baffled

[deird1]

...do Americans not put butter on their sandwiches?

And why on earth not?

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[shehasathree]

Bc they usually put something else on instead? I actually have no idea and am just guessing.

I grew up in a household where we didn't eat white bread and sandwiches never had butter on them (unless Dad was making those particular sandwiches with a very thin layer of butter and honey in top), and found it weird and gross the way the canteen (not that I was allowed to eat from there) and other anglo families made sandwiches.

It's impossible to disentangle what was my mother's personal 'taste' from what she thought was healthy/unhealthy/financially prudent, especially since she always just presented whatever she thought was healthy and right as a Truth. It took me until I was... In my twenties to realise that I actually quite enjoyed butter/etc on toast, under the right circumstances. (Just in time to be not-able to eat it, bc: food intolerances. Yaaaay.)

[deird1]

What One's Family Does is so often our idea of What The World Does, isn't it? Hence my assumption that everyone, ever, butters their sandwiches...