fogbat
The Talibum
No way. Salty butter has its place.
What sort of French ponce do you think you are?
Proper farmhouse butter is lovely. I used to eat lumps of it on its own.
And now I am fat
Lurpak v I can't believe it's not butter
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Proper farmhouse butter is lovely. I used to eat lumps of it on its own.
And now I am fat
Riklet
procrastinación
Any kind of spread or margerine is absolute fucking WRONGNESS, and butter is almost as bad on toast and stuff, although at least it's great in cooking.
Fuck spreads, they are foul, and the holy trinity of mayo, a glass of water or a non-woossy mouth (maybe not all together) will save you from the need for such yuck.
Lurpak do however firmly suggest that "wonky is good", something which seems to have sold 'em in Bristol!
Fuck spreads, they are foul, and the holy trinity of mayo, a glass of water or a non-woossy mouth (maybe not all together) will save you from the need for such yuck.
Lurpak do however firmly suggest that "wonky is good", something which seems to have sold 'em in Bristol!
fogbat
The Talibum
I use Marmite in lieu of all that margarine/butter nonsense.
Your Last Tango in Paris recreation was particularly unpleasant, IIRC
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I think I can't believe it's not butter should be renamed I don't give a toss it's not butter.
I've had butter, I've had many different types of "buttery" margarines, and neither of them were so exciting that I can genuinely say I miss them one bit nowadays.
I've had butter, I've had many different types of "buttery" margarines, and neither of them were so exciting that I can genuinely say I miss them one bit nowadays.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Oh my aching sides! You should write for the Vicar of Dibley!
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Oh my aching sides! You should write for the Vicar of Dibley!
I thought it was funny.
About the only thing I laughed at on the Vicar of Dibley though.
Riklet
procrastinación
Oh go bone some butter!
Give in to the mayo, for almost everything deliciously sammichy it's perfect! There are of course exceptions; jams, peanut butter, nutella, marmite (urggg), but those don't even need spreads.
It's just a mass delusion man, i'll fight this to the end! Spreads are rubbish thing indoctrinated into youse at birth! Free yourselves from the slime...
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
beurre d'isigny? that's well lush. i occasionally eat flakes of it on its own.
I love the idea of someone lecturing others on being 'indoctrinated' to like simple butter when, in fact, they're ladling fat-laden gobbets of industrial spunksmeg from mayonnaise jars instead.
Shop bought premade mayonnaise is invariably grim, freshly prepared stuff slightly better. But none match the majesty and bread complementing ability of butter.
Shop bought premade mayonnaise is invariably grim, freshly prepared stuff slightly better. But none match the majesty and bread complementing ability of butter.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Butter over marge, but not necessarily lurpack.
but it's not butter.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Oh go bone some butter!
Give in to the mayo, for almost everything deliciously sammichy it's perfect! There are of course exceptions; jams, peanut butter, nutella, marmite (urggg), but those don't even need spreads.
It's just a mass delusion man, i'll fight this to the end! Spreads are rubbish thing indoctrinated into youse at birth! Free yourselves from the slime...
i have mayo AND butter in a chicken sandwich
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i don't think i've ever bought lurpak. isn't it quite a minor brand? why is it only one of two brands in the poll?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
it's not just a spread. in fact, i use butter for other things more like cooking and anal sex.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
You can use other spreads in cooking as direct replacements for butter with no noticeable effect. Saying that, I tend to buy butter for use in cooking, on the grounds that I am contrary.
I am making no comments on anal sex, Marlon Brando.
How many spreads can you keep in the fridge though?
You pretty much need butter for cooking, preferably unsalted. We use less butter on bread than we do in the course of cooking and baking tbh.
Why you'd swap a simple natural product for some artificially coloured, weird tasting spread like most margerines is beyond me.
You pretty much need butter for cooking, preferably unsalted. We use less butter on bread than we do in the course of cooking and baking tbh.
Why you'd swap a simple natural product for some artificially coloured, weird tasting spread like most margerines is beyond me.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
a) I thought it was because it tastes a bit rubbish like marge.
b) If it was marge, then they'd add colouring to it, but it's not....
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Mostly health reasons. Butter is about as unhealthy as it gets. Plus convenience. Spreadable butters don't spread. Flora does.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Also, to state the obvious:
There's room generally room in ours for butter and another spread though. And if there isn't then I can root around in the back and remove something that has started to go mouldy and unpleasant.
Depends how big your fridge is and what else you keep in there!
There's room generally room in ours for butter and another spread though. And if there isn't then I can root around in the back and remove something that has started to go mouldy and unpleasant.
I don't reckon butter's that unhealty fwiw, or at least the French paradox would seem to mitigate against that.
Over the years many of the health claims about the superiority of margarine have been demolished. Those same 'healthy' margarines of the past contained huge amounts of transfats, now known to be fucking unhealthy. I'm fairly certain modern margarines won't turn out to be that much better in the fullness of time. It's all a load of hokey cokey shit marketing shit if you ask me - margarines can't compete on tastes so they use dubious health claims as a differentiator.
Butter's a time tested product, simple in its provenance, and tastes much better than the alternatives (imo).
Over the years many of the health claims about the superiority of margarine have been demolished. Those same 'healthy' margarines of the past contained huge amounts of transfats, now known to be fucking unhealthy. I'm fairly certain modern margarines won't turn out to be that much better in the fullness of time. It's all a load of hokey cokey shit marketing shit if you ask me - margarines can't compete on tastes so they use dubious health claims as a differentiator.
Butter's a time tested product, simple in its provenance, and tastes much better than the alternatives (imo).
