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Good folks: What is your spread of choice and what brand? - I.e Lurpak, Flora etc. etc
I’ll be tallying up the nominations and crowning an ultimate champion based upon your votes so be sure to defend your chosen spread with your very mortal souls!
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Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters). |
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By *hoirCouple 35 weeks ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters)."
Depending on your spending threshold, we found a lovely one in Tesco but it's very expensive. Otherwise M&S and Waitrose are fairly reliable for this. Our everyday is Kerrygold because Irish butter is generally better quality, but for a splurge totally agree with you
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"Flora is margarine?
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Not quite. It's kind of a blend. When you put margarine on warm toast, it just sits there. Flora actually melts like butter.
The difference between butter and margarine is that one is made from milk fats, the other from oils. Flora just get the balance right, and doesn't taste synthetic. |
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I have some kind of organic butter in the fridge atm (for baking) and Lurpak but I'm a bit of a floozy (ooh that's a term that can go in the silly word thread going on), I'm not committed to any one so could easily be different next time around. |
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Here's one going back a while: Krona.
It was a fixture in the family fridge, and really nice butter. Available in salted or unsalted.
Having a Yorkshire father, we were never going to get the chance to even try the unsalted variety!  |
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"Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters).
Depending on your spending threshold, we found a lovely one in Tesco but it's very expensive. Otherwise M&S and Waitrose are fairly reliable for this. Our everyday is Kerrygold because Irish butter is generally better quality, but for a splurge totally agree with you
P"
I agree, finding the French butter is very expensive. Local to where I live, there are no Tesco large enough to stock it. Morrisons used to, and it wasn't too expensive, but they don't stock it any more. There is however, a big Sainsbury and they do stock it. They also stock Reblochon cheese (similarly expensive). I make savings by buying fresh half baguettes from Lidl to spread the French butter on. And lardons from Lidl to make tartiflette.
I do have expensive tastes, but it is much cheaper than actually going to France to enjoy French foods! |
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"Good folks: What is your spread of choice and what brand? - I.e Lurpak, Flora etc. etc
I’ll be tallying up the nominations and crowning an ultimate champion based upon your votes so be sure to defend your chosen spread with your very mortal souls!
Fight! "
Sainsbury's own brand salted butter |
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By *hoirCouple 35 weeks ago
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"Flora is margarine?
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Not quite. It's kind of a blend. When you put margarine on warm toast, it just sits there. Flora actually melts like butter.
The difference between butter and margarine is that one is made from milk fats, the other from oils. Flora just get the balance right, and doesn't taste synthetic."
Flora is margarine. The plastic margarine from years ago has changed since they used whale fat but it is still very close to plastic.
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By *hoirCouple 35 weeks ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters).
Depending on your spending threshold, we found a lovely one in Tesco but it's very expensive. Otherwise M&S and Waitrose are fairly reliable for this. Our everyday is Kerrygold because Irish butter is generally better quality, but for a splurge totally agree with you
P
I agree, finding the French butter is very expensive. Local to where I live, there are no Tesco large enough to stock it. Morrisons used to, and it wasn't too expensive, but they don't stock it any more. There is however, a big Sainsbury and they do stock it. They also stock Reblochon cheese (similarly expensive). I make savings by buying fresh half baguettes from Lidl to spread the French butter on. And lardons from Lidl to make tartiflette.
I do have expensive tastes, but it is much cheaper than actually going to France to enjoy French foods!"
We're up your way soon. We'll pop in for a 'snack'.
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By *bi HaiveMan 35 weeks ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Aldi's fake 'I can't believe it's not butter'
Can't remember what it's called.  "
Just been to the fridge.
'Beautifully Buttery'.
Not bad on toast. If your bread fits in the toaster of course...... |
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"Flora is margarine?
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Not quite. It's kind of a blend. When you put margarine on warm toast, it just sits there. Flora actually melts like butter.
The difference between butter and margarine is that one is made from milk fats, the other from oils. Flora just get the balance right, and doesn't taste synthetic.
Flora is margarine. The plastic margarine from years ago has changed since they used whale fat but it is still very close to plastic.
C"
Margarine. One of the main ingredients has historically been palm oil.
Palm oil was also used extensively in the manufacture of soap.
That is why one of the largest soap manufacturers in Britain merged with one of the largest margarine manufacturers in The Netherlands and became the company we still know today as Unilever. (although they did sell off their spreads businesses a few years ago). |
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"Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters).
Depending on your spending threshold, we found a lovely one in Tesco but it's very expensive. Otherwise M&S and Waitrose are fairly reliable for this. Our everyday is Kerrygold because Irish butter is generally better quality, but for a splurge totally agree with you
P
I agree, finding the French butter is very expensive. Local to where I live, there are no Tesco large enough to stock it. Morrisons used to, and it wasn't too expensive, but they don't stock it any more. There is however, a big Sainsbury and they do stock it. They also stock Reblochon cheese (similarly expensive). I make savings by buying fresh half baguettes from Lidl to spread the French butter on. And lardons from Lidl to make tartiflette.
I do have expensive tastes, but it is much cheaper than actually going to France to enjoy French foods!
We're up your way soon. We'll pop in for a 'snack'.
C"
You are always welcome to call in.
ps can you please pick up some French butter and Reblochon from the Sainsbury's which yo pass along the way?
Don't worry about the half baguettes or lardons, I can nip down to Lidl for those! |
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By *hoirCouple 35 weeks ago
Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds |
"Genuine French Brittany butter made from unpasteurised milk - various brands - but it's getting hard to find. So my second choice is Welsh salted butter. (It contains more salt than other British butters).
Depending on your spending threshold, we found a lovely one in Tesco but it's very expensive. Otherwise M&S and Waitrose are fairly reliable for this. Our everyday is Kerrygold because Irish butter is generally better quality, but for a splurge totally agree with you
P
I agree, finding the French butter is very expensive. Local to where I live, there are no Tesco large enough to stock it. Morrisons used to, and it wasn't too expensive, but they don't stock it any more. There is however, a big Sainsbury and they do stock it. They also stock Reblochon cheese (similarly expensive). I make savings by buying fresh half baguettes from Lidl to spread the French butter on. And lardons from Lidl to make tartiflette.
I do have expensive tastes, but it is much cheaper than actually going to France to enjoy French foods!
We're up your way soon. We'll pop in for a 'snack'.
C
You are always welcome to call in.
ps can you please pick up some French butter and Reblochon from the Sainsbury's which yo pass along the way?
Don't worry about the half baguettes or lardons, I can nip down to Lidl for those! "
We'll nip into Waitrose, C is a bit of a snob on this front and he's been eyeing up the reblochon in there for ages anyway
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