Why is butter so expensive in Britain yet Americans eat it all the time?

[Anonymous No.12923314]

In the UK butter is like a fucking luxury. A small sized tub of Lurpak sets you back about £3.75 and it's then finished within a week. A big butter to last the month is about £12

I just used 100g of butter to bake a cake with my son. Now the darn thing is finished again and i only got it 2 days ago.

Americans are consuming butter daily with no worry about price. I also looked on some American grocery sites and your butter is way cheaper than here considering how much you get through.

[Anonymous No.12923317]

>>12923314
>blended with rapeseed oil
>butter

[Anonymous No.12923318]

>>12923314
If it's expensive, the Irish are exporting most of their Kerry Gold and leaving you with scraps.

[Anonymous No.12923321]

>>12923317
spreadable butter has to be mixed with some vegetable oil to remain spreadable.

[Anonymous No.12923322]

>>12923318
revenge

[Anonymous No.12923324]

A "brick" of butter is like £1.

Lurpak's not even proper butter you daft Yank cunt.

[Anonymous No.12923327]

>>12923314
you can get 250g block at farm foods for 99p i think.

[Anonymous No.12923329]

>>12923314
I got a 500g tub of Countrylife spreadble for £2.50.
I never buy butter full price.

[Anonymous No.12923330]

>>12923314
Butter is taxed heavily in denmark. Maybe non-danish butter is cheaper.

>>12923324
Lurpak makes spreadable butter and proper butter.

[Anonymous No.12923332]

>>12923330

Spreadable butter isn't butter, it's just posh margarine

[Anonymous No.12923337]

>>12923321
do bongs really?

[Anonymous No.12923338]

>>12923332
Yes I know, but Im saying they make both..?

Spreadable is a mixed product, usually the further away from proper butter the cheaper it is.

[Anonymous No.12923343]

>>12923314
Try to buy it in bulk. An individual pound of butter is about $4 for me, but in bulk it drops to $2.50. Also, isn't most of your butter in the UK grass-fed? That keeps prices higher.

[Anonymous No.12923344]

Mate, it's less than a quid for actual butter.
The cunts just stuck this leaflet through my door.

[Anonymous No.12923347]

>>12923337
>do sharts really?

[Anonymous No.12923348]

>>12923314
First of all when we say a food name we don't literally mean that food. For example in America we have milk, which you can get at the farmer's market in Noe Valley or Greenwich Village, and we have Wisconsin Food Corporation Presents: Real Milk™ which is found at grocery stores in Flyoveroxyjesusville USA and is 97% soy fillers and 3% non-therapeutic antibiotics. Of course if you assert that there is any kind of discernible difference between the two, "Real Americans™" will fly off the handle and screech about protectionism and how America-hating AOC communist shitskins don't even understand innovation.

As to butter, and I mean butter not Wisconsin Food Corporation Presents: Real Butter™ (now with 11% more bleach), I usually buy a small tub of local Hudson Valley butter every couple of months. I don't eat that much of it because butter isn't really the ideal fat for most of the kinds of cooking I do.

[Anonymous No.12923352]

>>12923348
>and we have Wisconsin Food Corporation Presents: Real Milk™ which is found at grocery stores in Flyoveroxyjesusville USA and is 97% soy fillers and 3% non-therapeutic antibiotics.
>>12923348
>Wisconsin Food Corporation Presents: Real Butter™ (now with 11% more bleach)
Do you think exaggerating like this makes your argument seem more credible?

[Anonymous No.12923353]

>>12923314
Bruh, either youre trolling or dumb.

Don't use "butter" spread for baking dumbdumb.

Use sticks of pure butter. Sticks are way cheaper and actually what you need when baking.

[Anonymous No.12923354]

>>12923347
haha did I touch a nerve? keep on seething

[Anonymous No.12923358]

>>12923352
Bit early, did you not go to bed last night?

[Anonymous No.12923381]

>>12923324
A brick of decent butter for £1? For a family? You're having a laugh. I live in Birmingham and even the Pakistani and Indian shops don't do butter that fucking cheap

[Anonymous No.12923386]

>>12923327
Never tried Farm Foods as there is none near me. But will look

[Anonymous No.12923392]

>>12923344
There is no farm foods near me but will look next time i'm by one

[Anonymous No.12923401]

>>12923348
>>12923358
>"butter"
>mass shooting jesus soy communism politician
you ok man?

[Anonymous No.12923402]

>>12923321
Or you could you know... Just leave it in a area of the kitchen that has some room temperature.
I.e 17-18 degrees C.

