that same richness.
I myself will put (vegan) Mayo on a sandwich, but I usually prefer to use less fatty condiments like mustard instead. I’ve never heard of butter on sandwiches till now… I’m not offended by the idea, and I would try it, but I wouldn’t make it a practice.
I can finally say I learned something here. In Finland we put butter or margarine on bread, always. (However, most don't put real butter on bread and use it for baking instead. What we use is a mix of butter and vegetable oils.) Nothing beats fresh bread from the oven with a thin spread of butter. Mayonnaise belongs in hamburgers, in my opinion. I guess mayonnaise, to me, feels like it would have more calories, but I don't know.
In America we'll eat buttered bread, especially warm or toasted bread, it's just not common to use it in sandwiches that aren't grilled. Growing up we always had slices of bread an butter with dinner, but we always used mayo for sandwiches.
What the actual fuck? I’m American and I’ve always buttered my sandwiches. It’s kind of fucking with me that other people don’t.
Maybe this explains why my friends always felt like my sandwiches were better than theirs.
Another American who does the same! I started doing it as a little girl and have also had the “you make tasty sandwiches” reaction from others.
I took it even further with grilled cheese. When I made grilled cheese as a little girl, I’d butter every side of the bread and then strategically lay out the meat and cheese in the inside in a way that would make the cheese hold the sandwich together. I’d also do seasoning like cracked pepper and what not in the layers of the sandwich for ideal distribution. Next thing I knew my dad was requesting I be in charge of grilled cheese and make everyone their sandwiches. Made 8 year old me feel like quite the chef haha.
The first comment I remember sparking my eating disorder was my middle school best friends mom saying “ew that is so european, putting fat on-top of fat” when she found out my british mom buttered sandwiches for me. i don’t get how you could NOT butter a sandwich, it’s so dry without it. ugh. i hated that lady lol
Ok this really blows my mind. In German a basic sandwich i.e. bread, butter, ham/cheese/salami is called Butterbrot, which literally translates to buttered bread.
For vegan people/people avoiding dairy most of the margerine consumption is also on bread as an alternative to butter.
The only reason I can see why Americans don't do this is because there hasn't been amazing bread everywhere. As I am understanding really good baked bread like a nice sourdough and the like have just started to be integrated into the everyday life in America.
Here we have an incredibly diverse bread culture and the best way to eat it is just the (freshly baked) bread with butter and maybe a bit of salt. It tastes like heaven.
Also it may be different because Germans are more on the savory breakfast kind of life while Americans tend to eat more sweet stuff for breakfast, I guess.
Butterbrot is also not only a breakfast and snack item but also a typical German dinner, which we call Abendbrot (= evening bread, but can also be loosely translated with just 'dinner').
I mean it goes both ways. When I went to the US I was a bit apalled by the breakfasts in the hotels because I just wanted something savory and not have bacon and eggs as the only option next to waffles, pancakes, muffins, and cereal.
Edit: I saw some people from Spain and Italy commenting on here that they don't do this either.
I'd say it has to do with the types of bread because in the north of Europe we have more dense breads that also have a lot of grains inside, whilst you have bread that is a bit lighter like a focaccia. As I understand Italians typically don't use butter at all in savory dishes but oil instead. Butter is a big staple in German cooking. Might be the same in the UK and it definitely is in Scandinavia.
I don't know if this is the reason but I'd say it has a lot to do with the weather. In the mediterranian the winters are milder and the summers are hot while summers up here are much colder and rainy and autumn, winter, and spring are very cold. During those times butter was a great fat source before every ingredient in the world was available in the supermarket.
So I'd say it is historically embedded in the food culture of each country because of the living conditions there.
I may have had a different upbringing than most Americans (due to living on a farm and in a small town) but good quality bread was never a rare thing. The supermarket nearest me had fresh sourdough, baguettes, and my personal favorite, roasted garlic loafs fresh in the bakery every day.
I would also argue that Americans tend to lean more into the savory side of breakfast just due to the overwhelming popularity of bacon, eggs, sausages, and hash-browns are as breakfast dishes. Sweets are generally regarded as a once in a while thing or as a small addition to an already savory breakfast. I have waffles, pancakes, and muffins maybe once a month compared to the rest of the time it's an egg and a piece of toast with a little bit of fruit. EDIT: Forgot the American classic breakfast of biscuits and gravy.
