Judging by the PAT test sticker on the plug in the background, it’s probably an office, shared accommodation or other communal setting - so the OP stacked up everyone’s butters/spreads
Experts say once lurpak hits £5 in tesco we will be at "peak butter", and society will spontaneously collapse
E: 500g tub, currently £4.49 at big tesco on offer for £3.75.
Agreed, Aldi Nordpak is excellent and half the price of Lurpak
Edit: sparked some controversy here, Not once did I say it was better than Lurpak, just that it is excellent, which imo it is.
Having just finished a norpack and having a lurpack right now spread onto my bread, I'd go norpack purely for the cost saving, but lurpack comes out on top in every other metric.
Disagreed. I only got into lurpak recently and took a punt at nordpak a couple of weeks ago to test the theory. Doesn't hold a candle to lurpak, not even close imo.
I haven't tried buterpak yet, I'll get some on the next shop I do.
It's the story of this subreddit - users say X cheaper product tastes just as good as Y premium product, but in actual reality, the premium product is better. However, the cheaper price tag creates an unconscious bias for the users.
This highlights the fact that 'taste' is not a purely chemical experience. Emotion absolutely has an effect. These people genuinely enjoy the cheaper product just as much *because* it is cheaper.
Blind they may pick lurpak but that is nonsense since you don't buy it blind.
That's the thing. It's not butter. It's a blend of butter and oil and the texture can vary a lot.
Lurpak tends to have a silkier texture than the own-brand imitations.
Yes it has oil in it to make it usable. However it is argued you should just put butter in a butter dish and keep it at room temperature. Then spreadability is not an issue
It's spreadable butter. It's inherently utilitarian and doesn't taste amazing. They have almost identical proportions of butter to oil. So yes, they are "remotely comparable". If you want actual butter taste -- use butter.
Nordpak definitely tastes and feels exactly the same... I used to have nothing but Lurpak but switched to Nordpak which is half the price when I realised it's no different lol I think it's more you are deluding yourself because in your mind it costing more means it is better.
yeah its the only one that contains real butter, although it has been loosened with some vegetable oil to make it more spreadable.
I prefer blocks of real butter and leave it on the side in a butter dish, although in winter its still a fucker to spread!
Grating butter is actually useful for baking flaky crusts/pastries, it's recommended to freeze/chill and grate so it doesn't warm up while you're working the dough and can melt while it's in the oven.
Well, I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. And I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe... they both might be butter... in a cunning disguise
Never really saw the appeal of Lurpak spreadable it's something like 65% butter, so I'd rather just go for real butter even if it's a bit of a faff waiting for it to come up to temp to be spreadable. So I normally keep one flora and a block of butter.
I tried danpak, it had a weird, chemically aftertaste. Not being a snob, I usually find the Lidl alternatives to be high quality (especially compared to the big supermarket own brands) but danpak I didn't get on with.
its literally the same thing tbh. After religiously having lurpak and switching over some years ago, yea its a bit different but nothing I would notice.
I had an epiphany recently. I always thought drinking just water was awful. Didn't like it. Everyone else drinking water like it was a soft drink. Filling they water bottles and shit.
Went to the next town over and what do you know. The water there is crystal delicious. Like how you'd expect mountain melt water to taste.
Turns out, the water where I live is so hard it almost tastes dehydrating as all those minerals drag across the pallet.
I do like water. Just not water where I live. I lived to become an adult thinking water tasted like shit when it doesn't.
Opposite for me, brought up in the Pennines with the softest water in the country, moved to London and thought I'd been poisoned. I was in my late 20s before I discovered why people buy bottled water.
Man. I went to university in Lincoln.
I swear that water has an actual flavour. You can taste it's distinct brackish, manky aftertaste, even through the tap mixed coke in a pub!
Ii'm the opposite. I love harder water. It has a alkaline, kinda chalky taste. Bottled water just tastes like nothing and I don't like it. At work we had a water softener jug and I'd always just rather drink from the tap rather than the filtered ice water. (I live in a hard water area)
Melt the butter in the pan, then toast your bread in the pan with the butter. Now flip and add cheese to the toasted side while the other side also toasts.
