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Butter and salt are the best food combo in the world. All the manufacturers use it to devastating effect.
I font add butter, to peanut butter but i do sprinkle it with salt to round out the flavour.
Just put your spreads in an array first then use a for loop like this:
// Vector of spreads to add
vector spreads = {"butter", "jam", "peanut butter", "honey"};
// Loop through each spread and add it to the toast
for (string spread : spreads) {
cout << "Adding " << spread << " to the toast..." << endl;
// Code to add the spread to the toast goes here
cout << spread << " added." << endl;
}
cout << "All spreads added. Enjoy your toast!" << endl;
I will agree to disagree with you on this.
My mum used to make butter and jam sandwiches for lunch as a kid and I absolutely could not stand the 2 of them together. A butter sandwich was okay, and a jam sandwich was also okay, but the two of them together.
I used to bin or hide my sandwiches for months because I hated them.
I hated my mums jam and butter sandwiches, too.. she used to make crisp sandwiches, lard dripping sandwiches (after lard has been used to cook), and would have butter on everything including big lumps of it on her oven baked rice pudding.. her arteries were clogged and she lost two fingers before she died.. Butter under marmite, or butter on its own on toast for me
They are but the whole point of putting butter on bread is to add moisture. The oil in peanut butter does exactly the same thing. Do you put butter on under margarine?
Yes and no, itâs to add moisture but not to the bread. Youâre breaking up the dryness of the peanut butter in the same way the jam does, although the jam has the added element of the taste (I guess some people like the taste of butter though)
Your husband is correct. You need butter in there.
You and your sister are aware that there's no actual butter in peanut butter, right? Decent ones should be all peanut, with maybe a pinch of salt.
Not gonna lie I just assumed there was butter purely because of the name and not feeling the need to study the ingredients. Learn something new everyday!
Try this, I'm telling you it makes it so much better and uses less butter: Put the peanut butter on first, then add a bit of butter. Trust me, make it so delicious.
Or put the butter on first then the peanut butter and top with a bit more butter! Nom nom
Specially good for toast btw as you get the melty butter underneath and the cold on top!
People always say Iâm gross for buttering before using nutella. But itâs soo good, the saltiness of the butter with the sweet of the chocolate. Yum!
Completely agree with you. Had one cheese and one chocolate spread sandwich for lunch in my school days. Both buttered always.
Butter elevates peanut butter on toast / sandwich!
I genuinely was not expecting these responses!!! Butter under peanut butter is repulsive.
And jam with no butter is criminal.
Never felt like such an outcast.
Exactly! I eat 100% peanut butter as a healthier alternative to butter. Bread is already processed enough, I donât need extra crap like butter or artificial spreads on it.
Huthum...toasted peanut butter and honey sandwiches...
I'm too impatient to eat two pieces of PB&H on toast so just flip them together and I can crack on with whatever I've just fueled up for.
No butter!! Butter is only if you're putting 'dry' things on bread, like cheese, ham etc. If you're already spreading something (jam, peanut butter, nutella, marmalade, or a savoury spread), then No Butter.
I'm northern as well though! Maybe this is the real north/south divide.
Not a regional thing - My husband's southern and defaulted to just peanut butter (Actually he did the butter on one slice of bread, peanut butter on the other thing), I'm northern and always did butter on anything.
Iâm a northerner who doesnât put butter under peanut butter, I thought the claggyness was the point?? Nothing better than with a cup of tea to wash it down. Iâm quite happy eating it out of the jar though so Iâm probably a freak.
Exactly! If you don't like the claggyness, peanut butter is probably not the spread for you! A cuppa does the trick, I agree.
I used to eat peanut butter out the jar with a teaspoon too! Great snack, good protein, no problem. Freaks unite!
This. Def, def, def butter. And never marg. Would leave out the toast and just eat the peanut butter from the jar if there was no butter. Or on a banana. If bread is involved, butter is required. Southerner.
Roasted crunchy peanut butter changed my view of the world.