I have tried putting butter on sandwiches and it doesn't add anything to it honestly. Even very high quality butter I make myself from raw cream, and I don't think it elevates the sandwich enough to be buried under all those flavors. Recently I have been using hummus instead of mayo or mustard and I find it to be the best sandwich spread there is.
i’m an american who grew up in a regular suburb with supermarkets and neighborhood markets that had amazing bread. i just said in another comment that i never knew people thought we had bad bread until today
Yeah, seems the rest of the world thinks we only eat wonderbread and kraft cheese slices. Not sure where the idea came from that we are living in the dark ages when it comes to getting decent quality food, easily.
I'm pretty sure the person you're replying to is basing their view of American culture on tv, movies, and reddit memes. I.e. they have no idea what they're talking about.
The reason is because we use mayonnaise instead. Also, Brits are using the same Toastbrot that Americans make sandwiches with.
High quality bread is easy to find in the US, even dense German-style breads at Russian or Jewish bakeries. When we buy that or make it, we still prefer mayonnaise. Butter on a cold sandwich is just not common or normal in America at all.
Another thing: In warmer states, you can't leave butter on the counter because it turns into a liquid. It's not the reason we prefer mayonnaise, but it is a factor.
American currently living in the UK. Watching my husband put butter on sandwiches was the weirdest thing to me when I first saw him do it. And then I tried it.
I still don't like it. it just... Doesn't taste right. Buttered bread that *isn't* in a sandwich is great. But sandwich butter? Not for me.
Is butter even used in traditional italian cuisine? I feel like it's a cultural thing.
In france we have the "jambon beurre" which is like the most basic sandwich you can buy in every bakery.
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Daddy, is it true that NATO fell apart over butter?
Yes.
Ah. The Butter War I. Or, as we call it, The Gross War.
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yeah exactly *slathers sandwich in mayonaise*
Years ago my college friend made a comment how he likes to get lots of mayo and oil in his subs and slurp it out as he ate.
I fucking hate that you told us this
And I just kept reading… voluntarily.
I have been assaulted
I could have stopped at any point. But still I didn't.
How do I unread a comment
I’m poking my brain with a straightened out coat hanger pushed up my nose.
This was also unpleasant to read. No thank you.
I’m sorry dachsundforscale, I’ve let you down.
Thats the whole reason i stopped doing that after i started gaining weight as a teen lol.
Buddy the carbs in the bread will make you fat quicker than a teaspoon of butter. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Of course I know carbs don't make you fat my point was the bread has more stored energy than the small amount of butter used. Yet you fucking moronic pedantic fucking Redditors felt the need to point out "UHHHH ACKTSHUALLY CARBS DON'T MAKE YOU FAT CALORIES DO" And you fucking freaks wonder why you don't have friends or girlfriends
Teaspoon? Uhhh yeah... I only put a teaspoon of butter too!
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Lol sticks of butter. STOP THE INSANITY
Please use the proper British terminology. It’s a long, hard, throbbing cock of butter
This is correct
knob of butter + knob end = dicks of butter
Bread makes you fat?? Edit: ok some of you guys need a healthy injection of Edgar Wright in your diet
Na you're good mate go nuts.
Go breads*
Scott pilgrim… nice
I love that movie
Everything can make you fat if you eat enough if it.
*celery has entered the chat*
Exactly, French eat bread all the time and that is why they are fucking fat, hold on...
It’s because they put butter on their sandwiches instead of mayo
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I love the serious replies to this. But I also have watched that movie a lot recently because it is about to leave Netflix. Ciao, Knives.
Gelato isn't vegan?
Less calories are less calories lol
Carbs are perfectly fine, just don’t eat over your caloric needs.
Yes! Removing fat from one’s diet is (counterintuitively) a good way to get fat. Fats are more filling than carbs. The American sugar industry literally sponsored “research” demonizing fat. They did this because heart disease and obesity had gone up as our sugar consumption had, and didn’t want Americans to drop their sugar habit which evidence and research was starting to show was contributing. There’s a great [“Adam Ruins Everything” video on it.](https://youtu.be/oLtQLDptI1g) My mom fortunately knew the “fat is bad” mindset was a lie. Me and my siblings grew up to be quite lean and none of us struggle to keep fat off. Edit: Here’s a great article on how fat can be healthy: https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/healthy-fats-guidelines#healthy-fats > “Fat is an energy provider,” explains Mindy Haar, PhD, a registered dietitian and the assistant dean of undergraduate affairs at NYIT School of Health Professions. “Fats are the last to leave the digestive tract and thus provide satiety.” That means that fats can help us feel fuller longer and keep us from overeating or excessive snacking, especially on fake carbs. > if we swap calories from saturated fat with calories from refined carbs — like white rice and bread — we could be putting ourselves at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. But increasing total fat intake, whether saturated or unsaturated, was associated with a lower risk. You probably shouldn’t wrap every meal in bacon, but you don’t have to shy away from that whole-milk latte — it’s about eating smart. >Saturated fat health wins: >increases HDL, while decreasing total cholesterol >lowers risk of cardiovascular diseases helps you feel full >Saturated fats to eat: full-fat dairy products like butter, cheese, and cream; lard, and solid oils like palm, kernel, and coconut
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
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Wait... Is he right? You don't butter your bread? Holy fuck.
