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?

for some reason the OP made me laugh out loud

Some kind of vegetarian new years no-carb fad diet?!

Not place marking whilst I rush out to buy walnuts. Slams door and forgets purse on way out

I want a fat bomb now

I'm guessing you can't just incorporate them into any diet and lose weight though...

Quim

Unsalted butter with walnuts is wrong. It has to be salted. So no YANBU.

I have been known to make a sort of sandwich from large cornflakes and butter. So not all that weird.

I like butter but don't think I'd dip walnuts in it though, I do sometimes use it as a cold dip for my cold new potatoes lol, also with ham sometimes i like to spread mayo on to slices of it, roll it up and eat it

Definitely sounds like Atkins! I ate some bizarre but delicious things on that diet!

I was thinking ketogenic diet too.

I was imagining he was all prim and proper and fussy, like Mr Bean. The suggestion upthread that he could be a bodybuilder in a cutting phase has thrown my mental image out completely. OP please come back and tell us about his physique

As I'm at home having my lunchbreak I tried, in the spirit of scientific inquiry- hm, well, ok I suppose,but not nearly as nice as a walnut eaten simultaneously with a Cheddar.

Back when I wasn't vegan I'd have happily eaten cold salted butter by the cube. Sigh.

The size of my arse

I thought that was very funny.
Just showing my appreciation.

with ham sometimes i like to spread mayo on to slices of it, roll it up and eat it

I'll see your mayo and raise you a spoonful of coleslaw rolled up in a bit of ham

Perhaps he Is on the spectrum and only likes or eats certain foods.

PotatoWaffleCob actually I think you'll find it makes food 501.87% better to be precise. Plus is versatile in a whole range of other applications.

In butter we trust.

Who tried it? I forgot and am eating Nutella now.

I went to buy butter and after this thread just looked at all the wonderful butters - I've only bought Kerrygold for regular use and Lurpak unsalted for baking.

Are the posh looking French butters tasty? And the Swedish whey butter?

Does anyone have a favourite to recommend? I want to try more butter. It can only be a good thing to do.

I am Swedish and I don't know what whey butter is?

Fjällbrynt Original whey butter. The Swedish classic Messmör, with a hint of vanilla.

450g.

Ingredients:
Whey (from cow's milk), sugar (5%), butter, vanillin aroma, iron.

That butter sounds weird? Sugar and vanilla in it? What's it for?

dolly

My dad spreads butter on weetabix and eats it. He's a bit odd though.
Butter in coffee sounds a little odd but I might try it tomorrow if it helps with weight loss.....
Mind you I love Very Thickly Spread butter on cream crackers, got to be proper salted butter though, none of this unsalted rubbish

I don't know gunsandbanjos I'm not Swedish and the Swedish person apparently hasn't heard of it!

I'd put it on toast or even fresh bread for a sweet snack maybe. I make blueberry whole meal loaf that it might be good on. Maybe on a home made muffin (I tend not to make them very sweet)

I guess you could even eat it raw with walnuts if you like them sweet - I like pecans sweet.

Oh messmör! Of course then I understand. Yeah that's normal. 😉😎 nothing buttery about it really, you'll be disappointed. Texture closer to condensed milk, very much an acquired taste. I go through phases of craving it. A few christmases ago it was all the rage to add it to truffles, as an interesting ... thing. Keep meaning to try that.

It's sugary but otherwise low fat and quite nutritious I believe. You should try. For the novelty! But it's nothing like butter.