Butter on your sandwich, how many slices ?

[Walter John]

Time to end an argument on how many slices of bread you butter when making a 2 slice standard sandwich

[_Keith]

butter?

[Kennybenjamin]

Who knew that Palmtalk would be solving the worlds biggest unanswered questions...

[Walter John]

butter?

Sorry Keith, replace butter with budder, and try the poll again.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

When it comes to making sandwiches, I know which side of my bread is buttered. I also know that I butter both slices, just to be sure.

Next question:

Cold butter?

or

melted butter?

or

whipped butter?

[Jeff Searle]

Wal, could this poll not be expanded to include other condiments such as mayo and peanut butter? The overwhelming responses are "off the chart"!!!

Are you getting payed for this?

[Walter John]

I don't wish to butter you up but this is just a butter question. If you use mayo or something other than butter then the answer would be "none". I've been having an argument for over 30 years on this with my partner, so I thought I'd see what everyone else does. Yes, I have time on my hands.

[Funkthulhu]

I have never made a two slice sandwich with just butter. . . Even peanut butter sandwiches have jelly/jam but never butter.

That being said, I will butter the crap out of a hot single slice of fresh bread and/or toast, but no sandwich. (...that's just weird)

Edited July 25, 2014 by Funkthulhu

[Stevetoad]

I've never used butter on a sandwich myself. But my mom used to butter both slices of bread on my sandwiches that she packed for my lunch when I was a kid. She said the butter keeps the bread from getting soggy.

[sur4z]

I butter answer this way: I put butter on both slices AND mayo or jelly.

[Kim]

No bread to butter! I only eat what goes inside the sandwich, like the tomato and lettuce and sliced turkey.

Buttering sandwich bread seems like soemthing people in Denmark or Holland would do. Not a California thing. Now, toast, that's different. Toast gets buttered.

[paulgila]

yeah, what kim said!

[MattyB]

We are talking about butt cracks, right? Just to be clear. If so my answer is still 2.

[_Keith]

OK. My question was serious. You know all I have to go by with you Aussies is that old song talking about a Vegemite sandwich, whatever the heck that is. So, I answered two based on butter,like on grilled cheese which is one of the few sandwiches I would use butter. Peanut butter would be two. Being a good old southerner I would op for Mayonnaise of which the answer would also be two, but mustard would only be on onside. Oh, and one side would have a standard 9-drop pattern of Tabasco as well.

[Al in Kona]

Never use butter on a sandwich, only use mayo and sometimes a small amount of mustard (depending on what kind of sandwich). The bread would be whole grain (never white) and tomato & lettuce included on most sandwiches, sometimes a slice of pepper-jack cheese.

[bgl]

Making this into an argument is beyond silly. No right or wrong answers - all about personal preferences, as well as big differences between different countries and cultures. For instance, where I come from, no such thing as a "standard 2 slice sandwich". Standard would be a "1 slice sandwich". And standard would definitely be to put butter on it - NO MATTER WHAT! Personally I stopped that many many years ago. Again, personal preference.

[_Keith]

Oh, I almost forgot when I was little we would eat butter and jelly sandwiches. Man, they were so good. And now that this topic has reminded me, I think I'll have one for a snack in just a little while.

[_Keith]

Now, its official, two sides.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Now, its official, two sides.

You need to put jelly on both sides too. And maybe some more butter.

[_Keith]

Now, its official, two sides.

You need to put jelly on both sides too. And maybe some more butter.

Now, after eating it, I agree on both points.

[aussiearoids]

Keith ..'a standard 9-drop pattern of Tabasco as well.'

so , is that 3 rows of 3 drops ?

or something more intricate ?

I have taken to using a home made fermented 'liquid fire' sauce

done by my Chilli Queen .. makes Tabasco tame

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

I think you have to draw a "Happy Face" patern.

[DoomsDave]

Hmm. I hardly ever eat bread, but when I do, I'll butter individual slices eaten by themselves. In a sandwich, I don't butter them, unless peanut butter counts . . . .

[dalmatiansoap]

One

[fan palm]

always did one because I was mislead as a kid. started doing two and haven't looked back!

[Daryl]

Whilst we are on the subject, when I was at the Biennial I noticed that all of the butter was very pale in colour...almost white....over here it is yellow...just an observation...but weird!

Daryl

[_Keith]

Whilst we are on the subject, when I was at the Biennial I noticed that all of the butter was very pale in colour...almost white....over here it is yellow...just an observation...but weird!

Daryl

Not weird at all. Our butter in the US is crap. I always buy imported butter, so it tastes, well so it taste like butter.

[Palm crazy]

Organic butter is always white or very light yellow other wise they have to put dyes in it to get the yellow color. It also depends on what time of the year butter is made that determines how bright the color is naturally.

The only time I see butter on a sandwich is when you buy those crappy vending machines sandwiches.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Palm crazy

[_Keith]

Whilst we are on the subject, when I was at the Biennial I noticed that all of the butter was very pale in colour...almost white....over here it is yellow...just an observation...but weird!

Daryl

Not weird at all. Our butter in the US is crap. I always buy imported butter, so it tastes, well so it taste like butter.

This is butter, Once you try it, you'll never go back to mainstream American butter.

http://kerrygoldusa.com/

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Kerry Gold is some good butter but is 3 or 4 times the cost of regular butter at Aldis.

How about some NZ butter?

Does butter change color according to the cow feed? I know if you leave the cows out in the pasture too long, they get pasteurized.

[Palm crazy]

Does butter change color according to the cow feed? I know if you leave the cows out in the pasture too long, they get pasteurized.

I have read that some butter manufacturers use annatto (a yellow dye extracted from seeds of the annatto plant) to enrich the colour of the butter they make. A book I have (The Encyclopedia of Herbs, Spices and Flavourings) states that butter produced in winter, when the cows are fed on grain rather than grass, is sometimes less yellow than the butter made in spring and summer. For this reason, annatto may be added in minute quantities to enhance the colour, if necessary. From Norwick.

[Tropicgardener]

Always do both slices with butter but only one side with vegemite