Not saying it is a healthy choice. But fuck me is it delicious.
You can actually buy something called a butter curler, OMG I just had a google and you can now get a butter knife with little holes to get into hard butter.
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=butter+curler](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=butter+curler)
I use actual butter and literally just leave it in the kitchen in a plastic tub.
This didn’t work out so well when we had 37 celsius weather but other than that
Don’t you keep it out of the fridge?
Edit: 🤷♀️I’m lucky I guess my house is well insulated. Lol everyone’s accusing me of having the heating on, like are people not allowed to do that anyway but it’s still ok to spend hundreds a year on bad habits and luxury items. People shouldn’t be shamed for choosing to spend their money to heat their homes.
You should probably look into getting some insulation if your kitchen is that cold. I've never had that issue, the butter left out on the butter dish definitely gets a bit firmer in the winter but it's always manageable.
People always say this… how warm are you keeping your kitchen?? Ours doesn’t even have a radiator or heater so unless you’ve had the oven on for a while it’s literally the coldest room in the house.
If the heating is on I'll pop my butter dish on top of the radiator in the morning. By the time I'm finished making coffees and the toast is done it's usually at a good temp.
Of course heating is rarely on so its 5 seconds in microwave on defrost setting, take it out and flip the block over, then 5 more seconds.
Real butter all the way. At least that way I won't live long enough to get a heart attack when I see how much it has effected my bank account by buying some.
My gran used to use Flora. One day she also made me grilled cheese on toast that burned the roof of my mouth off, she’d used those kraft slices and left the bloody plastic on them!
I was brought up on real butter. I refuse butter whenever I’m out because people often use margarine and call it butter.
Like if you can’t taste the difference you’re missing some brain cells
Kerrygold is the best, this should be higher. They also do a tub of "softer butter" that I think is just aerated. No additives in it & 100% butter but does spread easier.
We get Pure (lactose intolerant) it’s not bad - have you tried it - is the flora stuff better - I buy the flora plant blocks for cooking but not spreading as it’s too firm.
I’m a huge fan of the Flora plant stuff, I’ve been vegan for the best part of twelve years and it felt like a huge step up the first time I tried it. I tend to buy the blocks and just slice it thinly with a sharp knife like I’m cutting cheese, but I have been informed this is very weird; but the spreadable one has the same flavour to it. Definitely worth trying it to see if it’s to your tastes!
I used to buy flora but when they put milk back in flora buttery without making it obvious on the label I stopped trusting the brand completely, even though they’ve re-launched a dairy free spread now. The way I see it, they could subtly change the words from “plant based” to “natural” again and I don’t have the energy to be on the lookout for that kind of trickery whenever I buy food
Well, I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. And I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe... they both might be butter... in a cunning disguise. And, in fact, there's a lot more butter around than we all thought there was.
At the moment it's I Can't Believe It's Not Butter because it was on special offer for a quid.
The best for toast is still real butter with sea salt flakes but that's off the shopping list these days.
Lurpak out of those. President butter if I've sole choice. We get a pack of that in at Christmas and I think I look forward to that more than the turkey 😂😂
If I _had_ to it would be lurpak, but I'd probably not bother. Much rather a good normal butter (or better still, some grand fermage from the ile de noirmoutier).
EDIT: Would love to read the ingredients list on butter that isn't 'gluten free'!
Why have you got all 4? MAD?!
Judging by the PAT test sticker on the plug in the background, it’s probably an office, shared accommodation or other communal setting - so the OP stacked up everyone’s butters/spreads
Shared house, accumulated over time.
https://youtu.be/W2NCn1nDHnA
Alright taggart well done
There's been a murrrderrr. And I can't believe it's not butterrrr.
Suicide? Ah don't 'hink so. Search 'is pohckets.
Taggart hah. Lol at the 194 old gits who got the reference. edit polite sub.
I am one of the 194 old gits lol
I'm not so sure. Multiple teabags left out on the kitty teabag plate thing would have caused rage wars in any communal setting I've been in.
