Margarine or Butter.

[MWB]

Most people only use a very thin amount of marg or butter on bread before putting the filling in a sandwich.
So why do they bother when surely the filling would over power the taste of it?

[ummmm]

Depends on the filling. If it's something like a bacon sandwich then I think it needs butter. I've stopped using it with other fillings because like you said, it's pointless.

[mccfluff]

i always slather it on, unless of course its soemthing like egg or tuna mayo, not much point then really!

[emilia-faye]

Butter or marg is supposed to make it easier to eat than dry bread, so if your filling is a dry one, then it's for ease of chewing and swallowing.
A wet filling doesn't need butter.
:-)

[ethandron]

butter or marg was originally used to waterproof the bread so that the sandwich filling didn't make the bread go soggy, not to make the sandwich taste better.

[simoneparks]

This butter is the best: http://www.yeovalleyorganic.co.uk/

[Jugglering]

I find that a very thin layer of marg helps the cheese and/or salad to stick inside the sandwich and not try to escape. Obviously, fillings like egg mayo have enough *stickiness* to keep them contained by themselves.

[Panic Button]

They said on TV the other day that you cannot buy margarine in this country any more - no one sells it.

[Jugglering]

I think by marg I probably mean one of the butter substitutes like Utterly Butterly.. but you are right PB.. Marg has not been seen for yonks !

[sophie_1003]

It sticks the sandwich together!

[tamborine]

who says so.....I ladle on the butter, have a spoonful after making the sandwich and then lick the butter off the knife.

me - can't get enuf butter.

[Naomicorlett]

my Dad used to chill his butter so he could slice it and lay it on his bread...." it's not proper butter till you can see your teeth marks in it " . And I still have his Dripping bowl . He made a good age of 85 and was still climbing trees to work on them till he was 83. Bring on the saturated fats if thats what they do for you !!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Naomicorlett - please tell me you are from Leicester! I had a mate who swore blind by lard (not quite the same thing as butter, but hey) who sounds just like your dad.

[Word-Smith]

Hasn't the term "margarine" been banned by the authorities. There was something about it on a recent edition of QI. Isn't what we used to know as margarine now having to be referred by another, generic, term?

[Naomicorlett]

No . Dad was in Airforce so we moved around. He was born in Lambeth ( London ) and was one of 10 children. Never lost his love of cheap nourishing food tho'. Nearly a year since he died I looked after him until the end at home as he had lived next to us for 15 years and still miss him every day.