Flora (and other margarine variants) V's Real Butter

SparkyTech

Was over in a friends house the other day for dinner. The only option laid out on the table for a little something to lash over the potatoes was Flora. However, like in our own household, the breadwinner buys this for his ''colestoral'' and ''healthy heart benefits''. I'm a cynical man by nature and suspect all this plant lowering complex stuff ya find in Flora and Benecol and the like could be a marketing scam?! :eek:

But more importantly, Flora and all the other variants of margarine don't have a utterly butterly on the REAL thing. Give me a slab of dairygold anyday, sure ya can't have a chip sambo without it!

Do you love Flora/Margarine type spreads, or are you a Butter lad/lass at heart?

Absurdum

I use Pure dairy free exclusively!

Guill

Since when does Dairy gold and Utterly scutterly count as real butter?

chin_grin

This. (Yeh bleedin' pansy :pac:)

W.Shakes-Beer

I love having a stick of butter wrapped in a rasher for breakfast.

SparkyTech

chin_grin wrote: »

This. (Yeh bleedin' fairy :pac:)

Also equally as nice, ta

Mr. Presentable

Butter.

Dairygold et al are NOT BUTTER. They are homogenised slime in comparison.

eilo1

Kerry Gold for the win!

Dairy gold and utterly butterly have nothing on the salty buttery goodness of the real deal :mad::mad:

chin_grin

Kerrygold. When you absolutely positively have to tear that slice of bread a new one. Accept no substitutes.

Glenster

The national dairy council is abusing this forum by posting the same thread every few days. We should never have let it become self aware......

syklops

Despite the fact Kerry Gold costs me 54 CZK, which is over 2 euros(a lot of money), and I could get butter for as little as 9 CZK(Not a lot of money), I get Kerry Gold every time. None of your lurpak, flora ambidexterous regi-digitalis for me.

SparkyTech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsbvGmLaU4

Absurdum

chin_grin wrote: »

This. (Yeh bleedin' pansy :pac:)

Ah you like ziz in Eyaland too?

RachaelVO

BUTTER ALL THE FECKING WAY!!!

None of that oil plant based ****e. I'd rather eat dry bread.


I must see if I can find it back, but I did read independent research on margarine v butter and butter won.

If I remember it correctly, we have been genetically predisposed to eating butter, and our livers don't like margarine, and some can actually give us cholesterol. The ingredient that is supposedly active in these spreads to make them good for your heart are in such small quantities that it renders the ineffective.

syklops

Why does the poll say "Utterly Butterly/Dairygold/ Other 'real butter'"

I mean Utterly Butterly is about as much real butter as my hole is. I cant believe its not butter, is about as believable as a butter as my aforementioned backside is.

mike65

Butter is butter, anything else not is not butter and should never be compared even though it so often is.

Nothing wrong with cheap spread in your sarnies but would you cook with flora instead of butter? NO!

Wibbs

Butter all the way, though I sometimes drizzle quality olive oil on my bread.

Margarine is plastic tasting muck to me. Unhealthy muck while it's at it. In fact I avoid all veggie oils like the bloody plague except for extra virgin olive oil(and hemp oil if I could get it). Read up on the history of the "new" veggie oils sunflower, corn, rapeseed and peanut oil. Used to be used mostly in the chemical industry in paints and the like. The petrochemical industry screwed that line of biz and they went around looking for other avenues. The "health" benefits are seriously over rated if not downright lies. Animal fats = baaaad and Veg fats = gooood is in serious need of review.

The focus on cholesterol itself is another dubious area. Not as dubious as some health hippie nuts would believe, but dubious nonetheless.

RachaelVO

Wibbs wrote: »

Butter all the way, though I sometimes drizzle quality olive oil on my bread.

Yeah, that's sooooo nice too! For me it has to be good bakery bread, a bit of onion and tomato with the olive oil... YUM! It's the only way I eat tomatoes.

Now I'm getting hungry...

Auvers

real butter is your only man, cant stand those manufactured butter "spreads"

moderation is the key to a healthy life

*edit* olive oil is a nice alternative on toast hhmmmm

azezil

RachaelVO wrote: »

Yeah, that's sooooo nice too! For me it has to be good bakery bread, a bit of onion and tomato with the olive oil... YUM! It's the only way I eat tomatoes.

Now I'm getting hungry...

Sounds quite like bruschetta which are delish!! nyom nyom.

For me, it's generally only LowLow, tastes like butter (made by kerry gold) but with less fat.

Flora etc. taste like muck.

jester77

Kerrygold is the only way and the salted version... not the pussy unsalted Kerrygold

Sinfonia

Butter Coloured Sandwich Dressing, from Didldidi

Chris P. Bacon

Didnt i do this a few weeks ago,real butter wins by the way

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056262301

speedboatchase

Why the 'V's' apostrophe?!! Who is V and why should I try his butter? :mad:

--Kaiser--

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

Dairygold et al are NOT BUTTER. They are homogenised slime in comparison.

