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Original poster

Flora or Clover, which name is the butter one?!

42 replies

Redballoonfan · 12/09/2012 07:12

We like both, not a wind up honestly!

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chocolatecheesecake · 12/09/2012 07:36

Clover.

Children will make nicknames/tease about anything. If not the name, then appearance etc

Vagaceratops · 12/09/2012 07:34

Just call her Marg.

mrsconfuseddotcom · 12/09/2012 07:29

Or Marmite, Jam, Peanut Butter, Nutella...

You're mad. Your daughter will endure a childhood of teasing. Don't be surprised if you end up in a horrible care home.

pictish · 12/09/2012 07:27

Flora was my late mother's name and I think it's beautiful.
I wanted to call dd after her but dh vetoed it.

So I say Flora - Clover is a cow's name. x

LostItYearsAgo · 12/09/2012 07:27

Both make me think of rabbits. Sorry

littlebluechair · 12/09/2012 07:25

They are both well known spreads, I think you'd be mad to choose them! But Flora is at least a human name, not a bovine one.

What about Olivio, Stork, Utterly, Benecol as alternatives?

onyx72 · 12/09/2012 07:25

They're both utterly butterly Grin but I prefer Flora

Kveta · 12/09/2012 07:25

Floras may end up nicknamed Clover anyway not speaking from bitter experience at all

lots of margarine jokes as a child followed by 'spreads well' as a teen.

RustyBear · 12/09/2012 07:24

I didn't think of Clover when naming DD, but if I had I might well have gone for it (though DH might have taken a bit more persuading). I loved it when I was a child reading the Katy books.

Ilovedaintynuts · 12/09/2012 07:23

Clover is the name of a cow. Mooooooooooooooooooooo.

Both are fridge items that spread easily on bread/toast.

Flora is pretty but does allow for some teasing/jokes.

HiHowAreYou · 12/09/2012 07:22

As a name I mean! Not as a spread!

HiHowAreYou · 12/09/2012 07:21

Clover is a hundred times nicer than Flora.

RustyBear · 12/09/2012 07:20

Clover -it's 27% buttermilk, while Flora is mostly Plant sterols with only a tiny bit of buttermilk.

Clover is a much nicer baby name too.

ithaka · 12/09/2012 07:20

Flora was a lovely, traditional Scottish name long before it was associated with a margarine.

Sorry, I think of Clover as a cow's name.

EdithWeston · 12/09/2012 07:18

Well both spread easily (and for that reason can be hard to live with in the teen years). I would go for Clover, as it's the newer brand so at least anyone who makes a pervy remark will be a similar age, not one of her friends' Dads.

SpottyTeacakes · 12/09/2012 07:15

Go for Flora. Clover is the name of a cow.

BobbysBeardOfWonder · 12/09/2012 07:15

Love Flora. Clover to me = butter Grin

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