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What's your favourite sarnie/butty? (metro.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by Emperor to c/askuk

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The BLT has been crowned the UK’s favourite sandwich for 2024 in a recent poll, with 28% of respondents saying they were a fan.

The combination of bacon, lettuce and tomato between slices of bread can be traced back to an entry in Good Housekeeping Everyday cookbook in 1903.

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Britain's favourite sandwiches

BLT – 28%

Chicken salad – 24 %

Tuna mayonnaise/Fish finger – 23%

Cheese and pickle – 22%

Egg and cress – 19%

Coronation chicken – 18%

Prawn mayonnaise – 14%

Smoked salmon and cream cheese – 11%

Beef and horseradish – 10%

So what's your favourite sandwich?

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[–] Mex 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Every sandwich needs some lubrication, butter is a good choice , but not the only choice.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

My parents put butter on sandwiches that really don't need it and it drives me mad. Looks like I'm in the minority.

Out of all of the sandwiches on that list, they all already have some moisture without the need for butter:

BLT – Bacon grease/tomato juice & lettuce is mostly water
Chicken salad – usually means slathered in mayo
Tuna mayonnaise – mayonnaise & tuna is usually wet to begin with
Fish finger –ketchup (maybe also mayonnaise), or just malt vinegar
Cheese and pickle – if dry, you were stingy with the pickle
Egg and cress – just a wet mess already
Coronation chicken – in its own curry/creamy/mayo sauce
Prawn mayonnaise – mayonnaise
Smoked salmon and cream cheese – cream cheese
Beef and horseradish – horseradish

[–] Hossenfeffer 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps you, and others in this thread, misunderstand.

The point of butter, or mayonnaise, in most sandwiches is to protect the bread from sog. Any sarnie involving tomato, for example, that doesn't have a protective layer between the to's (I'm trying this out as a contraction of tomatoes) and the bread will end up with soggy, soggy bread. And no one wants soggy, soggy bread,

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Oh I totally get that. But where there's mayo, there's no need for butter. And if you slightly toast the bread first it will mostly hold off the sogginess. And it's only really a problem with basic sliced bread, some nice crusty or dense grainy bread will often hold up anyway.

To me, it's the equivalent of something like deep frying bacon. Probably still delicious but not really necessary.

I would like to get behind To's, but it's a bit too similar to toes. I like the idea of toes in my sandwiches less than butter.