mayo: the devil's condiment

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

I'd also like to point out that the English sandwiches I had had clearly been served to us directly from the refrigerator, causing them to separate into distinct, discrete, slippery slabs with a patina of butter on them so I would advise y'all to serve them at room temperature if structural integrity is really a reason why you are putting butter on them

I definitely remember making myself peanut butter and butter sandwiches as a kid. As a kid, whenever I ate bread it was always bread + butter + something else (jam, peanut butter, honey, nutella, etc.)

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

What I've seen or heard of "mousies" comes from this one Dutch-Scottish American family. They were referring to chocolate muisjes, yes, and this was his lunch:
http://www.deruijter.nl/media/5506/hagel_puur.png

so you guys put butter and sprinkles on white bread and call that a meal huh

yo they are not sprinkles they are "mousies"

actually that picture is indeed sprinkles, not muisjes. it's also possible that he called them "muisjes" and I just heard "mousies". I need to ask him. my history is but one account of the past, etc.

Bread, butter, and hagelslag is pretty delicious.

it is basically a more sophisticated chocolate croissant

butter on a peanut butter and jelly. people co-signing butter on a peanut butter and jelly. truly these are the last days, let the world be consumed by fire I welcome its end

I mean, I went through a phase as a child where I ate peanut butter and mustard sandwiches because my brother served me one in retaliation for pestering him into making me a sandwich and I enjoyed it out of spite but I'm not actually seeking that flavor profile out as a rational adult

i just pour the jelly right into my mouth

^^^ acceptable

Olive oil's pretty shit on sandwiches though.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, October 9, 2015 2:26 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is wrong with you

Yeah, classic muffaletta.

http://www.dishmaps.com/thumbs/muffaletta-sandwich-serious-eats_380.jpg

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

I'm so glad people covered this while I was away from this thread.

do we put butter and jam onto our toast, or just one or the other? a friend wonders -- he expresses sympathy for the idea of butter on a pb&j on these grounds. we have ejected him from the van and wish him well on his journey home

I'd never advocate butter on every sandwich. And anyone eating a chilled sandwich of any is a disgusting savage.

i would normally look askance at a buttered sandwich of any ordinary variety but i must admit that on the basis of discussions in these precincts i experimented with butter-and-peanut-butter on bread rather than just peanut butter, in the past year during periods of significant poverty when it seemed like it might be a good way to bolster an inadequate meal.

our british friends are still semi-incomprehensible when they eat toast sandwiches, but butter does sometimes seem like an effective ingredient in bread-based food.

on that note, it appears that all these years kraft has been gouging us for what was once a cost-cutting innovation

What makes it different: While it contains mayo's key ingredients (egg, soybean oil, vinegar, water), Miracle Whip sets itself apart with a sweet, spicy flavor that some folks prefer. First introduced during the Depression, when its cheaper price made it alluring to people who couldn't afford more highfalutin mayo, it's now caught up, costing about the same amount per ounce as the real thing. At any price, Miracle Whip still has legions of devotees: According to Kraft, it's currently among the grocery industry's 20 top-selling brands.