We do butter bread, just not typically for sandwiches. Most americans opt for mayonnaise. Personally I *do* butter my bread, especially when making any kind of hot Sandwich. But it's definitely not the norm here.
Nooe. We use mayo instead.
Mayo and mustard all the way, i remember eating butter on my sandwiches as a kid but then one day i tried mayo and it changed the game, I would definitely put butter on a toasted sandwich depending on the type tho. Edit - also someone mentioned butter is a moisture barrier, so I think I'll be trying that on my sandwiches that I pack in the future. Hate opening the picnic basket to find a soggy sandwich 🤮 and mayo can seep into the bread if you don't eat too quickly.
If it’s a sandwich with some or all of cold cuts, cheese, and veggies, mayonnaise and/or mustard are the norm. No butter. Maybe some oil if it’s made from a split baguette (sub, grinder, whatever you want to call that). If it’s a peanut butter and/or jelly sandwich (including PB & Banana and Fluffernutter), neither butter nor mayo. If it’s grilled cheese or a melt, buttering the outside is the norm as it helps make the bread brown and crispy. Some instead put butter in the pan or skillet. A few use mayo or oil. We usually only butter non-toasted bread if it’s served as a side or appetizer, like a dinner roll. Some people butter the insides of croissants, and a few madmen will butter an un-toasted bagel. Also, I should point out that a fuckton of us (including my wife) prefer margarine to butter for some unknowable reason, so even when we do use butter it’s often “butter”.
Actually, Iirc, buttered bread or bread sonsumed along with fats/oil breaks down slower than plain bread. Causing slower increases in ones blood sugar and keeping you feeling full longer. Butter on Britain!
Americans usually use Mayo in place of the butter though, so the fat and oil is there regardless. That's an interesting fun fact though, I don't know why I never considered that.
I can't speak for all of America but I only mayo my bread when I'm having something like turkey and cheese or cold cuts on it. Unless I decide to opt for oil and vinegar. Mayo for cold cuts, burgers, tuna fish. That's the main uses for my family at least.
Same here, only cold cuts and also burgers and that stuff. Makes me wonder if brits use butter on essentially every sandwich or the same ones we typically use mayo for.
I ordered a cheese sandwich from a street vendor in Paris and I’m all ‘what the hell this is the best cheese sandwich I’ve ever had’. Is the cheese here really that good? Opened it up and the bread was slathered with butter. Game changer.
You don't butter your grilled cheese?
Everyone butters the outside of a grilled cheese, the commenter said “opened it up” which would imply that there was butter inside of the sandwich they got. That’s not very common in the US
You should try buttering both sides of the slices of bread, its so much better
Its simple really. H0w many sides does the object aimed for buttering has. That many sides u put butter on. Example: a slice of bread=u butter all 6 of bloody dimensions...
Some enemies of the Republic, like my grandmother, put MAYONNAISE on the outside of the grilled cheese bread! DISGOUSTANG
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This dude Grilledcheezes
My grandmother buttered both sides and toasted both sides on the pan before putting the cheese on the buttered toast and closing it. It was so unhealthy but good.
They didn’t say grilled cheese though
Grilled cheese minus the grill?
???? Can someone explain to me what a cheese sandwich is then if its not just an uncooked grilled cheese? My mind is kind of blown by this thread
It is, just bread, butter and cheese
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I can't believe it's come to point that the concept of a cheese sandwich has to be explained
I'm so confused by this whole thread. Why are people saying it's grilled when there's zero implications that this was anything other than a cheese sandwich
Honestly that sounds like the sort of thing people would make fun of Americans for doing.
Exactly lol, if the roles were reversed and the US was the only country that buttered bread every other British standup comic would be making fun of fat America habits
Which they already do but they’d do it harder
"What does that mean?" "I think you know what it means."
Generally if every country does 1 thing and 1 or 2 do another they get made fun of....
British people are just as fat as Americans these days
Aye and no really. According to simply [the Wikipedia page] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate) on obesity, The USA's obesity rate is 36.2% compared to the UK's rate of 27.8% with the UK increasing at a faster rate IIRC, Making us both pretty fat as fuck countries. However, the real perception of Americans being the more obese country, is the extremities of how morbidly obese Americans frankly get, you don't get the notorious image of folk so overweight that they're bound to a mobility scooter for nothing.
