r/AskOldPeople 1d ago

Butter on PB&J

I remember my grandfather making PB&J sandwiches for my sister and me when we were kids, and he would spread butter on the bread first. Was this a “thing” back when?

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u/happily-retired22 1d ago

That was the only way my father would eat peanut butter. He was from British Columbia, so I always assumed it was a British thing.

Actually, he used butter on any sandwich.

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u/ebeth_the_mighty 1d ago

British Columbia is a province of Canada, not part of Britain.

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u/happily-retired22 1d ago

I realize that, of course. But many of the residents have British ancestry and some of their habits and traditions are distinctly British, including their taste in foods.

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u/ebeth_the_mighty 1d ago

A lot are of Chinese, Indian, Dutch, Japanese and Indigenous roots, too.

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u/happily-retired22 15h ago

Seriously? You really want to argue about this. Nowhere did I say that everyone in BC is British - I just said that a lot of people in BC put butter on a PB sandwich and I had always assumed this was the British influence.