Spin off of the Sandwiches from the past thread-tell us

I love that brown cheese, we call it pb cheese, but I am the only one in my family that likes it.  

My grandpa put butter on all the sandwiches he made, I ate them, but never do that myself.

Mayo on turkey sandwiches with ground pepper on the Mayo.
I eat any kind of bread, just depends on what strikes my fancy when I am at the grocery store.

Treat sandwich is crunchy pb with a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips. 
No jelly on PB. Honey or just PB, but only chunky PB.  

My mother in law did that! Thought it was weird until I tried it on a ham sandwich - no mustard, just the butter. . It was so good that i did it for a while way back when.  Haven't done it in decades,  but earlier this year we paid tribute to her and had our ham sandwiches with butter for a few weeks. 

I only make two sandwiches.

One, a BLT, on sourdough, tons of crispy bacon, mayo on both sides of toasted bread, a thin slice of tomato, lettuce.

Two, an open-faced avocado melt, again on sourdough, with a little russian dressing or mayo, a pile of sliced avocado, and a slice of melted Swiss cheese.

That's it.  I'm not really a sandwich person.  I love chicken salad, eg, but I'll just eat a scoop of it plain.

Butter on a sandwich = yuck. Mayo on French fries = yum!

I haven't made a sandwich in years, idk why but I got out of the habit of eating bread. Occasionally we do get Jersey Mike's and I eat my ham sandwich with lettuce, tomato, provolone, and oregano and vinegar (no oil).

My mom used to butter my jelly sandwiches, I wouldn't eat peanut butter when I was a kid. She probably still does butter her sandwiches. She's a big fan of butter, cream, whole milk and mayo but she's thin as a rail.

I avoid mayo when I can because I don't think it tastes better than butter. 🤷‍♀️

I also prefer to make my own macaroni and potato salads because too much mayo makes me gag and makes many “salads” inedible. 

It is hard to have too much fresh butter on a slice of bread, IMO, however. Call me weird. 

When making a turkey sandwich, I will put avocado or brie on it - if possible - to avoid mayonaise.  

I put butter on turkey sandwiches.
I eat ham & cheese sandwiches without a condiment.

When I was a kid it was white bread, now it's whole wheat bread or a kaiser roll.

Yes - me!
I stopped buttering bread in my 20s. I just didn't see the point, and I never ate enough butter to leave it out but then it was always rock hard from the fridge and you couldn't spread it anyway, so I just stopped using it.
I can go months without buying any butter.
I generally don't buy bread either, so if I want a sandwich, then it's a planned shopping trip, and then I'll often buy an avocado and use that as the base.
I also don't like vegemite therefore no butter needed for that. Occasionally I'll have PB, honey, cinnamon and sliced banana, but there's plenty of fat from the PB so you don't need butter as well.

The only time I butter bread is if I am eating it plain or if it's a roll to go with soup.
While I don't think butter is necessary, I'm happy to eat it if someone else makes me a sandwich with butter on it.

I add a smidge of Dijon mustard to the mayo on a BLT (sourdough); it really elevates it for me.

I only use butter on a grilled cheese or tuna melt (outside of bread) or the very rare piece of breakfast toast.

I will do cream cheese with diced dried cranberries and fresh rosemary on ciabatta rolls with roast turkey and provolone cheese.

Growing up my mother used mayo for grilled cheese and I never cared for it.

My giddy aunt!!!There are many threads on here that surprise me but I had to read the opening post 4 times before I was willing to accept what was being said.

I have been yelling in my head “how can you not know how to make a sandwich?” It’s buttered bread of any kind with a filling which might just include mayo depending on if the sandwich is savoury or sweet. Of course you butter the bread! It helps stop the bread going soggy and adds to the flavour.

My eyes were open in horror and I was opened mouthed until I read elaine’s and AussieMeg’s posts. Hurrah. The voices of reason and elaine even went as far as to talk about too much mayo on macaroni or potatoes. Yes! This exactly.

I need to go and lie down.

Oh, and just for the record, when I was a child a bacon grease sandwich was a thing.

Oh, again, a sandwich is known as a buttie for a reason!

Well I was going to go on a bit of a rant but gillyp and AussieMeg covered it for me 

Butter is as obvious as the bread! But yes, mayo or salad cream/ketchup/pickle or whatever are often welcome additions too.

The bread needs to be decent...no white pappy cottonwool stuff, it has to be seeded or sourdough or something interesting and with a bit of bite to it.

Having said that I'm not a huge sandwich fan particularly but growing up a standard sandwich would have been ham and mustard or pickle, cheese and tomato, fish paste, Bovril or, if we were staying with my grandparents, a sugar sandwich!!   

This is a bit of an eye opener and has helped make sense of something that happened some years back.

My sister in law is American, and years ago when she was visiting here in the UK she ordered a sandwich when we were out and was horrified that it arrived with butter on the bread. She took the sandwich apart and her expression was one of shock and distaste . Her eyes were wide open and she seemed that it was unexpected . She shouted out this has DAIRY in a loud voice and looked around the room at us, the staff and other customers.

I did not say anything but just sat there quietly wondering why she was so surprised and why she would have expected a sandwich without butter because that would not be normal. Anyway, the staff remade her another sandwich without butter upon request. Her husband is English so it would have made sense for him to let her know in advance if he anticipated a problem knowing different sandwich making practices.

I did not realise that unbuttered sandwich eating is a thing in the US , I just thought her reaction was down to personal preference but reading this thread I have learned otherwise.

 Guess the difference is cultural.

PS. I love buttered sandwiches ! But still respect those who don’t

I forgot to add sandwich filling details -

I still like fillings that I grew up with like cheddar cheese and cucumber slices or boiled egg mashed with Heinz salad cream. Other fillings I also enjoy are cheese and roasted courgettes ( zuchini ) peppers and onion. Another one is cottage cheese and dates and lastly another filling grated raw carrot , sultanas and cheese.

My favourite Marks and Spencer sandwich is Wensleydale cheese with carrot chutney .

I remember my mom putting butter on sandwiches when I was young (so in the mid-70s). I think it was very common among the generation before the Baby Boomers and gradually fell out of favor.

Butter no, no, no.
My mother in law put butter on peanut and jelly sandwiches. My husband tried to feed this to our kids, until I stopped it. Calling them double fat sandwiches did the trick.

We rarely used mayonnaise, until we discovered Dukes.

I grew up on peanut butter and honey sandwiches more often than jelly. My mother liked to give us local honey going tp help with allergies and irritants.