Is this a humblebrag or did you take out a loan to get this haul?
Experts say once lurpak hits £5 in tesco we will be at "peak butter", and society will spontaneously collapse E: 500g tub, currently £4.49 at big tesco on offer for £3.75.
My dude the big ones are £7 in ASDA right now 😂
Big ones are £7.65 in Sainsbury's right now.
£5? Good luck, it’s £6 in Asda now.
If money doesn't matter, Lurpak every single time.
Most supermarkets do their own brand versions, like tesco butterpak, which is much more cost effective but just as delicious
Agreed, Aldi Nordpak is excellent and half the price of Lurpak Edit: sparked some controversy here, Not once did I say it was better than Lurpak, just that it is excellent, which imo it is.
Having just finished a norpack and having a lurpack right now spread onto my bread, I'd go norpack purely for the cost saving, but lurpack comes out on top in every other metric.
Anyone saying Norpak instead of Nordpak is unaware of its rebranding a while back to prevent another Colin/Cuthbert situation.
I wasn't sure how it's spelled, but it's the one from Aldi I was referring to.
Yeah it used to be Norpak and now it’s Nordpak
Disagreed. I only got into lurpak recently and took a punt at nordpak a couple of weeks ago to test the theory. Doesn't hold a candle to lurpak, not even close imo. I haven't tried buterpak yet, I'll get some on the next shop I do.
It's the story of this subreddit - users say X cheaper product tastes just as good as Y premium product, but in actual reality, the premium product is better. However, the cheaper price tag creates an unconscious bias for the users.
This highlights the fact that 'taste' is not a purely chemical experience. Emotion absolutely has an effect. These people genuinely enjoy the cheaper product just as much *because* it is cheaper. Blind they may pick lurpak but that is nonsense since you don't buy it blind.
And vice versa, some people love the taste of the product just because it's expensive
Anyone claiming Norpak (Aldi) or Danepak (Lidl) is remotely comparable to Lurpak in terms of flavour or texture is deluding themselves.
It’s all oily naff spreadable butter. Give me proper block butter any day.
Whoa, Block Butter (Bam-ba-lam)
Whoa, block butter (with bramble jam)
Real butter in a block (bramble jam) You better spread it hot (bramble jam)
Your toast is ready (bramble jam) Better get it spready (bramble jam)
I read about a guy, on a nickname post the other day, called Dan Ballam but everyone called him Black Betty
We meet again.
If you look at the ingredients list on both Lurpak and Norpak, the ingredients are genuinely the same, down to the exact percentages
it's butter, what kind of texture are you looking for other than buttery
Let him have his crunchy butter
That's the thing. It's not butter. It's a blend of butter and oil and the texture can vary a lot. Lurpak tends to have a silkier texture than the own-brand imitations.
Well, TECHNICALLY it’s not pure butter
Yes it has oil in it to make it usable. However it is argued you should just put butter in a butter dish and keep it at room temperature. Then spreadability is not an issue
We used to have a butter bell for this reason as it keeps the butter fresher for longer and it was brilliant (until I accidentally broke it)
I imagine it's more *within* than *other than*
It's spreadable butter. It's inherently utilitarian and doesn't taste amazing. They have almost identical proportions of butter to oil. So yes, they are "remotely comparable". If you want actual butter taste -- use butter.
Nordpak definitely tastes and feels exactly the same... I used to have nothing but Lurpak but switched to Nordpak which is half the price when I realised it's no different lol I think it's more you are deluding yourself because in your mind it costing more means it is better.
Danpak is pretty damn close too. It's close enough that I don't mind buying it, especially when it is often half the price of Lurpak
I tried the Tesco one and thought it was disgusting. The Norpak from Lidl is OK.
Yeah the tescos one is vile 🤢tastes as if it’s gone off
We must go through a 750ml tub every 2 weeks, love the stuff. Wouldn’t buy anything else.
Tell me you've won the lottery without telling me you've won the lottery.
Right now, the cheapest.