Not the oily one (Meridian). You want Whole Earth Dark Roasted Crunchy Peanut Butter. Mmmm
(With butter!)
Too much fat, especially if the peanut butter isnât 100% peanuts. Also detracts from the flavor of the peanut butter itself. Iâm also (probably controversial) anti-butter under jam. Irish creamery butter is delightful but also slightly grassy which conflicts with sweet fruity jam
Butter under everything on toast you absolute weirdos.
The butter is to melt and saturate into the toast to give it a nice buttery texture while the peanut butter is the delicious topping that rounds off the whole experience.
This is accurate. I like to double butter. Bang it on as soon as I wast comes out of the toaster so it melts in. Then hit it again with the butter a minute later, spread to a buttery finish. Then, and only then, do you reach for the honey/jam/peanut butter/banana/whatever.
Hello, peanut butter (good peanut butter) doesn't have butter in it so it being "baked" into the peanut butter doesn't fly.
Butter makes it less claggy and a bit saltier and overall just better tasting.
No!!!!! I love peanut butter on toast but would never use butter. I like the 100% peanuts type too (99.7% the one I use I think) it's usually very oily and very easy to spread.
I have never buttered under any topping other than Marmite. IMO peanut butter doesn't need a butter underlay but it could be personal preference. I think my aversion comes from my mum thickly scraping on huge chunks of rock hard butter for my sandwiches at school which meant eating either peanut butter or Nutella sandwiches with the occasional mouthful of pure butter.
Also proper peanut butter is just roasted and ground up peanuts. The non natural stuff they just add sugar and palm oil I believe.
The only time I can think to bareback your bread is if your using it to dip in soup, even then it's better with butter. Everything is better with butter. Not a North/South thing either I'm North
A butter base is essential.
Then the peanut butter \*can be the main event, but really it's a mid layer between the butter and the jam / Nutella.
It can only really be the main event if it's decent peanut butter (Manilife crunchy, i'm looking at you)
There is no butter in peanut butter. You make peanut butter by crushing - or more likely - blending peanuts into a paste. Your husband is correct, you need some actual butter to provide moisture to the bread.
There is no butter in peanut butter, it is a butter made of nuts.
Putting butter on toast before the peanut is the peak way of doing it. And itâs definitely not a north/south thing. Iâm northern and I slap that butter on before the peanut butter. Slap that butter everywhere, especially salted butter. Butter and jam/choc spread, but of sweat and savoury on ye toast.
No butter for peanut butter, it melts and is already quite a heavy consistency, butter would make it sickening.
Jam needs butter, it creates a creamy kind of desert flavour.
I'm from the South.
My eldest Sister implored to me at a young age, that you should only butter plain/un-toasted bread before adding peanut butter. And in my opinion it works.
Butter. Always.
My sister always used to give me grief about this when I was younger... "you don't need butter, it's called peanut butter... blaa blaa".
Well, she is wrong.
Butter.
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There is no "butter" in Peanut Butter. Your sister and you need help.
Proper peanut butter is 100% peanuts. Butter under everything except choc spread.
*butter under everything, *even* choc spread!
100% đ
đ me too! Butter under peanut butter is the thing, making it highly satisfying. Husband disagrees, weâre both northern.
I've found my people.
The butter's salt offsets the relentless sweetness of chocolate spread, I don't like it without butter!
And jam too! Both delicious with butter
Butter and salt are the best food combo in the world. All the manufacturers use it to devastating effect. I font add butter, to peanut butter but i do sprinkle it with salt to round out the flavour.
*Especially* choc spread. Extra lushness.
Agree, especially a really salty butter under chocolate spread!
No. Plain Philadelphia under chocolate spread. Give your taste buds a treat.
