To wonder why anyone uses "spreads" instead of butter?

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They're awful! So fake and plastic-ish. Hasn't it been proved that butter's better for you?

Do you use spread? Why?

We use Bertolli with butter because it spreads straight from the fridge.

I use clover. Don't think that's butter?

Spread spreads on untoasted bread right out of the fridge. Butter sitting on my counter is too hard and just chunks when we try to make a sarnie.

that one-molecule-step away thing is false, btw.

In Aus butter has gone up in price as well and it’s horrendously expensive for people on a budget

I use Flora, Bertolli or any spread that's on offer purely for convenience of having something that spreads straight from the fridge. I will only use butter if a baking recipe requires it.

Spread is horrible. I buy butter blocks for baking, and the purest spreadable butter I can find for toast and sandwiches.

I live in a warm climate so can’t leave butter out as it goes rancid very quickly. Unhelpfully too, despite there being a huge dairy industry here, all butter is crazy expensive. A block is equivalent to £3 (or more), and the good spreadable I buy is £4.50 for a 250g tub. Needs must though!

We use Vitalite as DD1 is lactose intolerant and DCs prefer the taste.

I don't like butter, it makes me feel sick.

YANBU I cannot understand why anyone would use something so fake

I buy the lovely West Country butter from Aldi.

Grew up with anchor and the mum changed into margarine. I bought that for a few years but after going on holiday and having real butter I switched.

Now margarine on toast make me feel sick. I'm not sure why.

Dairy allergies are the reasons here. We have proper butter as well for those of us who don't need to avoid dairy. Of course that just explains some margarines, most aren't actually suitable for dairy allergies because they contain buttermilk.

I actually really like the taste of Clover. It has half the saturated fat of butter so I think in my head that’s better for me. My mum (70) eats absolutely tons of Clover on everything - I mean absolute slabs of it on toast and in potatoes etc - and she has the lowest cholesterol I’ve ever seen - 3.4. So I’m carrying on with it...!

Weve both as no time in the morning for butter to melt so youcan spread it on sandwiches. Butter is liquid gold in price at the moment

Butter is fine on warm summer days & where I grew up where it's warm outside in summer. Then it actually spreads at room temperature.

I don't like butter on sandwiches at all, actually, but it's useful for the kids' school sarnies.

My dc's won't eat butter. Drives me mad.

I have my butter and they have their chemical artificial spread stuff.

I read that somewhere that the molecular content of butter is only one step away from being plastic.

That's a completely meaningless statement (I'm a biochemist). What do you mean by 'one step'?

I buy big tubs of Country Life because it's cheaper that butter, DH doesn't really like butter all that much, the boys don't actually care what's moistening their bread before the filling goes in the sandwich and it tastes good enough.

That molecular plastic rumour was about spread...not butter!

It's cheaper. Not everyone can afford butter.
But in all honesty too much days set off my ibs so to make it easier to control I have a low fat diet, so spread it is. My kitchen is also freezing in winter so trying to spread butter is impossible. But honestly who cares being a butter eater doesn't make you superior.

1. Non-dairy
2. More spreadable - I live in a warm place,so butter needs to be refrigerated fora lot of the year. "Spreadable" butter, yeah if you're Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also don't mind holey slices of bread.

Because butter is too expensive, much as I prefer it.

CMPA

I’d say price is a big factor. Marg is significantly cheaper. Agree it doesn’t taste as good. But if it saves money, people will buy marg.

Oh yes also I have to eat a relatively low fat diet or my reflux goes bonkers.

Butter has always tasted disgusting and creamy to me. (I hate cream too).

History or margarine v interesting though, and gross, whale fats and suchlike.

I haven't eaten either for ages anyway.