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Author: ambrosen
Why don't Americans put butter on their sandwiches? When American in Paris Amanda Rollins posted a TikTok about a jambon beurre sandwich, there was a lot of mutual incomprehension on both sides of the Atlantic as to whether it's normal to assume there will be butter in a sandwich — for the Europeans, absolutely de rigeur; for the North Americans, odd and greasy. When The Guardian's Arma Mahdawi realised her American wife was on Team Mayo she wrote the linked op-ed (and took a regrettable swipe at American butter, sadly).