Guill wrote: »

Since when does Dairy gold and Utterly scutterly count as real butter?

This.

Goddamn it OP, if I was at your house and you served me dairy spread when I asked for butter I would disembowel you

syklops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsbvGmLaU4

Kojak

Why does the poll say "what tyoe of butter do you put on your toast?"

Surely some people don't like having butter on their toast - maybe they prefer vaseline or jeyes fluid.

There should be more options on the poll.

RachaelVO

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Didnt i do this a few weeks ago,real butter wins by the way

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056262301

You most certainly did!

Of course butter won. How could reconsituted oil and "poly what his names" win. They totally suck and have no use what so ever, except maybe if you run out of lube. Then and it's only a maybe do they have their uses!

prinz

Butter only, but I use very, very little of it. Maybe use it on fresh bakery bread three times a week or so.

Not lashing it into sandwiches, onto potatoes or anything else.

OPENROAD

I normally use Flora Pro Activ, but am feeling a bit mad tonight, so going to have some toast with Dairygold.

admiralofthefleet

there is nothing nicer than toast staright out of the toaster smothered with real butter from a block on the table
ill have none of your shite low low or connaught gold please

Real butter is divine, though it's a pain to spread on the toast/bread

mconigol

Butter snobs :rolleyes:

The 5th worst kind of snob.

eilo1

mconigol wrote: »

Butter snobs :rolleyes:

The 5th worst kind of snob.

gtfo...............................................................

Paparazzo

If it's not real butter, Connacht Gold is the only alternative. Unsalted butter is up there with Dairygold in the shíte tasting league

Blatter

Been done to death in the nutrition and diet forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056040384


The answer is Butter is the healthiest, there is absolutely no doubts about it. Low fat spreads are highly processed ****e which are extremely unhealthy.

Most people only eat low fat spreads because they think it's healthier, IT'S NOT!!

--LOS--

soya butter! Its even nicer than real butter imo

starviewadams

I despise butter,was forced to eat disgusting butter and sliced cheese sambos by one of my childminders when I was a kid,can't stand the stuff now.

Disgusting yellow goop!

admiralofthefleet

--LOS-- wrote: »

soya butter! Its even nicer than real butter imo

me bollix

Saila

speedboatchase wrote: »

Why the 'V's' apostrophe?!! Who is V and why should I try his butter? :mad:

http://www.philipcoppens.com/vendetta_07.jpg

Gummy Panda

Butter but not on toast.

Boiled egg mashed up in a cup with some butter and salt.

FOOD OF THE GODS!

For Forks Sake

--LOS-- wrote: »

soya butter! Its even nicer than real butter imo

Burn them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Hulk Hands

Connacht Gold (especially the low fat version) is so much tastier than every other butter ive ever tried. I'm actually amazed that one brand can be so far ahead....it is butter afterall

OPENROAD

So what is the best brand/healthiest brand of butter to buy in supermarkets?

Irish Guitarist

I like Benecol Buttery Taste. It has a buttery taste. Most of the other spreads taste vile. I can't believe that anyone can't believe I Can't Believe It's Not Butter isn't butter.

moonflower

I only eat real butter, those fake ones taste like absolute crap. When I see Flora or I Can't Believe it's not Butter (really? Has anyone ever confused that sh1te with butter?) in other people's fridges I have to fight the urge to sneak them into the bin.

ArmaniJeanss

Preferably butter on toast.
Dairygold is actually OK, its the nearest to the real thing of all the spreadables I've tried.
Its inferior to butter tastewise but its in a different league to the UtterlyButterlys/TasteOfButter/ICantBelieve stuff.

Liam Byrne

syklops wrote: »

Why does the poll say "Utterly Butterly/Dairygold/ Other 'real butter'"

I mean Utterly Butterly is about as much real butter as my hole is. I cant believe its not butter, is about as believable as a butter as my aforementioned backside is.

+1,000,000

The poll needs to be corrected to put butter on its own.

For spuds, sandwiches, toast or pretty much anything, the fakes can go f**k themselves.

Maybe spreadable butter like Connaught Gold, so that there's no hole in the sandwich, but butter all the way.

No point in living longer if you have to eat muck while doing so.

admiralofthefleet

there is one on sale in the shops in an orange wrapper that says its real butter, has anyone tried it?

Elisabeth Blanctorche

No I would rather not cover my dinner in cows breast milk. Dairy free sunflower spread all the way! http://www.theintolerantgourmet.com/storage/408545b.jpg

Flojo

<---- Flóra

And yes... I do spread easily.