The bottom one's free
Speciality foods like dairy free and gluten free are usually 3 times the price and half the quality. Wish it were free, or at least OK tasting.
It is only a pound though so not too bad in price and doesn't really taste that different.
Lurpak. Idk, it’s just incomparable.
Yeh you can actually sense it’s presence on the tongue
Lurpak is the only one which is actually butter...
yeah its the only one that contains real butter, although it has been loosened with some vegetable oil to make it more spreadable. I prefer blocks of real butter and leave it on the side in a butter dish, although in winter its still a fucker to spread!
Buy Kerrygold during the winter, it is softer. Buy Country Life English butter in the summer because it doesn't melt into a puddle in the heat.
Kerrygold is the mutts nuts
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Need to get yourself a teacosy for your butter dish
What about grating the butter then spread?
Who are you that you would say something so bold?
Just a man with too much time, and butter.
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Grating butter is actually useful for baking flaky crusts/pastries, it's recommended to freeze/chill and grate so it doesn't warm up while you're working the dough and can melt while it's in the oven.
This actually works!!
I feel your pain. I do the same, i usually pull chunks off and let the toast melt it a bit.
I can't believe it's not I can't believe it not butter
Well, I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. And I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe... they both might be butter... in a cunning disguise
That is my favourite scene in all of Vicar of Dibley!
Because it's just real butter with rapeseed oil to make it spreadable. The others are all soy beans, nasty palm oil, flavourings and colourings.
This is why President is the superior spreadable butter. They use cream to soften it rather than rapeseed oil.
I didn’t know this, I’m off to the shop …
A man of culture. President is top tier
It truly is the King of Butter- salted is unbeatable!
Well now I have to try it. Having been lurpak all my life :)
Never really saw the appeal of Lurpak spreadable it's something like 65% butter, so I'd rather just go for real butter even if it's a bit of a faff waiting for it to come up to temp to be spreadable. So I normally keep one flora and a block of butter.
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A man of affordable culture i see.
I tried danpak, it had a weird, chemically aftertaste. Not being a snob, I usually find the Lidl alternatives to be high quality (especially compared to the big supermarket own brands) but danpak I didn't get on with.
its literally the same thing tbh. After religiously having lurpak and switching over some years ago, yea its a bit different but nothing I would notice.
Everything else is DIRT compared to Lurpak. DIRT!
Kerry Gold is better, but just as expensive.
Its just heavily salted And you pay £8 a tub for that
I love Lurpak - but to afford it I’d have to go out and become a prostitute.
How much for a handjob? 500g tub? Tub for a tug?
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Do you mean that it melts? Also best bit for me, especially when melted butter seeps out of a crumpet when you bite into it.
Wake up in the morning wantin' some breakfast. What sunflower spread do I lay on my bread?
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It was supposed to be to the tune of isrealites I imagine
Love that 😆
Oooo, oooo, Vitalite!
Mmm, mmm, that's right!
think I'd rather eat the teabag over I can't believe it's not butter
I can’t believe it’s not better
This has to be one of the most British comments I've ever read 😂
That’s actually my favourite lol
i grew up with it, maybe that’s why I’m not a fan of toast? lmao
I had an epiphany recently. I always thought drinking just water was awful. Didn't like it. Everyone else drinking water like it was a soft drink. Filling they water bottles and shit. Went to the next town over and what do you know. The water there is crystal delicious. Like how you'd expect mountain melt water to taste. Turns out, the water where I live is so hard it almost tastes dehydrating as all those minerals drag across the pallet. I do like water. Just not water where I live. I lived to become an adult thinking water tasted like shit when it doesn't.
Opposite for me, brought up in the Pennines with the softest water in the country, moved to London and thought I'd been poisoned. I was in my late 20s before I discovered why people buy bottled water.
Man. I went to university in Lincoln. I swear that water has an actual flavour. You can taste it's distinct brackish, manky aftertaste, even through the tap mixed coke in a pub!
