BUTTER is the business

[Rocktheboot]

Thanks to Highfields I have rediscovered the joy of butter this weekend. Toast is DELICIOUS with butter instead of flora on it. Am thinking cupcakes will be twice as nice.

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My parents strayed briefly away from butter in the eighties- an unnecessary cholesterol scare....They ate this tasteless grease called Outline.
I've never eaten any kind of 'spread' except butter since I started buying my own food.

I love butter. It does seem expensive though. Not for what it is, but still. The weekly shop would go up if I stopped buying marg completely. Even DH now despises and refuses to buy Flora, though.

I never fell for the margarine being healthier lie in the first place, can't believe people continue to use it. Butter is far superior.

yum

no filthy marg here ever!

Butter on your toast, on your veg, in your cakes.

I grew up with butter & have never (at the grand old age of 44) bought margarine so sadly I can't say up yours to the marg-activists by boycott ... but down with flora!

Buy it when on offer Popcorn and freeze.
It freezes really well and anyone who hasn't grated frozen butter on to food is in for a treat

I have never eaten margarine.
I am breastfeeding a CMPA baby and I miss butter!

I only ever use butter, at work or at home. Margarine or any other type of spread is vile. (only exceptions are if cooking for people with dietary requirements).

I didn't have butter growing up. We had 'spread'. I assumed all sandwiches tasted greasy and home made cakes were always a bit dense.
I bought butter at university. Oh my. Tried a few other things since, but always end up back with real butter. Mostly I use Lurpak spreadable which is basically butter with some oil to soften it.
Real butter for all baking. Mmmm!
Also at Christmas I do honey glazed carrots. You have to steam them and then pan fry with butter before adding the honey. No other fat works, it has to be butter.
Now I've read the word butter so many times it sounds weird.

oh.my.days....CRUMPETS!!

And loving the thought of veggies roast in butter

We're also a butter only house. Lightly salted on everything, however we are eating less bread so I keep only about a quarter of a block at room temperature in a tub, easy to spread, the rest in the fridge.

Butter in a butter dish with warm scones. Tis the food of the gods.

I would also like to predict that butter dishes are going to make a comeback.

BellaBattenburg
My parents strayed briefly away from butter in the eighties- an unnecessary cholesterol scare....They ate this tasteless grease called Outline.

I mentioned on another thread* that I have naturally very high cholesterol, and when I went rogue for a few months and came off Benecol and changed to butter (and cream!) my cholesterol came right down. So butter all the way for me as well.

*amazing number of threads about marge v butter at the moment, aren't there?

Margarine is just about acceptable if you’re doing cricket tea sandwiches or cake sale item. Otherwise butter is irreplaceable.
I don’t understand refined vegetable fats on toast. Disgusting.

OOOOOooo! we need a butter dish thread! mine is really boring, but there are some great ones aren't there??

I always use butter, I’ll occasionally go on a wee health kick and buy in Flora ( but I can say with 100% absolute certainty that won’t ever happen again!).

Butter is the way to go!

Much as I don’t want to get drawn into the Flora debate, butter is the food of the gods and I can’t understand why anyone would eat plastic cack instead.

I’m looking for a small butter dish. Anyone got any suggestions?

Country Life is the best. Because you can't put a better bit o' butter on your knife.

What brands ARE butter?

Went to Wales on a self catering holiday and bought Welsh butter - drooling just remembering it.

@Rocktheboot I want this butter dish. I’m planning for my horrible butter dish to meet with an “accident” very soon so I have to get this .

Don’t forget the butter in coffee thing, whatever that’s called.

People would have a healthier weight if they had a healthier attitude to food. Stick to butter, instead of replacing it with rubbish substitute. Just learn to cook better and don't use butter for everything.

We are a healthy ,and dare I say slim, family. Everything is "full fat", "full sugar" and as fresh as possible. It works.

I do also buy "softer butter" - Kerrygold has one, for toasts and when we're in a rush. But butter is nice, everything in moderation is good for you.

Don’t forget the butter in coffee thing

I am intrigued...is that as bad as I am picturing it?

Can I just add that coconut oil is damn fine too? As is olive oil. Fresh bread, dipped in extra virgin olive oil? Yum!

Thanks so much Flora, for being such a disgusting ball root of an organisation. You've helped me appreciate olive oil and coconut oil again. Thanks .

Oh nut butter too! YUM!

Yours sincerely,
A pro trans rights enjoyer of MN

Oh and don't forget this 🖕.