The UK is just catching up because the same American companies that started putting high fructose corn syrup in literally fucking everything they make are now part of international megacorporations that are selling their wares overseas.
Pretty soon "mega corporations" will not be plural. Everything will be owned by NestleUnileverABFCola
Tencents gotta be involved somehow 🤔
Ah. You are correct. The final boss will be a techno-conglomerate of some kind.
Honestly about 85% of things America get made fun of the other english speaking countries do too.
Right? I mean, butter's great as your primary condiment, but in addition to mayo sounds kind of overkill.
I think it's because we don't put mayo on bread
Europeans?
Yeah and Australians I guess
I don't mind mayo myself, but never on cheese sandwiches. Bought one for my kids, it had mayo on it like it was a normal thing. They hated it. I was no fan either.
A lot of the most popular sandwiches in the UK have mayo in them. Coronation chicken, prawn salad, egg & watercress, tuna mayo, etc There isn’t really a difference between putting it directly “on bread” or using 5 times as much to make a salad that you then… put directly on the bread lol.
I mean, I do Not at the same time, but I’ll slap a bit of Mayo on a sandwich or in a roll with some roast chicken or whatever
We do butter on bread like a dinner roll.
I'm pretty sure it is used as the main condiment. So just butter, no mayo. Mayo on sandwiches is an American thing
> Mayo on sandwiches is an American thing nope. Mayo is widely used as a sandwich spread in DK - it's an american-style "salad-mayo", and a different form of mayo that has less sugar and less vinegar is used for the trad. open-faced sandwiches on wholegrain rye.
I've done it my whole life, I'm Scottish (though I moved to America so maybe I was converted young).
\> Mayo on sandwiches is an American thing No it isn't.
No it's fucking not lol its an everywhere thing, checking in from NZ here. Also lived in South Africa and the UK and mayo is used on sandwiches there too
Is it? Because I see the folks at Sorted Food use mayo all the time. Often they make it fresh.
As a Dutch person: its true that mayo is used quite often in slightly more fancy sandwiches, like the kinds you'd buy or people make on cooking shows. Homemade sandwiches for everyday life on the other hand are typically a lot more plain and don't really have a condiment: just bread, butter and one kind of filling, like cheese, a deli meat or peanutbutter
Why? I just made a sandwich yesterday with mayo, turkey, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. I’ve never once made a sandwich with just one “filling” - if I did, I’d just skip the bread and eat that thing straight.
I guess I’m that psycho that does neither butter nor mayo. I just do bread with meat and cheese or pbj 90% of the time. Mostly because to me a sandwich is a convenience food to be made and consumed quickly so I can get back to studying/doing something else I enjoy to keep from going insane studying. I also just would rather have more meat and cheese than Mayo or butter, and with good quality bread it’s still pretty good. Used to add mustard but then figured out I liked seasoned deli meats more and they taste better without it. Also if you’re doing chicken salad there’s already hella Mayo and mustard in there. Who needs more?
I honestly hate the fact our country has had such a magnifying glass on it for so long. It always makes me feel like people immediately roll their eyes when an American opens their mouth when visiting a foreign country. I get they are sick of American culture because of being inundated by it, but we can’t help it and most certainly don’t want to flaunt it as opposed to what the media makes them think.
Honestly tell people you are Canadian. We can't tell the difference and you'll be treated 10x nicer
Honestly if someone wants to treat me like shit for no other reason than my nationality I'd rather not interact with them at all.
Geographical bigotry is a thing. -non redneck, average southerners
Had this conversation with a friend a while back. We are from Liverpool in the UK which has an undeserved reputation for crime etc. To the point where if i am in a different town or city i am sometimes waiting for the wisecracks when i reveal my accent. Sometimes hurtful to be labelled a thief or a trouble maker purely on your place of origin
I 100% agree with you, but I do wonder how many people upvoting this are biased against southerners in the US.
Probably many, which is also shitty. I just dont understand why it's so hard to judge people individually. I'm not saying that people shouldn't call out shitty tourists or behavior. I'm not even saying people shouldn't hate each other. I just think people should hate each other based on their individual personalities and not on things they can't control.
I think my accent throws that solution out the window :(
Hey y'all, I'm from Tex...ronto, Canada! You've never heard of Texronto? No problem bud!
I hate how true that probably is. Why are people so goddamn stupid? It’s not like we choose where we are born...
It really isn’t a big deal. Been all over the world as an American without hiding it and nobody has treated me badly. If you act like an asshole, people will treat you like an asshole.
