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?!

100% ltb

I made my own butter as part of a school project. One lactic, one sweet cream. I churned it using the K beater in DM's Kenwood.

Oh. My. God.

Another poor sod brought up on margarine 🤢. My mum used to by the industrial size tubs. It had zero taste and if you didn't spread it on hot toast straight away then it just didn't melt at all. Still makes me shudder to think about it. Now we've all moved out my mum buys butter! 😏

Is there any difference between the plant-based vegan stuff like Vitalite and Pure

and the most famous margarines like Flora and Stork?

Is it all similar, or are the vegan ones healthier in some way?

This thread has prompted me to ask about stuff for baking. I used to buy the block butter but changed to the supermarket version of spreadable baking butter - like Stork I guess. Is it really bad?

He thought he was doing a good thing because it was "cheaper"

It took me ages to train my DH that sometimes there's a reason food is "cheaper" - ie the quality's not as good.

Lurpak is the most delicious butter

Can I ask how you all store your butter?

In my arteries mostly...

I cut into quarters and have a quarter out in the butter dish at a time.

I hate it in sandwich shops when they ask if you want butter and you get marge. Really it's the lies I can't stand.

Lol jan!

I dislike butter, far too strong and i was brought up on it. I'm now a Flora convert.

Goat butter as a lighter flavour red, might be worth a try .

Can I ask how you all store your butter?

Fridge until it is needed, then it goes into a butter dish and stays out of the fridge.

I can't have butter any more because of some accursed late onset dairy intolerance ( eczema and bright red skin, itchy lips - not worth it) I would rather have nothing, or maybe a little mayo in a sandwich to moisten than any of the alternative spreads out there because they all have a weird mouth feel and plastic taste IMO . Sigh - crumpets 🙁

Am now craving toast with loadsa butter.

Can't stand margarine.

But butter is so expensive think the cheapest is £3.85 for 500g

Healthier, how? By product of petrol

I came home with two packs of lurpak butter. DH thought it was his birthday. He loves lurpack but it's so expensive. So I buy supermarkets own brand, however there was an offer on the lurpack and it was cheaper than their own brand

My DH always grabs margarine too. Whatever big tubs are on sale. He reckons there’s no difference in taste, but I think it ruins whatever food it’s on.

What Marg. are you all buying,I toyed with the idea of getting some for sandwiches where you can't taste it too much but butter at £1.60 was still cheaper than the spreads on offer.Will be having it with drop scones later when DD gets home to warm us up.

I hate it in sandwich shops when they ask if you want butter and you get marge. Really it's the lies I can't stand. Oyster - yes I had this with a bacon sarnie of all things, they asked if I wanted butter, so I said yes (rookie error, I ask if they mean butter or marg now!) the 'butter' marg melted and made the whole thing taste like vomit. I nearly cried. Put so much ketchup on to cover the taste of it, but it was still horrid.

But butter is so expensive think the cheapest is £3.85 for 500g noenergy where are you shopping? Usually a 250g block of butter is about £1.20 in Tesco

Let him eat it all
I'd make some scones for him to have it on

I quietly judge margarine consumers... In a world where butter and olive oil are readily available, there simply isn't any excuse for something so bloody awful.

In fact margarine is food crime.

Weird I'm assuming you haven't bought butter for a while? The absolute cheapest these days is about £1.50. It's really shot up, but I still wouldn't use anything else except butter, and olive oil.

I hate it in sandwich shops when they ask if you want butter and you get marge. Really it's the lies I can't stand

^ This, a thousand times over. I've learnt the hard way that there are people out there that call spread 'butter' and actual butter 'best butter' for some unbeknown reason, so if you don't want nasty spread ruining your food, you have to interrogate everyone who offers you butter as to what it really is, because it is rarely actual butter, even when it's in a nice-ish pub that goes on about it's lovely home made soup and it's nice bread from the artisan bakery across the road and then goes on to put shitey spread in a tub for your roll.

Or the Asda cafe who not only lied about the contents of the giant 2 kilo tub (really, it's butter, I don't think so, I've never seen it in tubs like that, not even from catering suppliers) they went on to claim that they had 'run out of butter' so I sent my crumpets back while muttering about the whole aisle of actual butter not 20 feet from where we were standing.