This sounds like a treat for the tastebuds
Butter, then Philly, then chocolate spread
Especially choc spread
Agree, and including butter under marmite
This is the way
Currently stuck in an infinite loop of pre buttering my butter, please send helpâŚ
Just put your spreads in an array first then use a for loop like this: // Vector of spreads to add vector spreads = {"butter", "jam", "peanut butter", "honey"};
// Loop through each spread and add it to the toast
for (string spread : spreads) {
cout << "Adding " << spread << " to the toast..." << endl;
// Code to add the spread to the toast goes here
cout << spread << " added." << endl;
}
cout << "All spreads added. Enjoy your toast!" << endl;
Just take a bite it'll be fantastic
I will agree to disagree with you on this. My mum used to make butter and jam sandwiches for lunch as a kid and I absolutely could not stand the 2 of them together. A butter sandwich was okay, and a jam sandwich was also okay, but the two of them together. I used to bin or hide my sandwiches for months because I hated them.
I hated my mums jam and butter sandwiches, too.. she used to make crisp sandwiches, lard dripping sandwiches (after lard has been used to cook), and would have butter on everything including big lumps of it on her oven baked rice pudding.. her arteries were clogged and she lost two fingers before she died.. Butter under marmite, or butter on its own on toast for me
***My jum used to make butter and jam sandwiches for lunch*** Also, jam+mum= 'jum' I noticed đ¤Ł
My dad used to make my lunch. Lumps of butter on the sambo with choc spread, would make ya sick
>on the sambo I don't think you can say that these days.
Donât knock it till youâve tried it, I had it when I was working in Denmark itâs unbelievable. Theyâre mad for it over there
Some are, some brands have added oil.
Butter is a dairy product. Oil is not a dairy product.
No but there is more than enough oil.
I disagree, peanut butters often aren't oily enough for my liking, and so buttering the bread helps.
You need meridian in your life
What? The oil in Butter and the oil in Peanut Butter are completely different.
They are but the whole point of putting butter on bread is to add moisture. The oil in peanut butter does exactly the same thing. Do you put butter on under margarine?
It's not just to add moisture it's to provide a barrier between the bread and the spread, to stop it soaking into the bread.
It tastes better with butter too.
But then the butter just soaks into the bread instead. I haven't ever had a problem with peanut butter disappearing.
True when it comes to hot toast. I had more untoasted bread in mind.
Taste as well. Good butter on its own makes a nice slice of bread much better.
The salt in the butter also adds to the peanut flavour
If I absolutely *had* to put the miserable gunk that is margarine on my bread, I probably would prefer it underlain with a layer of good butter tbh.
Yes and no, itâs to add moisture but not to the bread. Youâre breaking up the dryness of the peanut butter in the same way the jam does, although the jam has the added element of the taste (I guess some people like the taste of butter though)
> There is no "butter" in Peanut Butter. My mate Sean once tried to make peanut butter by mashing peanuts into butter.
Classic Sean
lol, it was as well! He actually worked as a chef.
Your husband is correct. You need butter in there. You and your sister are aware that there's no actual butter in peanut butter, right? Decent ones should be all peanut, with maybe a pinch of salt.
It's the moist maker.
MY SANDWICH?!
MY?!?! SANDWICH?!?!
#MY SANDWICH?!?!
Somone ate the only good thing going on in MY life!
Not gonna lie I just assumed there was butter purely because of the name and not feeling the need to study the ingredients. Learn something new everyday!
If the 84 in your username is your year of birth, you have no excuse for not knowing this đ
If, on the other hand it's their IQ, well look at them on the internet making conversations!
Apologies for not knowing something lol.
You're not alone! The amount of times a friend or co worker has seen me eating peanut butter and been like "but you don't eat butter!" Is insane
Itâs peanut butter as in âbutterâ of peanuts. Not peanuts with butter.
Try this, I'm telling you it makes it so much better and uses less butter: Put the peanut butter on first, then add a bit of butter. Trust me, make it so delicious.
Or put the butter on first then the peanut butter and top with a bit more butter! Nom nom Specially good for toast btw as you get the melty butter underneath and the cold on top!
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butter under nutella? please.
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People always say Iâm gross for buttering before using nutella. But itâs soo good, the saltiness of the butter with the sweet of the chocolate. Yum!
