Does anyone

[4getmenot]

Ever eat proper butter nowadays? I have utterly butterly and cant imagine ever going back to having to try and melt the butter spread on bread

[annie0000]

like jam, but not with butter unless the butter is all melted into the toast or scone or pancake or whatever. Sounds llike what you need is a butter version of a egg slicer, and you can just lie the slices on top of the toast then sit down and wait for the ambulance to arrive!

[LoftyLottie]

LOL Annie. Yes an egg slicer would do nicely.

[Eve]

I don't use it very often but nothing beats proper butter for me on hot buttered toast or teacakes.

I don't refridgerate proper butter so it's always much more spreadable.

[mccfluff]

mmmm yep i like president or kerrigold but i do have a tub of clover in the fridge for everyday, it tends the be a weekend treat, crumpets butter and marmite

[LoftyLottie]

Apart from the expense, do people not eat butter because they think it is bad for them? Would they rather eat spreads full of treated oils and other rubbish rather than a pure produce?

[popsickle]

do they stil do golden churn.....
kerrygold is well the best. satly and creamy...
ermmm, well yeah..

[heathfield]

Never tasted St Ivel Gold. I remember it being promoted on TV as though it was Australia's favourite spread. Then someone reported that processed tallow was a major ingredient! Yeccch!
Butter prices have shot up recently. Supermarkets claim farmer were having to buy grain for cattle feed after last year's abysmal summer, and the cost was carrying through. So how come New Zealand's Anchor butter went up in price by a similar amount to the others? It clearly states on the packaging it's from cows fed on grass the whole year round! Rip-off or what?
I soften cold butter from the friidge in the microwave. The problem is that it will melt from the inside if you give it too much. 35 to 40 seconds is enough. It'll be still too firm for fresh bread, but fine for toast.

[Scarlett]

I never buy it for me but if I have guests over I buy Anchor spreadable, which is actually butter, but spreadable. Utterly Butterly is goodness knows what!

[shaneystar2]

Margarine is one molecule from being plastic .And so are a lot of these spreads . Butter has no trans fats .I love butter and have been eating it for years .And that's a lot of years !
Butter is better and you won't ever convince me that something like Utterly Butterly or Clover tastes like butter because it doesn't !
We had new spuds yesterday with lashings of Kerrygold .Yum yum yum !
We eat enough of it to leave it out in a butter dish in the pantry and it spreads easily.As for all the scare mongering about it being bad for you the trans fats in margarines and spreads are just as bad for you .So ,if it's going to be bad for me butter wins every time .
I would rather eat butter which is a natural product than something full of additives .

[raysparx1]

We only use butter, all the other stuff is more dangerous than something natural, full of rubbish and waste materials, floor sweepings no doubt.

[Kleiber]

I use a lot of olive oil in salads & cooking, but you can't beat real butter! Salted for savoury things & unsalted on toast with jam. I agree with loftylottie & ray - there are so many artificial additives in the "butter substitutes". Surely the human body is more capable of assimilating natural stuff than a load of chemicals!

[LoftyLottie]

Yes I use olive oil for cooking, salads, etc. Kleiber. I love the stuff. Again, a pure product and we know it is good for us too!! Just off to make breakfast of tomatoes fried in olive oil and basil and will heap in on toast!!