AIBU re eating walnuts and butter

[WildebeestH]

The man next to me on the train is eating walnuts by using them to scoop butter from a whole block which he has just opened. AIBU to find this odd?

Ketogenic diet for epilepsy?

He's probably writing his own thread about the strange woman next to him who's sniffing him and looking longingly at his butter.

On a train! People used to just read the paper in my train riding days.

Nuts fried in butter and sprinkled with sugar are nice. But raw? - no way.

If he smells of coconut, maybe he uses coconut oil as a moisturiser or a hair treatment.

I'd have to ask him about the food and scrounge a solo walnut, don't like the other stuff.

This is why I don't use public transport.

It's not so much what he's eating,but where..... On a TRAIN?

"He's probably writing his own thread about the strange woman next to him who's sniffing him and looking longingly at his butter."

I used to have a friend who spread butter on Ham and just ate it like that 😷

I would be too self conscious to eat like that on the train.
A packet of crisps or the like, yes - but anything like that seems way too private!

queenvomit Your phrasing makes it sound like that's the reason you arent friends anymore

He must be on a ketogenic diet! ask him..

Maybe he's a food pioneer and is trying all sorts of weird combinations till he finds a winner. I don't think he's found it yet tho.
I remember Jamie Oliver telling us to try cheese sprinkled with coffee powder and honey. He said it was pukka, I tried it and it was. But what made him try it in the first place?! I think your man is experimenting.
I hope.

My bet is that he has just had coconut oil in a bulletproof coffee! It's all falling into place!

Any way you look at it, he's one greasy man.

his arteries must be groaning.

Er, he's got a sharp knife with him on public transport?!!!

Atkins is soooo five years ago. What your weirdo travelling companion is doing is Paleo (like Atkins but more expensive and inconvenient).

I've heard of Almond Butter but not walnuts and a slab of butter.

Has he finished yet OP?

Paleo is raw stuff, not so new either.

OP, could it be spread cheese instead of butter? That would make slightly more sense.

I read about bulletproof coffee a while back. Coffee whizzed up with butter. With (IIRC) some added fatty acids or something. Mmmmm.

Butter makes all food 500% better.

Name one thing that butter doesn't make better

YES!!! I have found my people!

I used to have a friend who spread butter on Ham and just ate it like that

queenvomit did we used to be friends?? 😂

Coconut oil, butter, nuts, blue cheese... Definitely LCHF! blue cheese is antisocial though!

I think coffee might be one thing not improved by butter, to be honest. And I am an ardent fan of both. Separately.