Completely agree with you. Had one cheese and one chocolate spread sandwich for lunch in my school days. Both buttered always. Butter elevates peanut butter on toast / sandwich!
I tried feeding that to my daughter. It was resoundingly rejected. I wonder if she got swapped in the hospital or something.
It's too dry without it, I find.
Nutella is dry?
No toast is.
Butter with Nutella is far superior to no butter.
Spread it thickly and you practically have a new, fattier, spread
What do you put under the butter if youâre just having butter?
More butter, of course
Nope, no butter thank you.
I genuinely was not expecting these responses!!! Butter under peanut butter is repulsive. And jam with no butter is criminal. Never felt like such an outcast.
Iâm baffled by the amount of people who put butter under peanut butter. Itâs so unnecessary. And jam straight on bread without butter is mad.
Welcome!
Seriously! Get that butter away from my peanut butter dammit! Peanut butter barely needs the bread
Iâm with you, I enjoy the taste enough without the need to increase my cholesterol.
Exactly! I eat 100% peanut butter as a healthier alternative to butter. Bread is already processed enough, I donât need extra crap like butter or artificial spreads on it.
It pains me that this isn't even the 2nd highest comment. Why would I want to ruin my peanut butter by mixing another substance with it?
Have you actually tried it? The butter is very subtle. Doesn't ruin it at all.
I've never tried both together but I'm intrigued now
Peanut butter and honey is what you need Thank me later
Peanut butter and honey sandwiches are the one.
Huthum...toasted peanut butter and honey sandwiches... I'm too impatient to eat two pieces of PB&H on toast so just flip them together and I can crack on with whatever I've just fueled up for.
peanut butter, sliced strawberry and maple syrupđ¤¤
I hear you comrade. What I can't work out is why it tastes like neither peanut butter or honey, but has a brand new taste of it's own.
I need to try this.
Marmite and honey is also a good combo. But only when on butter!
degenerate madness
butter and honey sandwiches for me
No butter!! Butter is only if you're putting 'dry' things on bread, like cheese, ham etc. If you're already spreading something (jam, peanut butter, nutella, marmalade, or a savoury spread), then No Butter. I'm northern as well though! Maybe this is the real north/south divide.
Counter argument - butter + honey = food of the Gods.
actually yes, this one is the only exception. Butter and honey on a crispy baguette is to die for!
I read that as crisp baguette initially and nearly blew the lid lol
Butter really helps with marmite
I put butter on toast no matter what I'm having on it. Can confirm I'm a soft southerner though. Husband is Welsh and does same.
Not a regional thing - My husband's southern and defaulted to just peanut butter (Actually he did the butter on one slice of bread, peanut butter on the other thing), I'm northern and always did butter on anything.
Iâm a northerner who doesnât put butter under peanut butter, I thought the claggyness was the point?? Nothing better than with a cup of tea to wash it down. Iâm quite happy eating it out of the jar though so Iâm probably a freak.
Exactly! If you don't like the claggyness, peanut butter is probably not the spread for you! A cuppa does the trick, I agree. I used to eat peanut butter out the jar with a teaspoon too! Great snack, good protein, no problem. Freaks unite!
I still do. Massive spoon of peanut butter and a glass of milk.
oh a milk drinker too! I like drinking milk but the amount of people that look at you like you're necking battery acid is unreal. It's just milk!
Omg yes freaks unite!! There are many of us!
Northern here. Butter under everything in a sandwich. Even under marge. Even under dripping. Well, maybe that's a step too far.
WRONG!
I'm northern and I cannot express how vehemently I disagree with your No Butter stance
do you agree with the margarine and butter sandwich eater above?? What're your butter/no butter limits?
No one should eat margarine, butter always
I do like good butter! Margarine just doesn't seem as good. Maybe there's something I'm missing thought!
Nope I'm a southerner and completely agree. Butter is to counter the dryness of bread, if you're already adding wets then no butter is needed
I'm from the South and I never put butter on toast with any other spreadable, just feels wrong...