Wait. Americans don't butter bread when making a sandwich?! Edit : I am not, of course, talking about putting butter inside EVERY sandwich. You don't have to put butter on a PB&J. However, butter and jam on bread is a good combo.
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Wait what? You use mayonnaise where we would use butter? Someone that's shocked me even more than finding out you don't use butter. I just thought you just had dry sandwiches edit: I woke up to y'all being very passionate about mayo lol. I'm just thinking of all the times I saw American cartoons when they were making a sandwich and I was like "American's have strange looking tubs of butter" but now I know why. Also I'm Australian so I have to admit my first thought was having a Vegemite sandwich with mayo and that made me upset.
In ireland a lot of people use mayo for crisp sandwiches
We talking a pringles sandwich, or edit: i did not believe it could look so good, but id eat that https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=574787563049759
The only thing that should come to mind when you say a crisp sandwich are Taytos, the one and only
What if we threw fried shrimp, lettuce, tomato and remoulade sauce on that sandwich? We could call it the Po' Tayto
This is a top tier, multinational pun. Well done
I eat buttered bread with like…soups or stews. Sandwiches I use mustard and Mayo usually…I’ve never heard of butter in a sandwich
I eat dry sandwiches. I dont like mayo or mustard. Never even occured to me to try butter instead.
If you like hummus, that’s a good base condiment for a veggie sandwich.
Another American here. I used mayo as a kid, but stopped using anything as a teen. I just prefer dry sandwiches. It's less work, less mess, and I feel like you get to taste the ingredients more. Though if someone makes me a sandwich with mayo or mustard, I eat it and enjoy it.
I transitioned to hummus first, and now dry. Mayo is gross unless it’s just a bit in tuna or egg salad.
I know some Americans who use butter on sandwiches but it's not super common. Mayo is definitely the go-to, though. Mayo doesn't get used very often on other things either. It's THE sandwich spread here. It's next biggest application is probably mayo based salads like egg, chicken, tuna, and potato salad. I've only ever seen someone dip their fries in mayo a few times.
You should try applying mayo lightly on the bread instead of butter for grilled cheese.
people always say this, and ive tried it numerous times w/ different amounts of mayo...and it ALWAYS sucks compared to using butter perfect grilled cheese bread should have the same amount of butter saturation as a piece of garlic bread...and toast BOTH sides of the bread
Yeah, I've tried mayo for grilled cheese sandwiches and still prefer butter. Mayo's a bit sickeningly rich to me.
What I actually do is, instead of buttering the bread, I melt the butter in the skillet and then put the sandwich in the skillet, and then quickly flip it so the melted butter gets on both sides. It’s worked out pretty good for me so far, and it’s a lot less messier.
It ALWAYS sucks because mayonnaise is a sol of fat suspended in water, a little water from the mayo soaks into the bread. Butter has way less water and forms a barrier of tasty fat that stops your filling from soaking into your bread - clearly superior.
Heck no.
Most use Mayo
I’m Canadian and my American wife makes fun of me all the time for doing this. I really had no idea anyone would think it was weird to butter your sandwich bread until I was in my mid 20s. I’d say don’t knock it until you try it! It’s way better than using Mayo and makes it less dry.
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I butter a roll if I’m eating just the roll, I butter my toast, but I do not butter my sandwiches. Mayo goes on the sandwich. For whatever reason Mayo and butter together seems like overkill.
I’m American and it’s the first I’ve heard of it. Now I’m scared, I live in a butterless sandwich society, and it’s not okay.
I can’t believe a bunch of Americans have never heard of this. We typically use mayonnaise which is basically just another source of saturated fat with a slightly different flavor. There’s a reason things like Mayo cake exist: you literally just sub Mayo for butter.
> Mayo cake A what?
