mayo: the devil's condiment

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.

Yeah I have to go to Britain in a few weeks (shudder) and I'm looking to having like butter and fries sandwiches, hold the devil please

maybe they can curry that up for you

i'm guilty of eating cold foods, some of which may have included chilled sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, and soups. i blame it on university.

olive oil on bread is really good, as well. it depends on the olive oil, though.

xxxxp

Yeah I have to go to Britain in a few weeks (shudder) and I'm looking to having like butter and fries sandwiches, hold the devil please

― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, October 9, 2015 7:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who didn't eat a chip butty as a child

In the USA there are deviled eggs, a revealing name

here they are just œufs mayonnaise & I had with a group last week where like 50% of the people ordered this savagery. those people should be sent to The Hague

When I brought my mom some proper Spanish pimenton, her devilled egg game raised itself to become the envy of the other Minnesotans.

I toast a lot of the bread for my sandwiches, but that's because a) I keep this bread in the fridge so it doesn't spoil or get found by passing mice and b) I mostly eat these sandwiches:

BLT
warm chorizo, tomato and rocket (protip: scrape a clove of garlic across the toasted inside surface of your slices)
chicken and pesto with lettuce and mayo

I do not toast the bread for these sandwiches:

Ham and mustard
Parma ham/mozzarella, basil, tomato, red onion (here the bread is focaccia/ciabatta or a Portuguese roll, warmed up a bit)
Cheese and pickle (Americans: pickle is not PICKLES).

BRB just going for a chorizo/tomato/rocket on seeded sourdough toast.

(Americans: pickle is not PICKLES)

this is a koan

It is what it is

and parma ham is not parmesan cheese ham

AMERICANS

Olive oil with bread IS great especially with balsamic vinegar. But on a sandwich instead of butter? No.

Bread goes off quicker in the fridge. Science confirms this. You need A BREAD BIN. Made of melamine.

can we go back to "mousies"
how do they differ from sprinkles

incidentally, i don't care for cow's milk butter (or any other mammal, wiseass) and actively avoid most foods cooked or baked with excessive butter (exceptions for croissants). We're a coconut/olive oil house.

yeah well you have your lifestyle and whatever

it's not a health thing or a conscious choice, i just don't much care for the taste or texture of butter and it doesn't agree with me in excess.

i just don't much care for the taste or texture of butter

I have grave doubts that you are actually American

https://img1.etsystatic.com/028/0/7571421/il_214x170.658828247_8ufz.jpg

http://www.iowastatefair.org/upl/images/slideshow/4e4323df0b1c7.jpg

xp ... i think i know what color those glazes are

Olive oil with bread IS great especially with balsamic vinegar. But on a sandwich instead of butter? No.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, October 9, 2015 1:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich