We are having a family breakfast and the debate came up. Do you butter the toast before putting on the peanut butter? Or do you just put the peanut butter straight on your toast?

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Bread is coarse and crumbly. Jam is gooey and wet. Surely butter makes it less likely for the jam to stay on. I always assumed it was just for flavour. My grandma used to do butter toast with just a sprinkle of sugar on top, so I never even considered that butter was there for a functional purpose.

    Butter on peanut butter is just weird, though, unless you’re buttering before toasting. But then peanut butter is a recent import here, so maybe it’s an old fashioned thing in the places that cultural imperialisted peanut puree unto us. Who’s to say.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I thought that as well, but I found that using butter on bread with homemade jam, the butter acts as a consistency to make it so it doesn’t slide all over the slice. when you do it without it just rolls