Saturday, September 06, 2008

butter

A banal post about butter.

I was considering a sideways move into recipe blogging and thought about ways of cooking smoked haddock. But as I never really follow recipes or read them, I thought I'd just blog about butter. Plus I've been a bit butter-fingered lately...

When I lived in Wigan and went to the corner shop to buy butter, the lady, (who referred to all the magazines as 'books') would always ask "Do you want best butter love?' You see best butter was butter, but if you didn't stress the best, she'd give you margarine which was cheaper. I've never really liked the taste of margarine, not on bread - despite the fact it is polyunsaturated. Fine to cook with though.
So all these years later, I always examine my butter carefully - especially with the array of spreadables now masquerading as butter. Have to be careful.

So what for you butter or margarine?

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Best butter for me, please

potdoll said...

me too.

my mum calls magazines books too. does my head in.

Near by said...

hub does that

does my head in ;)

John M. said...

Margarine is ok for cooking, but butter is best!

Fake margarine is awful. (Country Crock etc.)

Near by said...

Hi John M!

So butter it is then.

Elinor said...

No butter for me due to cholesterol mayhem and I can't stand margerine so er, nothing for me.

Near by said...

hey welcome back El!

Hope you had a good holiday - want to see those bull horns on fire!


But back to butter - all or nothing 'spose...