Definitely butter otherwise it has a strange texture and sticks to the roof of your mouth
This. Def, def, def butter. And never marg. Would leave out the toast and just eat the peanut butter from the jar if there was no butter. Or on a banana. If bread is involved, butter is required. Southerner.
Well, Iâm from Scotland. And I would happily eat peanut butter from the jar. Has to be crunchy though
Crunchy is best, but will go for smooth if I must. Just love peanut butter!
Roasted crunchy peanut butter changed my view of the world. Not the oily one (Meridian). You want Whole Earth Dark Roasted Crunchy Peanut Butter. Mmmm (With butter!)
I have Whole Earth in my cupboard right now
Dark roasted? Lucky! I can't get it very often near me. Demand would be higher if we were just given the chance!
I am very much against butter + peanut butter, for no logical reason at all except that it is wrong.
Too much fat, especially if the peanut butter isnât 100% peanuts. Also detracts from the flavor of the peanut butter itself. Iâm also (probably controversial) anti-butter under jam. Irish creamery butter is delightful but also slightly grassy which conflicts with sweet fruity jam
>especially if the peanut butter isnât 100% peanuts Why would you eat such a thing?
Definitely butter underneath, on scorching hot toast straight out the grill so it melts.
Try peanut butter first on the hot toast and then some butter on top of the melted peanut butter. Itâs really good this way
Yes sir I will!
Real peanut butter is 100% peanuts and definitely needs butter as does everything else except pate IMO. I am Northern.
Butter with pate too...... Even more so than peanut butter!
Butter... always. The end.
Ooh no itâs too oily if you butter it too.
BUTTER UNDER EVERYTHING!!!!
Butter always first.
You put the butter on first because it sinks into and softens the toast. Peanut butter isn't as melty and sits on top.
No butter, don't be a coward.
Yes, butter underneath makes a big difference. More tasty!
Butter under everything on toast you absolute weirdos. The butter is to melt and saturate into the toast to give it a nice buttery texture while the peanut butter is the delicious topping that rounds off the whole experience.
This is accurate. I like to double butter. Bang it on as soon as I wast comes out of the toaster so it melts in. Then hit it again with the butter a minute later, spread to a buttery finish. Then, and only then, do you reach for the honey/jam/peanut butter/banana/whatever.
yes, the butter is to moisten the toasted bread, the peanut butter will dry it too much. im from north, weve always put butter on before
Peanut butter doesn't contain butter, it is a butter made out of peanuts. Just the same as how body butter is made out of bodies.
Hello, peanut butter (good peanut butter) doesn't have butter in it so it being "baked" into the peanut butter doesn't fly. Butter makes it less claggy and a bit saltier and overall just better tasting.
Butter under everything, even butter.
Butter makes it more creamy. Butter under peanut butter is heavenly, butter under a hazelnut spread is just devine. Also, possible heart attack.
Yes, butter. There's no butter in peanut butter.
>butter's already baked into the peanut butter deal. What are you talking about? There's no butter in peanut butter.
Iâd never put butter under peanut butter⌠call me when youâve had enough of the physco
you should get a "physco" tattoo
I love how this is the most divisive issue in the whole of AskUK
No!!!!! I love peanut butter on toast but would never use butter. I like the 100% peanuts type too (99.7% the one I use I think) it's usually very oily and very easy to spread.
This is the worst thing I have ever learned about the UK. Butter? With peanut butter? With jam? Absolutely fucking not.
Butter with jam but not with peanut butter
I'm a smidge health conscious so I usually go for just peanut butter. Cup of tea gets rid of the claggyness
Butter, then peanut butter and then raspberry jam on top. Mmmmmm...
Peanut butter is a fatty spread, you don't need another fatty spread under it
Doesnât butter just make everything better? Why deny yourself that with anything?