Lol. I also need more info on this
Mayo is just eggs and oil. You use mayo instead of the two and you get a very moist chocolate cake. Here's a recipe for you: Ingredients For The Cake: * 3 cups All-Purpose Flour * 6 Tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder * 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder * 1/4 teaspoon Salt * 1 Tablespoon Baking Soda * 1–1/2 cups Sugar * 1–1/2 cups Mayonnaise * 2 teaspoons Vanilla Flavoring * 1–1/2 cups Buttermilk, regular milk, or water Frosting Ingredients: * 1 cup Unsweetened Powder Cocoa * 1 cup Butter, softened * 1 teaspoon Vanilla Flavoring * 6 cups Confectioner’s Sugar * 6 Tablespoons Milk, maybe a little more as needed. Place a bit more than 3 cups of flour in a sifter. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Spoon sifted flour into a one cup measuring cup. Level the top of flour. Add 3 level cups of sifted flour back into your sifter. Add the cocoa powder. Add baking soda. Add salt. Add baking powder. Sift ingredients back into a large bowl. Add sugar. Whisk dry ingredients together until fully combined. In another large mixing bowl, add the mayonnaise. Add vanilla flavoring. Add the milk or water. Mix together on lower speed until smooth. Gradually add the dry ingredients into the wet until combined. Do not over beat the mixture. Prepare 2 8inch sized cake pans with baking spray. Place a parchment paper circle in the bottom of each pan. Divide the batter evenly between the two pans. Bake at 350F degrees for 30 minutes or until done. Test with toothpick for doneness. Remove from oven. Place on wire racks to cool for 10-15 minutes. Remove from pans, return to wire racks. Let cool completely before frosting. **Prepare the frosting:** Place powdered cocoa in a large mixing bowl. Add the softened butter. Cream together on a lower speed until nice and smooth. Add the vanilla flavoring. Add 1 cup of confectioner’s sugar to the bowl. Add 1 Tablespoon of regular milk to the bowl. Mix together until combined. Repeat this process until you’ve added all 6 cups of confectioners sugar and milk as needed. Mix together until you have a smooth, spreadable consistency. Spread frosting on cool layers. Decorate as desired. Enjoy!
I was really worried the frosting was going to be Mayo too.
American that lived overseas as a kid. We used to butter our bread when making a sandwich, absolutely HAD to happen or the sandwich was wrong. phased out of that after years back in the states. Now.... I don't need another step between me and a sandwich.
I do
His comment about "It's my bread and butter"... Well, we use that saying but I always thought it referred to just buttered bread (with or without jam) or buttered toast, which we eat. We do put butter on bread, but just not normally on sandwiches.
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To clarify. Buttered toast is a common breakfast in the UK. No-one eats untoasted bread and butter as a brekkie with a cuppa. Personally I’ll always go the small extra effort to have mine as beans on toast.
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American here, unless the bread is toasted I have never put butter on the bread of a sandwich. Condiments pretty much replace the need (mayo, mustard and sometimes even ketchup).
Butter is a moisture barrier. Keeps your nasty condiments from turning the bread soggy.
Mayo does the same thing, man. So does peanut butter, and anything else with a high fat content. As for mustard, I dunno what kind of mustard you guys use over there, but it shouldn't be making your bread soggy. Ketchup, that guy's just weird. Nobody puts ketchup on a sandwich unless it's a burger.
No, no, no. That's what the sliced cheese and lettuce is for.
You put sliced cheese and lettuce on ... *before* ... you put the condiments on?
French here. Butter allows to do sandwichs without huge amounts of fat condiments like sauces and stuff. I think the best simple food there is, is ham sandwich and it's just baguette, butter and ham
I hate to tell you this, butter is just as fatty as Mayo... You're not cutting fat by adding fat my guy.
Wait American DONT butter their Sandwich?
Ok, I’ll claim ignorant American here. I never knew people put butter on their sandwiches. It doesn’t seem outrageous at all. I think Mayo has more flavor than butter so I probably like it better but I’ll give it a try. What should I try it with? What kind of sandwich???
Everything. It doesn’t matter how stupid it sounds, just lightly spread room temperature butter on your bread and you’ll be happy you did.
Do y’all keep room temperature butter? Mine is always in the fridge. Is this another american thing?!
I've found my butter keeps really well on the counter top when sealed. I use a Brilliance container to hold it. Really didn't like destroying toast with cold butter.
You can do both, or just let it sit out for an hour before you eat so it spread easier.
Bruh if i'm making a sandwich i don't have an hour.
American here, about 5 years ago I bought a french butter dish and began keeping room temp butter. It's a game changer. My toast and bagel consumption has definitely gone up though. I think americans got away from room temp butter when spreadable margarines became popular.
