I never put butter on my sandwiches either, although will sometimes just have bread and butter. I drove from San Francisco to New York many years ago, and survived really happily on just breakfast and then dinner. Breakfast in some diners was fantastic.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
In Leicester, and I think much more widely, an ice cream vendor was a hokey pokey man, and an ice cream an oakie. I mention this having read the link to the origin of calentita because hokey pokey might be derived from the Italian vendors’ cry of “Ecco un poco” (“here is a little” [free sample to try]).
When I spent a couple of weeks in the US (Utah colorado, Nevada and California) I ended up eating in the mexican restaurants, tasty food pretty cheap and always enough for breakfast and lunch the next day as well!
Like punkdoc I don't butter sandwiches, but I do eat bread and butter on it's own.
Being American with down home country roots I always find the British reaction to grits or biscuits and gravy amusing. Personally I love grits but would usually eat them with hot sauce, salt, and pepper at a minimum. Some people like them with cheese and even gravy.
Sandwiches are so varied that I don't think you can say there is really a rule about whether they have butter -- it depends on the other ingredients. Usually I use mayo on meat sandwiches instead of butter but my husband likes corned beef with butter and ketchup, so it changes according to what's in it.
I do think American cafés have more of a tendency to put a lot of different things in a sandwich, whereas British ones are often more plain. When I first bought a sandwich on a train here I was expecting the main filling plus things like a bit of lettuce, some kind of spread, maybe a dill pickle slice or two -- but I literally got sliced chicken on plain white bread! If there was any butter I didn't notice it.
As for portion sizes, I do kind of hope they go down a bit. It is true that most people will take home part of their meal to have for lunch the next day, but I also think that the portions are bonkers. Even at my most gluttonous I could rarely finish a whole meal in a typical restaurant.
I don't use butter on sandwiches - because I am tight and think why have the extra calories when you can barely taste it anyway? I went to the USA for the first time on honeymoon this year. I had a breakfast that consisted of 2 entire plates of food in Denny's! We had this really overweight waiter in one place and he started moaning about English portion sizes, saying "why are they so small?" I had to bite my tongue!
I don't put butter on sandwiches either. Prefer light mayo. Do love real butter on toast though. During a 5 day trip to New York I had the most amazing pastrami sandwich at Katz's Deli (the one featured in When Harry Met Sally). I found portion sizes huge but I have to say that the service and politeness of staff were second to none. Nothing was too much trouble in even the smallest bar, diner or restaurant. Loved most of the food I had but couldn't quite get to grips with syrup on bacon for breakfast.
In Florida, I had a peanut butter, jello and bacon sandwich... because I could. I've never wanted one since. In Washington DC, I encountered waffles, slathered with cinnamon. Bleurggg
In Washington state, we had Grits for the first and last time. We'd only popped over the border for Breakfast in America, but because we were brits, we had to pay immigration fees. Most expensive and awful breakfast ever
When I first visited the States, I struggled to find what we would call sandwiches, as burgers or chicken in buns seemed to be described as sandwiches. Apart from the dreadful peanut butter and ‘jelly’! On our last few trips, we discovered Panera Bread, a chain selling very tasty sandwiches. I regularly make pancakes which I serve with bacon, maple syrup and fresh strawberries, an homage to my favourite breakfast choice on holiday!
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I drove from San Francisco to New York many years ago, and survived really happily on just breakfast and then dinner. Breakfast in some diners was fantastic.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Sandwiches are so varied that I don't think you can say there is really a rule about whether they have butter -- it depends on the other ingredients. Usually I use mayo on meat sandwiches instead of butter but my husband likes corned beef with butter and ketchup, so it changes according to what's in it.
I do think American cafés have more of a tendency to put a lot of different things in a sandwich, whereas British ones are often more plain. When I first bought a sandwich on a train here I was expecting the main filling plus things like a bit of lettuce, some kind of spread, maybe a dill pickle slice or two -- but I literally got sliced chicken on plain white bread! If there was any butter I didn't notice it.
As for portion sizes, I do kind of hope they go down a bit. It is true that most people will take home part of their meal to have for lunch the next day, but I also think that the portions are bonkers. Even at my most gluttonous I could rarely finish a whole meal in a typical restaurant.
I went to the USA for the first time on honeymoon this year. I had a breakfast that consisted of 2 entire plates of food in Denny's!
We had this really overweight waiter in one place and he started moaning about English portion sizes, saying "why are they so small?" I had to bite my tongue!
In Washington DC, I encountered waffles, slathered with cinnamon. Bleurggg
We'd only popped over the border for Breakfast in America, but because we were brits, we had to pay immigration fees. Most expensive and awful breakfast ever
On our last few trips, we discovered Panera Bread, a chain selling very tasty sandwiches. I regularly make pancakes which I serve with bacon, maple syrup and fresh strawberries, an homage to my favourite breakfast choice on holiday!