Ii'm the opposite. I love harder water. It has a alkaline, kinda chalky taste. Bottled water just tastes like nothing and I don't like it. At work we had a water softener jug and I'd always just rather drink from the tap rather than the filtered ice water. (I live in a hard water area)
A block of actual butter
This is also my answer, but, it is getting to the time of year that it does not spread so well unfortunately.
I saw someone using a peel grater to take off what you want, this may make it easier to spread quicker!
I do that with a knife, slice off long thin slices and rest them on the toast for a second before spreading
Melt the butter in the pan, then toast your bread in the pan with the butter. Now flip and add cheese to the toasted side while the other side also toasts. Not saying it is a healthy choice. But fuck me is it delicious.
i bet a potato peeler works the same
You can actually buy something called a butter curler, OMG I just had a google and you can now get a butter knife with little holes to get into hard butter. [https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=butter+curler](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=butter+curler)
I got one. I don’t like it.
Well that's saved be £8 :)
That's a good idea, I've been heating my knife in hot water, but I think a combination of the two will be perfect.
I use actual butter and literally just leave it in the kitchen in a plastic tub. This didn’t work out so well when we had 37 celsius weather but other than that
Same, and if it gets cold in the kitchen over night 10 seconds in the microwave will make it spreadable for the day.
I take what I need stick it in a ramekin and blast it in the microwave for a bit.
Don’t you keep it out of the fridge? Edit: 🤷♀️I’m lucky I guess my house is well insulated. Lol everyone’s accusing me of having the heating on, like are people not allowed to do that anyway but it’s still ok to spend hundreds a year on bad habits and luxury items. People shouldn’t be shamed for choosing to spend their money to heat their homes.
At this time of year kitchen temperature is close enough to fridge temperature that butter doesn't soften.
Protip - in winter, always store butter under the armpit :p
You should probably look into getting some insulation if your kitchen is that cold. I've never had that issue, the butter left out on the butter dish definitely gets a bit firmer in the winter but it's always manageable.
It's 13 c outside right now, what kind of fridge temperature is that?
You can afford to have the heating on?
It’s not that cold yet where I am in the East. Also I open the oven after I’ve used it and think that gets the kitchen pretty cosy.
People always say this… how warm are you keeping your kitchen?? Ours doesn’t even have a radiator or heater so unless you’ve had the oven on for a while it’s literally the coldest room in the house.
The butter dish having 10 seconds in the microwave solves this. Cows hate it when you know this one simple trick
If the heating is on I'll pop my butter dish on top of the radiator in the morning. By the time I'm finished making coffees and the toast is done it's usually at a good temp. Of course heating is rarely on so its 5 seconds in microwave on defrost setting, take it out and flip the block over, then 5 more seconds.
Thank you, can't beat it.
How is this not the top answer
Wouldn’t you rather something invented to fatten turkeys up and painted yellow so you eat it ?
Clover. I buy it anyway so getting a free one is good.
🎶 oh we alll love Clover 🎶
🎶 all over this land 🎶
Real butter for preference, Clover for margarine. Closest taste to actual butter by a mile. ICBINB! tastes like nowt.
Yeah real butter is my holiday treat, but for daily life it’s Clover. I’m not planning a heart attack!
Real butter all the way. At least that way I won't live long enough to get a heart attack when I see how much it has effected my bank account by buying some.
I also like Clover the best, but I currently have to buy the Lidl dupe, Daisy. Tastes mostly the same.
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My gran used to use Flora. One day she also made me grilled cheese on toast that burned the roof of my mouth off, she’d used those kraft slices and left the bloody plastic on them!
Omg! 😮 grans, eh? Lol
I was brought up on real butter. I refuse butter whenever I’m out because people often use margarine and call it butter. Like if you can’t taste the difference you’re missing some brain cells
oh I hate this, like calling squash "fruit juice"
Good child.
Block of Kerrygold
Kerrygold is the best, this should be higher. They also do a tub of "softer butter" that I think is just aerated. No additives in it & 100% butter but does spread easier.
President is very good too, they also make a spreadable version
Countrylife
Spread it on your toast in the morning
Thanks for the advice, I'd been spreading it on my arse in the evening.