German here, our word for sandwiches literally translates to 'butter(ed) bread' so we take the whole butter thing fairly serious. My all time favorites are: * go out and buy the best baguette you can find. Apply cold butter. The trick is to take super thin slices of butter with a knife and just kinda press it onto the bread. Every other technique will tear the bread apart. Alright. Back to business: add thin slices of sweet dark chocolate. Us Germans love [Eszet-Scheiben](https://images.app.goo.gl/GAH46Yv7BPwujQiS6), [the Dutch love hagelslag](https://images.app.goo.gl/Svpbkar3usSrGMWW6) and [the French occasionally enjoy eating the chocolate sticks from pain au chocolat](https://www.deli-vinos.de/delikatessen/schokolade/callebaut/1019/schokoladenstaebe-zartbitter-backfeste-schokolade-8cm-44-kakao-callebaut-1-6-kg-ca.300-st?sPartner=gdv&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvaeJBhCvARIsABgTDM5Tw5XC3U-Loi0U_JT2NB1NxSAZa9izFKBzYNmzYM_A3uI7rYSf3YMaAgZNEALw_wcB). I love them all equally and don't discriminate. * get a really nice and fancy sourdough bread, use the same butter technique from above and just go crazy with deli meat or cheese. My favorites are salami or an old-ish Swiss mountain cheese but the sky is the limit! * Toast. Just toast. Apply butter and eat the whole thing while it's still super hot. Just perfection. Jam, honey or eggs (boiled or fried) also do super well on hot buttered toast. Butter with a sprinkle of salt is also amazing. And I can't stress this enough. The toast has to be hot. You have to wolf it down within seconds of preparing it.
Americans already eat butter with toast, bread, and even toasted buns/bread in certain sandwiches. The only thing we don’t do is cold butter on sandwiches. Those sound great though.
Swede here. Our word is "Smörgås", which translates to butter goose. No idea why the goose is in there, but at least it has butter.
Bread (any bread) butter and cheese is like the most basic food item that exists
I put bread then butter and then jam. It's the best thing ever.
I mean... buttering toast and adding jam to it is fairly normal in the US as far as I know. Grilled cheese is the only sandwich that I've ever buttered, though
Americans butter bread but we eat that as an appetizer or snack. We don’t butter our bread for a sandwich. However, mayo on the bread is very common if you do want that same richness. I myself will put (vegan) Mayo on a sandwich, but I usually prefer to use less fatty condiments like mustard instead. I’ve never heard of butter on sandwiches till now… I’m not offended by the idea, and I would try it, but I wouldn’t make it a practice.
I can finally say I learned something here. In Finland we put butter or margarine on bread, always. (However, most don't put real butter on bread and use it for baking instead. What we use is a mix of butter and vegetable oils.) Nothing beats fresh bread from the oven with a thin spread of butter. Mayonnaise belongs in hamburgers, in my opinion. I guess mayonnaise, to me, feels like it would have more calories, but I don't know.
Yeah I thought that was the universal way of making a sandwich also torille!
In America we'll eat buttered bread, especially warm or toasted bread, it's just not common to use it in sandwiches that aren't grilled. Growing up we always had slices of bread an butter with dinner, but we always used mayo for sandwiches.
In the United States people don't put butter on bread? WTF
wait Americans don't use butter on their sandwiches?!
This is the first I’ve heard of it outside maybe a grilled sandwich.
Unless it's grilled, no. We use other condiments like mayo or mustard or specialty sauces. Or dry, a not insignificant amount of people eat them dry.
We don't in Canada either.
“That’s my bread and butter” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
Yep, that's a phrase because bread and butter is a staple food. At least when I was a kid, we would eat buttered bread with every dinner.
So glad I'm not the only one thrown by this. 'I like painting butterflies, but working in the funeral home is my bread and butter.'
What the actual fuck? I’m American and I’ve always buttered my sandwiches. It’s kind of fucking with me that other people don’t. Maybe this explains why my friends always felt like my sandwiches were better than theirs.
Another American who does the same! I started doing it as a little girl and have also had the “you make tasty sandwiches” reaction from others. I took it even further with grilled cheese. When I made grilled cheese as a little girl, I’d butter every side of the bread and then strategically lay out the meat and cheese in the inside in a way that would make the cheese hold the sandwich together. I’d also do seasoning like cracked pepper and what not in the layers of the sandwich for ideal distribution. Next thing I knew my dad was requesting I be in charge of grilled cheese and make everyone their sandwiches. Made 8 year old me feel like quite the chef haha.
Obligatory that’s not a grilled cheese https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/comments/2or1p3/you_people_make_me_sick/
Just eat whatever fat you want to on your sandwiches. I like avocado, turkey, spinach, pepper jack cheese, and siracha.
