A post in the Sandwich thread says that sandwiches are made of meat between to slices of buttered bread. Comments on that should go into the other thread; but it made me curious:
Do you put butter or margarine on tuna sandwiches?
Sometimes I’ll put butter or margarine on tuna sandwiches. Usually it’s only when I use lettuce on them.
Oh my god no. That’s about my definition of “disgusting.”
How I learned to eat tuna:
Two slices of white toast, liberally buttered. 1/2 can of tuna, right out of the can – no mayo, no nothing. Slice diagonally and chow down. Mmmmmm!
I do prefer tuna salad now, but once in a while I still do the plain tuna on buttered toast. It’s comfort food to me.
I butter the bread so the tuna juice doesn’t soak in and make the bread soggy. Necessary only if the sandwich is going to be eaten later.
There should be a “Hells no” option
I would have picked that.
I’ll butter the outside if I’m making a grilled tuna sandwich, but otherwise, no. I don’t like non-melted butter on anything.
Toasted English muffin, butter, tuna. On untoasted bread: nope.
I wouldn’t, but my mother would. Hell … she put butter (or, worse, I can’t believe it’s not butter!!1! and yes, yes I can) on my peanut butter sandwiches when I was a kid. As if I wasn’t enough of a social pariah, I had to answer kids going, “Ewww… what’s that white stuff in your PB sammich?” (On a good day, the answer was “marshmallows!” On a bad day …)
So you can count my crazypants mother as one who believes that all sandwich recipes, regardless of filling, start with “Butter two slices of bread …” Make of that what you will.
For me, specifically in the context of tuna salad sandwiches, the butter seems like a redundancy of the mayo. I mean, it’s a fatty spread, right?
Leftover *broiled *tuna, melted butter, squeeze of lemon, dash of s & p, on a crusty baguette = good-ass sammich.
I’ve never put butter or margarine on any kind of sandwich and no one has ever served one to me that way.
I don’t know where these butter people come from, but the standard spread (if you want it) is mayonnaise.
Butter on tuna sammiches? YUCK!
Nor, incidentally, should cheese be on tuna. Cheese and fish do not go together. Not even boursin!
When you say “margarine”, do you include vegetable-oil-based spreads such as Flora, or similar brands? I mean, nobody has used actual margarine since about 1950, right?
I thought it was a British/European thing. I had an Irish aunt who insisted on putting butter or margarine in my PB&J.
It never even occurred to me to consider doing so.
I wouldn’t put it on a tuna sandwich but you guys are completely overreacting. It’s just butter, calm down. On a list of possible spreads, it probably has the least flavor and doesn’t really clash with anything.
I’ve never buttered the bread on any kind of sandwich.
Butter does not belong on an untoasted sandwich.
If it’s tuna salad with mayonnaise, butter is redundant.
What’s so disgusting about it? It’s quite good.
I don’t layer it on thick, and I use only a little mayo anyway. I’ll concede it IS disgusting when it’s more a slice than a smear though…