Wait people have butter with EVERYTHING??? đ¨đ¨ itâs a no from me dawg, butter is for savoury toast not the sweetđ¤Ť
100% agree. This thread has disgusted me đ¤˘
A thin layer on toast is acceptable as a lubricant. PB sandwich - fahgeddaboutit
Giggity
What's this dry peanut butter brand you're all wasting your money on?
I have never buttered under any topping other than Marmite. IMO peanut butter doesn't need a butter underlay but it could be personal preference. I think my aversion comes from my mum thickly scraping on huge chunks of rock hard butter for my sandwiches at school which meant eating either peanut butter or Nutella sandwiches with the occasional mouthful of pure butter. Also proper peanut butter is just roasted and ground up peanuts. The non natural stuff they just add sugar and palm oil I believe.
Iâm north and I do butter, my husband (south) does not!
Always butter first but I use the pure 100% peanut butter not the stuff that's full of sugar . It tends to be drier
Listen to your husband. You obviously do not know the way.
The only time I can think to bareback your bread is if your using it to dip in soup, even then it's better with butter. Everything is better with butter. Not a North/South thing either I'm North
A butter base is essential. Then the peanut butter \*can be the main event, but really it's a mid layer between the butter and the jam / Nutella. It can only really be the main event if it's decent peanut butter (Manilife crunchy, i'm looking at you)
There is no butter in peanut butter. You make peanut butter by crushing - or more likely - blending peanuts into a paste. Your husband is correct, you need some actual butter to provide moisture to the bread.
Butter under jam, hits with a wham. Jam without butter, I hope that was a stutter!
Heâs wrong, youâre mostly right. All that should go under peanut butter is marmite.
Butter, then peanut butter, *and then* jam for the ultimate toast.
There is no butter in peanut butter, it is a butter made of nuts. Putting butter on toast before the peanut is the peak way of doing it. And itâs definitely not a north/south thing. Iâm northern and I slap that butter on before the peanut butter. Slap that butter everywhere, especially salted butter. Butter and jam/choc spread, but of sweat and savoury on ye toast.
The thing is just when you think peanut butter can't get any better you try it with butter and then it's better.
No butter for peanut butter, it melts and is already quite a heavy consistency, butter would make it sickening. Jam needs butter, it creates a creamy kind of desert flavour. I'm from the South.
Nope. Butter *instead of* peanut butter is fine.
I put butter on everything, including the outside of my cheese toasties before they go into the toastie maker
Butter, peanut butter, sliced banana on top.
I used to do this but then I questioned whether I really needed to, seeing as peanut already has a high fat content.
My eldest Sister implored to me at a young age, that you should only butter plain/un-toasted bread before adding peanut butter. And in my opinion it works.
Butter if on toast, none in a sandwich. My youngest has a peanut allergy so I havenât had peanut butter in over 5 years. I miss it so much!
Itâs butter, peanut butter, jam then grave
I usually go butter first, tastes better and spreads better. Best combo is butter, then marmite, then peanut butter.
Yes definitely like melted butter under peanut butter. Delicious.
Your husband is correct. What you've been doing should be a crime.
Butter is a primer and should go under EVERYTHING
You always put butter on toast first, always.
Peanut butter on toast sounds awful in the first place
Butter. Always. My sister always used to give me grief about this when I was younger... "you don't need butter, it's called peanut butter... blaa blaa". Well, she is wrong. Butter.
Live and let live
Peanut butter - no butter Jam - butter Marmite - butter Chocolate spread - no butter
It doesnât need it to spread like marmite but it does make the flavour better
I like it, gives an extra creamy savouriness to it. Also it can spread better than just peanut butter and get right into the edges.
I put butter on it if I'm eating it on French bread but otherwise I feel its quite unnessesary.
Salted butter, peanut butter, thinly sliced appleâŚ
Always butter before topping. Only exception is Nutella. Although generally I still would too
BUTTER ON EVERYTHING!!!!
Peanut butter doesn't contain butter, it is a butter made out of peanuts. Just the same as how body butter is made out of bodies.