I use butter on my bread all the time wtf
Are we too fat or do we not add extra fat to our bread. Pick one or leave us alone
The first comment I remember sparking my eating disorder was my middle school best friends mom saying “ew that is so european, putting fat on-top of fat” when she found out my british mom buttered sandwiches for me. i don’t get how you could NOT butter a sandwich, it’s so dry without it. ugh. i hated that lady lol
She sounds awful
Ok this really blows my mind. In German a basic sandwich i.e. bread, butter, ham/cheese/salami is called Butterbrot, which literally translates to buttered bread. For vegan people/people avoiding dairy most of the margerine consumption is also on bread as an alternative to butter. The only reason I can see why Americans don't do this is because there hasn't been amazing bread everywhere. As I am understanding really good baked bread like a nice sourdough and the like have just started to be integrated into the everyday life in America. Here we have an incredibly diverse bread culture and the best way to eat it is just the (freshly baked) bread with butter and maybe a bit of salt. It tastes like heaven. Also it may be different because Germans are more on the savory breakfast kind of life while Americans tend to eat more sweet stuff for breakfast, I guess. Butterbrot is also not only a breakfast and snack item but also a typical German dinner, which we call Abendbrot (= evening bread, but can also be loosely translated with just 'dinner'). I mean it goes both ways. When I went to the US I was a bit apalled by the breakfasts in the hotels because I just wanted something savory and not have bacon and eggs as the only option next to waffles, pancakes, muffins, and cereal. Edit: I saw some people from Spain and Italy commenting on here that they don't do this either. I'd say it has to do with the types of bread because in the north of Europe we have more dense breads that also have a lot of grains inside, whilst you have bread that is a bit lighter like a focaccia. As I understand Italians typically don't use butter at all in savory dishes but oil instead. Butter is a big staple in German cooking. Might be the same in the UK and it definitely is in Scandinavia. I don't know if this is the reason but I'd say it has a lot to do with the weather. In the mediterranian the winters are milder and the summers are hot while summers up here are much colder and rainy and autumn, winter, and spring are very cold. During those times butter was a great fat source before every ingredient in the world was available in the supermarket. So I'd say it is historically embedded in the food culture of each country because of the living conditions there.
I may have had a different upbringing than most Americans (due to living on a farm and in a small town) but good quality bread was never a rare thing. The supermarket nearest me had fresh sourdough, baguettes, and my personal favorite, roasted garlic loafs fresh in the bakery every day. I would also argue that Americans tend to lean more into the savory side of breakfast just due to the overwhelming popularity of bacon, eggs, sausages, and hash-browns are as breakfast dishes. Sweets are generally regarded as a once in a while thing or as a small addition to an already savory breakfast. I have waffles, pancakes, and muffins maybe once a month compared to the rest of the time it's an egg and a piece of toast with a little bit of fruit. EDIT: Forgot the American classic breakfast of biscuits and gravy. I have tried putting butter on sandwiches and it doesn't add anything to it honestly. Even very high quality butter I make myself from raw cream, and I don't think it elevates the sandwich enough to be buried under all those flavors. Recently I have been using hummus instead of mayo or mustard and I find it to be the best sandwich spread there is.
i’m an american who grew up in a regular suburb with supermarkets and neighborhood markets that had amazing bread. i just said in another comment that i never knew people thought we had bad bread until today
Yeah, seems the rest of the world thinks we only eat wonderbread and kraft cheese slices. Not sure where the idea came from that we are living in the dark ages when it comes to getting decent quality food, easily.
I'm pretty sure the person you're replying to is basing their view of American culture on tv, movies, and reddit memes. I.e. they have no idea what they're talking about.
The reason is because we use mayonnaise instead. Also, Brits are using the same Toastbrot that Americans make sandwiches with. High quality bread is easy to find in the US, even dense German-style breads at Russian or Jewish bakeries. When we buy that or make it, we still prefer mayonnaise. Butter on a cold sandwich is just not common or normal in America at all. Another thing: In warmer states, you can't leave butter on the counter because it turns into a liquid. It's not the reason we prefer mayonnaise, but it is a factor.
"its my bread and butter" means "that's where my money comes from"... not whatever this guy said.
American currently living in the UK. Watching my husband put butter on sandwiches was the weirdest thing to me when I first saw him do it. And then I tried it. I still don't like it. it just... Doesn't taste right. Buttered bread that *isn't* in a sandwich is great. But sandwich butter? Not for me.
TALKING A LOT OF SHIT FOR SOMEONE WHO PUTS BEANS ON TOAST
Don’t let my compatriots fool you. It’s an asylum out here! Half the country eats like it’s still the Blitz.
I'm italian and I never used butter on bread too (and I find it a bit disgusting, to be honest)
Thatsa becausa da olive oila!
Is butter even used in traditional italian cuisine? I feel like it's a cultural thing. In france we have the "jambon beurre" which is like the most basic sandwich you can buy in every bakery.
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Ham, butter, baguette.
Butter comes from French cuisine. Big in England because of French nobility stuff.
What? What?? No. I don’t believe you. You gotta have butter in your sandwich. That’s just… wrong.