Good butter ain't bland.

Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it's basically deep fried bread.

Homemade bread with just butter and salt is fucking awesome.

If you think butter is bland you may have broken tastebuds, or really shit butter. You know it's supposed to come from a cow?

Or a German to be honest. They eat just bread with butter. (no toast between!)

Literally any meat in a pan

Peanut butter is perfect and I'll die on that hill. My country's cheap combination of pulses and bread is much better than yours! That said you need unsweetened peanut butter and unsweetened bread, both of which can be difficult to find in the us