To exile DH for bringing back margarine instead of butter?

[BabychamSocialist]

Sent DH to do the shopping (I know, I know) as I was bogged down with something. To be fair to him, he managed to do pretty well. Except he's brought back Margarine instead of the Butter I asked for. He thought he was doing a good thing because it was "cheaper".

AIBU to exile him and give him the cold shoulder for the foreseeable future? Margarine just isn't as good, is it? What am I supposed to have on Crumpets?!

Make him eat it on his toast/sandwiches or whatever all by himself until it has all gone. You, naturally, will be eating butter on yours...

I didn't taste butter until I was 21 years old. Dragged up on Summer County margarine. I didn't think much of it, to be honest. Too cloying and fatty. Beef dripping on the other hand . . .Seriously, still don't care for it, nor the clotted cream my Cornish dh would eat with a spoon if I let him. (Obvs I can't stop him) My cholesterol is a smug 3.2 even though I'm a couple of stones overweight. That's likely the vino.

My DH came home with Clover once. Now, to be fair, I had said buy a block of real proper butter and not a tub of spreadable Anchor. Clover is not real butter.

He also buys feckin Elmlea given the opportunity, loser.

Margarine just isn't as good, is it?

Bit of an understatement!

FleurDeLizzie

Oh god, I just got a shudder thinking of Summer County margarine. Even by margarine standards it was awful - a really synthetic taste. I do miss dripping butties!

I'm going to have to coddle himself a bit for being the sensible butter user and buyer that he is.

Does anyone remember that awful stuff in tins?

Babycham Summer County was all I knew! Butter was a very posh thing that posh people had. Stork was a staging post. A step up, if you will. Culminating in the day I actually tasted real butter. 'Twas a disappointment to me. It tasted like marge, but unpleasantly fatty. I realise that the lack of taste lies with me. And let's face it, if I don't eat it there's more for everybody else.

Idontdowindows. Tins!? What fresh hell is this!?

LTB. Margarine is not for crumpets. Margarine is not for anything

You can do a citizens arrest for that OP!

I thought margarine was now considered much worse for you because of the trans-fats and hydrogenated oils?

Margarine and spreads are actually quite difficult to come by here because trans-fats are banned, you maybe get one type of olive oil spread for sale at the supermarket and that’s it. Butter a-plenty though.

Every tub of Flora contains hexane from the solvent washout after the oilseed rape is crushed. Also, the Flora plant is in Thurrock. Nothing says "polyunsaturated goodness" like tidal mud, aggregate quarries and cement silos.

FleurdeLizzie it was Blue Band if I remember correctly....

Today I tried Kerrygold softer butter for the first time. Not spreadable, just softer pure butter. I normally buy Tesco blocks of butter.

I ran around the house getting everyone to taste it because it was just so good. So good that I made breadsticks just so I could dip them in the melted butter.

My dad made me a chip butty with some sort or marg spread and it was vile.

I knew marg was inferior to butter but I never knew brands of butter could be so different.

Happy2bhomely

There's a whole range of 'best' butters (i.e. any butter which is actually butter).

There's a lovely one from Tesco, I think, it's called Isle of Man butter and it's delightful. Jersey butter is really nice as well - you can taste the difference because it's made from the milk of Jersey cows, which is much creamier (they sell it as gold top).

Well, I'm going to have to set up a taste test so I can decide which is really the best. If only it all wasn't so bloody expensive!

You pay for quality.

Ugh. DH knows I would leave him if he bought margarine instead of butter. Still trying to train him that lurpak isn’t the right type of butter, but at least it’s edible.

The posh butter from aldi with sea salt is amazing. I could eat a block of it!

Margarine is evil, I would never eat it, only butter in this house. Luckily my OH feels the same. Anchor butter is our preferred choice. You have my sympathies

Definitely LTB. Possibly defence for murder! Euch!

We used to take the tinned stuff with us to Spain as it didn't melt. Should have realised then!!

There are two types of butter - sweetcream and lactic. Anchor is sweetcream and Lurpak is lactic. If you grew up in the North, you probably prefer Lurpak, and if you grew up in the South you probably prefer Anchor.

But regardless of your provenance, if you don't prefer butter to margarine, you are a philistine.

There's nothing healthy about margarine at all. Nor any of the spreads that claim that they're like butter.

That's so strange about Lurpak/Anchor - we used to always get Lurpak before my mum went insane and started getting Margarine, but my relatives down south only ever got Anchor - how weird! I do love Lurpak - I'd freebase it if I could. Aldi's Norpak version is almost as good and literally half the price.