I'm very keen on butter.
I think my very first awareness of butter as a product, was in France as a young 10 year old boy; I noticed that not only did it have a totally different taste to my usual post-war butter (which came from NZ), but it was also a different colour; it was almost white. Even so, there was something very 'haunting' about its flavour.
This has now changed and French butter is very similar to standard English butter, and equally uninteresting.
In France I always used to buy the excellent 'Buerre d'Isigny', but I don't see it on offer as much as I used to. It was excellent.
Meanwhile, here in the UK I have become bored with the blandness of the Sainsbury's butter that I usually buy.
In a recent Sunday Times, there was a breakdown of the very best UK butters, and the one that came out on top was Sainsbury's (yes, them again) 'Taste the Difference', West Country Farmhouse Butter with Maldon Sea Salt. The difference in quality is noticeable at once. It's more expensive of course, but you get what you pay for! You could almost eat this stuff by the spoon-full.
I also always have a small pack of Garlic & Herb butter in the freezer. I'm lazy, I know!
People tend to think of butter as just plain 'Butter', but it's not. Look around and you'll find some really nice butters; it's worth having at least one really good one in the fridge at all times.
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I agree Sainsbury's Taste the Difference is worth paying for as is their organic butter but I prefer the former. The truly awful stuff is the butter with rape seed oil added, Lurpak and similar, terrible stuff, probably fine for softening hard skin on ones feet but it ought never to be eaten.
Oh I agree completely. When I'm eating animal based I eat a lot of butter. The best butter has to be salted. It makes a huge difference to the taste. At the moment the best one is from Lidls. I can eat it big chunks of it, no bread or anything else needed. The strongest tasting butter is from the island of Corfu. I think it's from sheep's milk. It can taint my baking and the kids hate it. But, Greeks love it.
Lurpak is popular here and the most expensive. I agree with Adrian, it's the last brand I'd buy.
I am pleased to say that I have NEVER (knowingly) eaten margarine, or any other of the imitation butters.
I don't think I've ever tried Lurpak; isn't it Danish? We always had NZ butter as children, as I expect post-war UK butter was difficult to buy. But I would normally try to buy British.
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