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So having my morning toast (2 slices one butter the other jam or honey) I was thinking. Should I be buttering my toast before I put the honey or jam on. Or just go with the one spread?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:11 am
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Butter.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:19 am
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There is no not.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:21 am
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That you even thought about it is enough.
Delete your account.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:23 am
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Butter first, then peanut butter (spread about 10mm thick) white bread Obvz.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:25 am
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Absolutely. Margarine or low fat spreads are as deadly as diesel cars. Rats don't even recognise them as food and wont eat them, so if it's not good enough for them, it's not good enough for me.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:27 am
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This is a troll right?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:29 am
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My wife does this - she claims that butter is superfluous when you are going to apply jam to toast anyway. I also noticed recently that she only applies butter to one slice of bread when making a sandwich and she has also poisoned my children's mind with the same practices so they now think that I'm the strange one. I suspect that citing this in divorce proceedings will automatically give me custody of the children.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 8:38 am
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i feel like ive potentially been missing out. Will try it tomorrow.

Ive only recently (last couple of years) put butter on my toast for beans on toast!


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:26 am
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I only do butter/margarine on toast, more than anything to combat the dryness of the heated bread. Sandwiches, I don't bother, basically the tub is ~99% MrsNOTG's.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:37 am
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'Spreadable' butter here. What a tart I am..


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:39 am
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Yes, butter it. And make sure you get right to the edges.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:39 am
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I am going to presume you are young but even so, how the hell are you even alive?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:41 am
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Not if subsequently applying another spread.

Hot buttered toast is, however, a delight.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:43 am
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Not if subsequently applying another spread.

so no butter on your honey on toast?!!!!!


 
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Not if subsequently applying another spread.

Hot buttered toast is, however, a delight.


These sort comments are making me see all other posts by the authors in a very different light.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 9:46 am
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[quote=wobbliscott ]Absolutely. Margarine or low fat spreads are as deadly as diesel cars.

Ah the good ole deadly margarine myth - one atom away from plastic (in the same way that hyrodgen peroxide is one atom away from water)

[quote=wobbliscott ]Rats don't even recognise them as food and wont eat them, so if it's not good enough for them, it's not good enough for me.

Rats will eat rotting meat and human faeces though so... 😉


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:00 am
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Always butter my toast, but never spread jam on a whole slice, if I have jam it's just the odd bite where I will spread jam to the bread before I bite it.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:01 am
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Not if subsequently applying another spread.

so no butter on your honey on toast?!!!!!

Correct.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:03 am
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Always butter my toast, but never spread jam on a whole slice, if I have jam it's just the odd bite where I will spread jam to the bread before I bite it.

thats just strange....


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:17 am
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So is more than three dots in an ellipsis... 😉


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:20 am
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If you are going for pedantry points, three dots isn't an ellipsis either, this is …


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:28 am
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where I will spread jam to the bread before I bite it.

This is just weird, i mean how many knives do you get through? You do use a clean knife every time yes?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:34 am
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If you are going for pedantry points, three dots isn't an ellipsis either, this is …

Depends if you're talking Victorian American English, or British English. 😉


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:54 am
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Yes, butter it. And make sure you get right to the edges.

This ^^ it's the law.
Ah the good ole deadly margarine myth - one atom away from plastic (in the same way that hyrodgen peroxide is one atom away from water)

It might as well be plastic, for all the flavour it lacks.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:55 am
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Full butter coverage, while toast is both hot and still rigid, is a pre-requirement of being on this forum.
Please resign with immediate effect.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 10:57 am
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http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp


 
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Honey straight on to toast make the toast go weirdly spiky feeling. Horrible.


 
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Honey straight on to toast make the toast go weirdly spiky feeling. Horrible.

what toast are you using. doesnt on mine


 
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Well whatever bread I happen to have. Generally some kind of wholemeal thing. Of course this isn't an experiment I repeat as I like butter, but when forced to experiment due to a lack of butter that was my experience. Maybe I have a more sensitive mouth?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 11:16 am
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maybe different honey? mines the runny stuff.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 11:31 am
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'Spreadable' butter here. What a tart I am

All butter is spreadable.

Unless you keep it in the fridge, which is akin to keeping consumable liquids in the freezer, like some sort of sadomasochistic pervert.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 11:50 am
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tbh it does become an issue in winter. On soft bread.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 11:52 am
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WHAT? How can this even be a question?


 
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'Spreadable' butter here. What a tart I am

All butter is spreadable.

Unless you keep it in the fridge, which is akin to keeping consumable liquids in the freezer, like some sort of sadomasochistic pervert.

Don't you just use it in slices anyway like a normal person? Much easier to tessellate for full coverage that way.


 
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wobbliscott » Rats don't even recognise them as food and wont eat them, so if it's not good enough for them, it's not good enough for me.

Rats will eat rotting meat and human faeces though so...

They'll only eat the feaces of a butter eater though...


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:03 pm
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butter, peanut butter, strawberry jam and maybe even a little slice of brie for extravagance


 
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Right, whilst we're talking about butter.

I LOVE butter. And I believe it's actually quite good for you, as opposed to other spreads, marg etc.

BUT

I don't buy actual butter because when I come to use it it's either a clarified goo or it's as hard as a house-brick. So I buy the spreadable versions that you can keep in the fridge - Anchor, Lurpak etc.

Am I being a deluded fool in believing these are still as good as real butter. How do they achieve this state of temperature related consistency? Is it by adding a bit of harmless olive oil to the mix, or a load of dangerous chemicals/industrial by-products?


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:05 pm
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Ingredients

Butter (64%) (milk)

Rapeseed oil

Water

Lactic culture (milk)

Salt

There you go.
Over one third not butter.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:11 pm
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I can't believe it's not [all] butter!

because when I come to use it it's either a clarified goo

Turn the heating down & put a jumper on


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:13 pm
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Really it should be called "Buttery Spread" not "Spreadable Butter".


 
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Meh,

Nowt wrong with a bit of Rapeseed Oil and Lactic Culture (whatever that is)

I shall continue plastering my food with the stuff.

Anyone else butter cake? I get some right odd looks doing this, but wtf... it's cake - buttered!


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:17 pm
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What sort of cake?

Fruit cake good, Victoria sponge bad.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:19 pm
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Butter is solid at room temperature. Spreads are made from vegetable oils which are liquid at room temperature. To make a liquid be a stable solid at a temperature it wants to be a liquid, you need to do some pretty heavy manipulation of its molecular structure, which begs the question, what do you end up with and what effect does it have on your body.

Whatever you eat just eat natural stuff that is as close to its natural state as it can be.


 
Posted : 03/08/2017 12:23 pm
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To make a liquid be a stable solid at a temperature it wants to be a liquid, you need to do some pretty heavy manipulation of its molecular structure
Or, you know, mix it with a solid.


 
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