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Although my preference is for butter I am obliged to use Flora as it is the only "spread" we have in the house. This is due to the fact my other half doesn’t like butter because it overpowers the taste of the food on her ryvita or crispbreads or whatever. Flora I find is pretty tasteless so doesn’t affect the taste of my sandwiches.
As far as toasting crumpet and smothering in spread I’m all for it
"Bottoms Up"
Oh you mean pikelets………………
this reminds me of my mis spent youth; I worked for a short time at Mrs. Pipers cream tea cafe in Boscastle; in the morning we had to butter the bread, if my memory is correct we had to spread 2 loaves with one pack of butter; you had to soften the butter just enough to make it spreadable; too much and it separated and was unusable..happy days! my son and his girlfriend buy butter and it calls to me so when I steal a bit I try to smooth over the top so it doesn’t look as if it’s been touched, but does appear to be shrinking……
We have both butter and Olivio (or as it is called now Bertolli – why must they mess around changing names?) in the house and which one is used depends on what it is being used with.
With fresh crusty bread it just has to be butter, the same with hot crumpets. Needless to say chip butties must also have the butter treatment as well.
For "ordinary" sandwiches it tends to be the spread.
We did go through a "healthy" stage where butter was avoided but we didn’t enjoy it and we now take the attitude we are at an age where we are nearer the day we die than the day we were born and we could get run over by a bus tomorrow – so to hell with it and we eat what we want, do what we enjoy and live each day as it comes – you never know if it will be your last.
Interestingly some nutritionists (the one in the Observer at least) suggest that spreads should be avoided and there is little wrong with butter
Its the chemicals…
Has to be butter for me unles its the sort of sandwich where i dont want the flavour to overwhelm
We use pro active too
Yeo Valley butter is my fav
Yeo valley- are they the people who make the yummy yoghurts? if they are the butter needs checking out….
I await the equivalent specifically for the Indian subcontinent market – "I Can’t Believe It’s Not Ghee".
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I detest the taste of most spreads so much that I’ve even taking to asking pubs/shops/hosts "whats’ on it"? My fav. butter in Sainsbury’s TTD Jersey Milk but any good one will do.
I can cope with mayo as a sub for butter if none available.You’ll get away with spreads Peter
but don’t eat Jam
you could seriously frighten someoneYou’ll get away with spreads Peter
but don’t eat Jam
you could seriously frighten someoneI’ve been giving that some thought and just got it…
Bertolli (or watever its called now), but i do like real butter in a jacket potato!!!
otherwise flora does for medaiesy
Butter! Preferably nothing too strongly salted.
You can keep your trans-fat packed crap thanks!
You’ll get away with spreads Peter
but don’t eat Jam
you could seriously frighten someone One of my pet topics.
Spread is absolutely loathsome in all forms, and if I taste it in anything the offending food goes straight in the bin.
Butter is lovely stuff, and much healthier than the other crap. Why would you have something which is made from a petrol by-product and dyed yellow (it is grey beforehand) to make it look like butter, when you can just have butter?
Just a few off the top of my head:-
1) People in the theatre or cinema who sit nearby and sniff or cough throughout the performance.
2) CD/DVD cases where the "fingers" of the plastic bubble in the middle always break or (with CDs) the case falls apart.
and
3) The way the last Weetabix you put in the bowl of milk, never quite goes as soft as the others.
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