[Anonymous No.12923406]

>>12923386
lidl do lurpak rip off 500g for £1.89 im sure aldi have a rip off too.

[Anonymous No.12923410]

>>12923406
£1.89 is still expensive tho considering it will barely last a week. Americans are getting tubs of butter for under a dollar

[Anonymous No.12923425]

Lurpak is overrated
t. dane

[Anonymous No.12923433]

>>12923401
Now is your cue to say "but at least we're not the south"

[Anonymous No.12923437]

>>12923347
tastes better on toast when her tits are showing

[Anonymous No.12923441]

'the fuck you on about
How much fuckin' butter are you eating that this is a problem

[Anonymous No.12923447]

>>12923410
You telling me you get through 2000 calories a week of JUST BUTTER?

[Anonymous No.12923453]

Reminder that americans don't eat salted butter.

[Anonymous No.12923458]

>>12923453
>no, I couldn't possibly take an extra 0.05g of salt per serving

[Anonymous No.12923480]

At Costco you can get huge boxes of the own brand shit for practically nothing, tastes fine and is about as good as any other butter

The leading brand Land O’ Lakes is also affordable in relatively large quantities at most retailers

[Anonymous No.12923482]

>>12923314
American butter contains Real Butter(TM)

[Anonymous No.12923545]

in the UK i don't understand what butter im supposed to buy

Salted or Unsalted?

some baking recipes specifically say so, but what is normal butter?

[Anonymous No.12923553]

>>12923545
If you’re used to eating salted butter the unsalted stuff will really taste like it needs salt

The rule of thumb is salted for the table, unsalted for baking

[Anonymous No.12923557]

>>12923553
putting on bread/toast is salted right?

[Anonymous No.12923566]

Nobody has ever, ever thrown off a recipe by using salted butter. Nobody's picked up a cake and said, "man this is just too damn salty".

[Anonymous No.12923568]

>>12923482
and sometime it can melt

[Anonymous No.12923571]

>>12923557
yeah

[Anonymous No.12923574]

>>12923447
My kids eat a ton of toast, sandwiches for school everyday etc. I barely eat any

[Anonymous No.12923578]

>>12923566
And even if you're worried about adding too much salt from the salted butter, just cut some salt out from the rest of the recipe to balance it out. If the recipe doesn't call for any extra salt, then it was probably gonna be bland anyways.

[Anonymous No.12923581]

>>12923545
A lot of recipes call for unsalted butter, but then tell you to add salt afterwards. So just go easy on the salt later. I never buy unsalted as its a lot more expensive where Im at for some reason.

>>12923557
For putting on toast you normally buy a "spreadable" butter product. As normal butter is too hard right out of the fridge.

[Anonymous No.12923605]

>>12923581
Bongs usually keep some butter out of the fridge. That's why salted is the default.

[Anonymous No.12923809]

>>12923314
No it doesn't you fucking idiot. Butter costs max £1.75 where I live and I live in a pretty upmarket place and only shop in small shops. You either live in London or you're being scammed.

[Anonymous No.12923833]

>>12923314
typical butter brands in America taste like shit compared to grassfed "organic" shit and imported Euro butter because of factory dairy farms
cows fed a shitty diet of corn producing milk that has to be pasteurized because of present blood/bacteria/pus from unsanitary operations and preservation purposes, mixed with the product of a thousand other cows, shipped long distances, left on the shelf for weeks at a time = shitty dairy

[Anonymous No.12923858]

>>12923402
people who live in colder climates will never have spreadable butter even if they leave it at room temperature.

[Anonymous No.12923875]

>>12923314
massive government subsidies.

[Anonymous No.12923906]

>>12923858
Exactly, my bong kitchen is probably 13-14 degrees celcius right now.
In winter, you'd be lucky to get spreadable vegetable oil, it's fucking cold here.

[Anonymous No.12923913]

>>12923344
*cries in $6.00 sticks in canada*

[Anonymous No.12923974]

You can get butter for £1 from any supermarket if you don't buy Lurpak

Which isn't even fully butter

[Anonymous No.12923975]

>>12923906
Invest in a butter bell and keep it near the kettle, residual'll keep it good

[Anonymous No.12924026]

American butter has a lower butterfat content and more water added to it.

So as with all ingredients and produce, the American version is inferior.

[Anonymous No.12924062]

>>12923314
surely this will get better after brexit!

[Anonymous No.12924079]

>>12923906
do bongs really lack proper heating?

[Anonymous No.12924336]

Why do you piss poor miserable cunts complain about paying for fucking anything bet you pay £6 for a mcdonalds or £40 every week for petrol and don't bat an eyelid