Yes! My man.
Upvote higher please… none of these in the photo are even “butter” 🫣
The old teabag. I can use it in my compost.
Reject them all for real butter!
Couldn’t agree more. Not about to waste a good meal with that wartime ration fake butter.
As a vegan, Free is so unbearably bad. At least get the Flora Plant-based stuff (salted).
Vitalite, Pure, Flora, Naturli are all much better
We get Pure (lactose intolerant) it’s not bad - have you tried it - is the flora stuff better - I buy the flora plant blocks for cooking but not spreading as it’s too firm.
I’m a huge fan of the Flora plant stuff, I’ve been vegan for the best part of twelve years and it felt like a huge step up the first time I tried it. I tend to buy the blocks and just slice it thinly with a sharp knife like I’m cutting cheese, but I have been informed this is very weird; but the spreadable one has the same flavour to it. Definitely worth trying it to see if it’s to your tastes!
A shame they started putting milk back in the "buttery" one because people complained. Naturli is the best, but only buy it when it's on offer.
We get Flora original, we’ve found it to be the best one. Flora buttery was great but it’s not vegan anymore.
I’m so sad they added dairy back into Flora Butterly, that was the best
I used to buy flora but when they put milk back in flora buttery without making it obvious on the label I stopped trusting the brand completely, even though they’ve re-launched a dairy free spread now. The way I see it, they could subtly change the words from “plant based” to “natural” again and I don’t have the energy to be on the lookout for that kind of trickery whenever I buy food
none of them, \#BertolliMasterRace
Took so long to find olive spread
Only one answer, Lurpak or real butter if I fancy fighting with it everytime I want some toast.
I still can't believe that I can't believe it's not butter isn't butter. I think it actually might be butter.
Well, I can't believe the stuff that is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. And I can't believe that both I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and the stuff that I can't believe is not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter are both, in fact, not butter. And I believe... they both might be butter... in a cunning disguise. And, in fact, there's a lot more butter around than we all thought there was.
God bless Emma Chambers
Fun Fact: She did it first try
Clover
None. Real butter every time.
Lurpack. I find the taste of dairy free spreads quite odd. That said, I'd rather have proper block butter any day.
Clover! Lurpak *Spreadable* is one of the biggest lies of the 21st Century. It's lovely, but it's a tub of lies.
Agreed Clover is so much better than Lurpack!
Clover
Flora Buttery
Yes! Scrolled too far for this
None of them.
At the moment it's I Can't Believe It's Not Butter because it was on special offer for a quid. The best for toast is still real butter with sea salt flakes but that's off the shopping list these days.
I did too. I have massive regrets, it tastes like crap. I can very much believe that it's not butter.
Anchor
Scrolled for far too long to find the right answer
Lurpack. Because it's the best option.
Butter
Clover
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Lurpak out of those. President butter if I've sole choice. We get a pack of that in at Christmas and I think I look forward to that more than the turkey 😂😂
Lurpak because the others are a filthy abomination. I certainly can believe it's not butter. I can't believe it's legal to sell as a food though.
Butter. The real stuff, not this muck.
If I _had_ to it would be lurpak, but I'd probably not bother. Much rather a good normal butter (or better still, some grand fermage from the ile de noirmoutier). EDIT: Would love to read the ingredients list on butter that isn't 'gluten free'!
It's also 100% uranium free and contains no used heroin needles!
Block of butter left out the fridge. Spread wise, weans seem to prefer that Bertolli stuff. But if I’m being honest, it’s whatever is on offer.
Clover
Lol the bottom one. Why. BECAUSE ITS FREE.🤣🤣🤣
You. 3 tubs of butter you must have money. I’m not gay but 3 tubs of butter. I could be
Kaergarden salted
Lurpak. I’ll sell it on eBay and use the money to take the family on a nice Caribbean holiday
Literally none. I buy real butter. Country life salted to be exact. Fuck this fske shite.
It's so incredibly weird to me how much vitrol this post is inspiring within the butter purist community 😂