Margarine on sandwiches

Is this a holdover from the War?

Is this a holdover from the War?

Why? are you meaning instead of butter?

I prefer lower fat spread on my bread. I don't have anything like butter or marg on a bacon or sausage sandwich - or most other meats for that matter, never have, because my parents didn't, enough fat from the meat. That may well be something that happened because of the war.
Now, I generally don't put anything on the bread other than my sandwich filling, but that's down to looking to lose weight and cut down on fats.

Well I asked a friend why he put margarine on his sandwiches. He said it was something his mother did because of post-war austerity. It was originally an effort to "bulk up" a sandwich - using less expensive meat and salad. Apparently you could get more margarine coupons than butter. There is not a lot on the web about it....well nothing really pops up on the first page of google....

Finally got my husband weaned off the marg! Butter all the way - but on toast, not on a sandwich. I usually put mayo on sandwiches & even though he claimed not to like mayo in the beginning, he now prefers mayo on his sandwiches as well. Resistance is futile! 

To me it just moistens bread which might otherwise be too dry.

Mayonnaise?! Virtually unheard of in the 70's. We had salad cream!

Mayonnaise?! Virtually unheard of in the 70's. We had salad cream!

Salad cream...    Mayo has such a lovely taste & consistency, whereas salad cream is...well, salad cream. 

My ex-BF put it on and in everything and I couldn't understand it. He'd use it as a butter substitute in baking as well, to try and make it 'healthier'.  It may have less fat, but it's full of horrible, horrible processed things and it doesn't even taste that good. I read an article recently that said if it weren't for food dye, margarine would actually be grey in color. Give me butter, or give me death! 

Salad cream...    Mayo has such a lovely taste & consistency, whereas salad cream is...well, salad cream. 

DW likes salad cream. Love it on boiled egg sandwiches.

Anyway - just saying, we didn't have mayonnaise back in 70's, that was some posh stuff made fresh with eggs!

I read an article recently that said if it weren't for food dye, margarine would actually be grey in color.

Seriously?

DH does this with his sandwiches as well. He gets annoyed when I make sandwiches because I always forget the margarine. He also hates the way I say margarine. 

To me it just moistens bread which might otherwise be too dry.

and also, if you're going to eat a sandwich, you need a fat to 'seal' the bread, to stop the sandwich fillings making the bread soggy.

I think margarine/spread is disgusting, and for the last 15 years or so have used butter instead.  But for me, the real enemy is the bread... i prefer to drink my carbs! 

Margarine and salad cream are both 

I'm with NoseOverTail; I'd rather have fat than horrible industrial chemicals.

Salad cream reminds me of Miracle Whip, which I loathe.  When I was young, my parents bought Miracle Whip but called it mayonnaise, so for years I thought I hated mayo.  Then when I tried the real stuff... revelation. 

I don't use margarine either. Disgusting stuff!

I use mayo on most sandwiches but there are some which require butter instead - a good cheese and pickle sandwich, for instance. Putting mayo on that would be sacrilege! 

(and I secretly love salad cream)

Growing up, my mom always put margarine on a sandwich, then mayo. So it didn't seem to weird to me to see that in Britain, but it's not my favorite and I never did it once I started making my own sandwiches.

Tykeman, you don't put butter on a bacon sarnie?? That makes it extra delicious! 

No marg, no butter, mayo on a very few type of sandwiches.

Lettuce, then tomato, then meat means that the meat and lettuce form a barrier to the juicy tomato.  Problem solved.

Lettuce, then tomato, then meat means that the meat and lettuce form a barrier to the juicy tomato.  Problem solved.

But lettuce is watery (can get squidgy) too?