A Question About Peanut Butter

[cotedupy]

So a while back I was shocked to learn that there are significant number of people out there, who if making a piece of toast with peanut butter... do not butter the toast first.

They regard peanut butter as some kind of butter substitute, that can happily be eaten on an otherwise dry piece of toast, just because it's called 'peanut butter'. What joyless breakfast times these people must endure!

So I was wondering: What say you in the Land of the Free™? I imagine you invented peanut butter, surely you know better than this nonsense...

 

[Heckel7302]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/americans-baffled-after-learning-brits-31429148.amp

 

[panda]

buttah make it mo bettah

 

[DoYoon Kim]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/americans-baffled-after-learning-brits-31429148.amp

So not gonna lie it might be a which part of America thing to. Can confirm my fams are firmly in the butter on bread tribe.

I do not due to lactose intolerance. I do not think margarine is a acceptable substitute for butter and would rather just lick the peanut butter.

 

[Rangen]

Butter on bread, peanut butter on celery. Margarine is not food.

Granting that Americans often put peanut butter on bread, I've never heard of having that for breakfast. It is solidly in the lunch category.

Many Americans grew up on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Wonder Bread, no butter. It's not gourmet food, but the whole does somehow transcend its parts, below about age 11.

 

[pgugger]

I have honestly never seen or heard of anyone putting butter and peanut butter on the same piece of bread or sandwich.

 

[Heckel7302]

Butter on bread, peanut butter on celery. Margarine is not food.

Granting that Americans often put peanut butter on bread, I've never heard of having that for breakfast. It is solidly in the lunch category.

Many Americans grew up on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Wonder Bread, no butter. It's not gourmet food, but the whole does somehow transcend its parts, below about age 11.

One of my favorite breakfasts growing up was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with Eggo waffles as the bread.

 

[M1k3]

I have honestly never seen or heard of anyone putting butter and peanut butter on the same piece of bread or sandwich.

It's really good.

 

[panda]

I have honestly never seen or heard of anyone putting butter and peanut butter on the same piece of bread or sandwich.

try it, it's awesome especially if use whipped butter

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

I bet honey butter and peanut butter would be divine.

 

[pgugger]

I think I will try it! It’s just not something I’ve encountered in the US… at least not where I grew up in NJ or the various places I’ve lived since.

 

[parbaked]

Peanut butter on toast is better with butter!
There’s no butter in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I like both..

 

[cotedupy]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/americans-baffled-after-learning-brits-31429148.amp

You're kidding me? This must be a joke, surely?!?

One of the most popular sandwiches in the world is literally called: 'Ham Butter'. And they've managed to find someone who's completely unable to understand the concept...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambon-beurre

 

[Vertigo]

One of my favorite breakfasts growing up was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with Eggo waffles as the bread.

We didn't serve a PBJ, but this super fussy high maintenance table insisted it's the only thing their child would eat. Chef makes it on multi-grain bread, blackcurrant jam, ground peanuts in the robo, and a healthy spread of butter on each slice.

Kid had a full frickin meltdown. It was spectacular.

Edit - Sorry for the quote. On mobile with fat fingers.

 

[panda]

I'm gonna make a brioche marcona butter with fig jam uncrustables tomorrow, and toast the outside with butter.

 

[panda]

butter is also good in coffee

 

[parbaked]

Americans don’t put butter on most sandwiches. Mayo and mustard are the standard spreads.
The rest of the world seems to butter their sandwiches including everything from bahn mi on the streets of Saigon to egg salad in a Japanese convenience store.

 

[SwampDonkey]

Peanut butter on toast is better with butter!
There’s no butter in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I like both..

Spot on, this.

Butter with peanut butter usage has a linear relationship with the heat applied.

 

[panda]

butter in egg salad sammy?? that sounds weird lol unless it's just to coat the outside of a baguette to lightly toast in oven

 

[HolyDiverScallop]

I could go for a jambon beurre about now.

 

[Heckel7302]

You're kidding me? This must be a joke, surely?!?

One of the most popular sandwiches in the world is literally called: 'Ham Butter'. And they've managed to find someone who's completely unable to understand the concept...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambon-beurre


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Can confirm, butter is the last thing an American would think to put on a sandwich unless it was on the outside of a grilled cheese (aka cheese toastie).

You guys put butter and cucumbers on bread and call it a sandwich. Talk about weird.

 

[panda]

I could go for a jambon beurre about now.

with cornichon slices and maille grain mustard

 

[SwampDonkey]

Honestly I'd try butter on an egg salad sammy. I'm already eating mayo and egg...butter isn't going to hurt things

 

[panda]

Honestly I'd try butter on an egg salad sammy. I'm already eating mayo and egg...butter isn't going to hurt things

swap white bread for a croissant make it a butter overload

 

[SwampDonkey]

 

[Michi]

I have honestly never seen or heard of anyone putting butter and peanut butter on the same piece of bread or sandwich.

You have now

 

[Rideon66]

Peanut butter smells like the stuff you dig out from under a toe nail. Nasty. Plus they a lot of the times contain aflatoxins from mold that is carcinogenic.

 

[cotedupy]

Spot on, this.

Butter with peanut butter usage has a linear relationship with the heat applied.

Now ^this^ is an interesting, and I think very perceptive, theory.

A strong positive correlation between temperature, and amount of (real) butter required, is something that I'm sure many experienced peanut butter aficionados would recognise.

 

[Michi]

Butter belongs on a peanut butter sandwich in exactly the same way that pineapple on a pizza doesn't.

 

[panda]

Peanut butter smells like the stuff you dig out from under a toe nail. Nasty. Plus they a lot of the times contain aflatoxins from mold that is carcinogenic.

afla-deez nom nom carcinogens