# Butter on tuna sandwiches **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861 "2010-12-30T19:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/1 "2010-12-30T19:50:55Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/2 "2010-12-30T19:52:45Z")
Sometimes I’ll put butter or margarine on tuna sandwiches. Usually it’s only when I use lettuce on them. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/3 "2010-12-30T19:53:09Z")
Oh my god no. That’s about my definition of “disgusting.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/4 "2010-12-30T19:57:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/5 "2010-12-30T20:02:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/6 "2010-12-30T20:08:26Z")
There should be a “Hells no” option I would have picked that. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/7 "2010-12-30T20:24:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/8 "2010-12-30T20:30:01Z")
Toasted English muffin, butter, tuna. On untoasted bread: nope. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/9 "2010-12-30T21:23:31Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/10 "2010-12-30T21:34:22Z")
Leftover \*broiled \*tuna, _melted_ butter, squeeze of lemon, dash of s & p, on a crusty baguette = good-ass sammich. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/11 "2010-12-30T21:34:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/12 "2010-12-30T22:53:20Z")
Butter on tuna sammiches? YUCK! Nor, incidentally, should cheese be on tuna. Cheese and fish do not go together. Not even boursin! ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/13 "2010-12-30T23:21:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/14 "2010-12-31T00:09:23Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I don’t know where these butter people come from I thought it was a British/European thing. I had an Irish aunt who insisted on putting butter or margarine in my PB&J. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/15 "2010-12-31T00:11:01Z")
It never even occurred to me to consider doing so. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/16 "2010-12-31T00:13:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/17 "2010-12-31T00:59:50Z")
I’ve never buttered the bread on any kind of sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/18 "2010-12-31T01:15:42Z")
Butter does not belong on an untoasted sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/19 "2010-12-31T01:20:31Z")
If it’s tuna salad with mayonnaise, butter is redundant. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861/20 "2010-12-31T01:41:59Z")
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… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-on-tuna-sandwiches/565861.md?page=2)