mayo: the devil's condiment

LOOOOOL Dan, nobody likes to wind up wearing components of the sandwich (or dealing with over-dry bread).

IN OTHER NEWS are we all aware that 'mayo' is what UK teens and young adults of colour call the clueless white ppl of their acquaintance?

oh dear

jambon beurre ftw

wtf do you use butter for?!

If not on bread?!

There are uses for butter beyond "putting it on bread", see for example baking and sauteing.

Butter on bread is obviously a net good but if that's your only use case...

Maria Schneider to thread

pretty sure 2/3 of french cooking is "put wine and butter in a cooking vessel, emulsify a little, add other stuff"

put me in the "I know & understand that some people butter their sandwiches but it has always struck me as weird and unpleasant and please hold the butter on mine" camp

like when you buy a cheese sandwich from the roadside gas station in England and you see they have put butter on it you think 'that'd be cool if I were going to grill this sandwich, but seeing as this is a roadside station, there is no earthly reason for this sandwich to have butter on it'

how else is the cheese going to stick to the bread

There is no butter on service station sandwiches. It is margarine.

It's never really occurred to me to treat a sandwich like a discrete, inviolable unit of food. Sometimes they come apart, and that's okay! Sometimes all the cheese and toppings come off your pizza but it's not like I'm looking for an adhesive sauce to really nail those toppings and cheese to the crust. Sometimes a taco falls apart, I don't need to drown it in sour cream* to make the shell bits stick together. This seems like a minor problem at best in the food spectrum, certainly not one that justifies putting mayo on a burger

* not mayo, you sick bastards

Thread inspired a tomato sandwich for tonight's dinner.

On a literary note, George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier speaks of poor families whose diet consists mainly of "bread-and-marg". He was an accurate observer and careful writer, and so didn't call it "bread and butter".

Sometimes a taco falls apart, I don't need to drown it in sour cream* to make the shell bits stick together.

I suspect if we stick around long enough here we will learn some hard hard truths about London tacos

djp otm, especially with regard to this abomination
http://conversation.which.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mayo-and-chips-zoom.jpg

there are two jars of mayonnaise on the table. just in case

idk if my conception of how to do tacos right necessarily involves the phrase "shell bits" but happy to be schooled by america here

put some mustard on that mayo, and i'm set. so good

xxp

wtf do you use butter for?!

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, October 8, 2015 1:21 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If not on bread?!

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, October 8, 2015 1:21 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SANDWICH != BREAD

y know this sandwich just isn't creamy or greasy enough

Mayo and ketchup sandwich

mayo + burger + egg thats a dang fine burger

Question for anti-mayo partisans: what do you think "special sauce" is?

Goat semen

what do i think it is?

it sucks too if that's what you're getting at

Man U ain't fit 2 buttchug a big mac

Wait, people put butter in their sandwiches? This thread took a weird turn.

Are we talking like a turkey sandwich with some lettuce and tomato and then a bunch of butter?

Or maybe like tuna salad with pickles and some hard boiled egg and a bunch of butter?

Good lord, what is this world coming to?

Are we talking like a turkey sandwich with some lettuce and tomato and then a bunch of butter?

this is what i had. it wasn't THAT bad, really, i was mostly just taken aback

Question for anti-mayo partisans: what do you think "special sauce" is?

― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Thursday, October 8, 2015 10:08 PM (15 minutes ago)

mayo partisan uses mcdonalds as an example of why mayo is great. mayo haters rest their case

mayo haters rest their case

But...but...if they win their case, will mayo...just... disappear?!

My mother used to make PB&J sandwiches by buttering (OK, margerining) the bread first. I had totally forgotten about that until adulthood, and when I remembered it struck me as really weird.

brimstead and kevin wildly otm, if you think mayo haters are running around asking for the special sauce you are blinkered. special sauce is an attempt to sneak mayo past people who walk the righteous path and we are having none of it

My best friend ate a butter and mousies sandwich almost every day in high school

"A bunch" of butter? I'm not talking about an inch thick slice you disgusting savages. Just a thin spreading. Because, you know, protein, carbs, and fat together is a delicious and time-honoured combination. Unless, like mayo seems to be, butter is some fucked-up thing in the states that's unrecognisable to us in the UK.

I've seen ads for deep-fried butter sticks. I know the U.S. is disgusting.

Also only the most depraved of disgusting savages touches margarine, which is literally plastic and does not go off.

you don't know anything about us

You can't go on
Thinkin...nothings wrong
Who's gonna spread yr marg
Tonite

When I thought life had some meaning
Then I thought I had some choice
(I was running blind)
And I made some value judgments
In a self-important voice
(I was outa line)
But then absurdity came over me
And I longed to lose control
(into no mind)
Oh all I ever wanted
Was just to eat chili mayo

I was on the "butter on a sandwich wtf" thing until I moved to France and had a few exemplars, and salami + cornichons on a buttered baguette is a fav now.

I went to an alsacian sandwich shop last week and all their premade sandwiches had the devil's condiment (fun fact: "mayonnaise" in French means "the devil's condiment") but they were willing to go back to the kitchen and make me a chicken sandwich without it, and it wasn't that great after waiting 10 mins (wtf). I think they were trying to pressure me into taking the devil's hand.

get behind me 'satian

Olive oil, used in the preparation of many meals, was the principal source of fat. It also served in religious rituals and was applied to the body after exercise. The importance of olives to Attica is indicated by the fact that the goddess Athena caused an olive tree to spring up miraculously on the Acropolis when she was competing with Poseidon for the guardianship of the land. The use of butter was regarded as a mark of the barbarian.

Olive oil's pretty shit on sandwiches though.

It's a baguette, with Brie and butter

My best friend ate a butter and mousies sandwich almost every day in high school

Is "mousies" American for the Dutch muisjes and if so is the word (or indeed the condiment) common over there?

http://www.deondernemer.nl/UserFiles/image/2013/201311/20131106/beschuitmetmuisjes.kantenklaar.ondernemen.innovatie.425.jpg

I ask bcz I have wondered what the English for this is in the past.

Also only the most depraved of disgusting savages touches margarine, which is literally plastic and does not go off.

If it does not go off why does Flora have a use-by of about six weeks after you buy it? I do not buy it myself because I mainly use butter in cooking and I'm never sure whether margarine is safe to heat, but the ex used to buy it, use it approx once, throw the 99% full tub out six weeks later, repeat.

I spent several years of my childhood in Utah. Not, like SLC Utah, but Small Town Utah.

It was pretty great to be a kid Small Town Utah because there are a LOT of other kids to play with when your neighbors all had 6+ kids. And no one can helicopter parent that many kids, so we all got to run around with tons of freedom and unstructured free time blah blah blah.

In Small Town Utah, lunch will be fed to you by whoever's mom happened to be closest at lunchtime. Like, if you're playing in Sally and Stacia and Sara an Stephen and Stephanie and Sam's backyard, then their mom Sister Rhonda would dole out the sandwiches.

In Small Town Utah, PB&J was the sandwich of choice in such cases.

In Small Town Utah, you will find FUCKING BUTTER on your PB&J.

As you should.

How long can they butter our sandwiches
While we stand aside and look

peanut butter already has BUTTER in the name
don't add more BUTTER to what is already BUTTER

I mean I can understand the butter argument for certain varieties of meat or curry salad sandwiches; I've had that before (in England obv) and it was delicious, if somewhat obvious in its butteriness. However no one needs to add butter to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; at that point you might as well just start throwing random things in a blender and shoveling the resulting paste into your mouth with a big-ass ladle