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

  • 25-05-2011 10:23AM
    #1
    SparkyTech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭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! :D

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

    What do you use on your toast? 67 votes

    Flora/Benecol/Other 'margarine' type spread
    0% 0 votes
    Utterly Butterly/Dairygold/ Other 'real butter'
    14% 10 votes
    A bit of both, depending on whats in the fridge/my mood and tastes
    65% 44 votes
    Butter? Whats that now? Neither!
    19% 13 votes


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  • #2
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I use Pure dairy free exclusively!


  • #3
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


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


  • #4
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    This. (Yeh bleedin' pansy :pac:)


  • #5
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


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


  • #6
    SparkyTech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭SparkyTech


    chin_grin wrote: »
    This. (Yeh bleedin' fairy :pac:)

    Also equally as nice, ta


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  • #7
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Butter.

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


  • #8
    eilo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭eilo1


    Kerry Gold for the win!

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


  • #9
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


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


  • #10
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭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......


  • #11
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    SparkyTech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭SparkyTech


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


  • #13
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    chin_grin wrote: »
    This. (Yeh bleedin' pansy :pac:)


    Ah you like ziz in Eyaland too?


  • #14
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #17
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,323 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #18
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭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...


  • #19
    Auvers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭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


  • #20
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


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


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  • #22
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Butter Coloured Sandwich Dressing, from Didldidi


  • #23
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭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


  • #24
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,828 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


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


  • #25
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--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


  • #26
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


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


  • #27
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭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!


  • #29
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


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


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  • #31
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭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


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