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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:19:19 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:22:54 -0700 (PDT),
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday, April 28, 2014 11:40:17 AM UTC-7, James Silverton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wonder, do people in other countries use mayonnaise instead of butter
>>>> in a sandwich? I don't happen to like it but others seem to.
>>>
>>>One of my aunts used to moisten sandwich bread with butter, which I
>>>thought was weird.
>>
>>LOL. This is kind of blowing my mind. Is it really uncommon in the U.S
>>to put butter on bread for a sandwich?? 99.999999% of sammies made in
>>Australia has butter on it. I honestly though that was the norm across
>>the world??
>
> I always butter the bread in my sandwiches. (I'm in Canada.) It
> doesn't "moisten" the bread - it's there to prevent the mayonnaise
> from making the bread soggy.
>
> I think most people in Canada do the same.

Yikes! Butter and Mayo? Now that is overkill!