Butter doesn't taste buttery

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Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

I do not seem to find that problem in St. Louis. The butter is... well
butter and tastes buttery. The margarine is good also. I use the heart
healthy spreads and they are okay also. Last time I bought butter here it
was $2.89 a pound for Land O Lakes but it was on sale.

Michael

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Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

ever notice how bananas don't taste like banana candy?

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Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?

The USDA has recently outlawed the use of artificially
butter-flavored grain for dairy cows.

Now the diaries are in a bind since they can't get any
naturally-derived butter flavor. Apparently all the butter flavor
has been bred out of the cows over the last few decades as a
result of feedlot efficient programs and "innovations".

The Meat Lobby really backed themselves into a corner this time.
Butter here in Texas has reached an all-time low at $2.35/lb in an
attempt to keep the masses appeased while they devise a solution
for the problem.

-sw

Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss
fat and the color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?

If this is something you noticed recently,
and over a relatively short period of time,
it could be agnosia (loss of some of your
ability to sense smell, possibly specific
to certain smells but not all smells).

This is a very unusual symptom, and often
it is a sign of a brain tumor. (Of course,
if you've had a recent sharp blow to the head,
there's no reason to speculate about scary
certain-to-die scenarios like that one.)

Cerebral aneurysm is another possibility.
Google that (+ agnosia), and make your own
informed judgement about whether you need
medical attention. (You need treatment
immediately, if that's what it is.)

Do you eat beef?

Hope this helps! :-)

Are you saying that you need to have grass-fed cows in order to get
good tasting butter?

Steve Wertz said:

Now the diaries are in a bind since they can't get any
naturally-derived butter flavor.

Say that line 5 times. BTW, just exactly is butter flavor

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Butter here in Texas has reached an all-time low at $2.35/lb in an
attempt to keep the masses appeased.....

Have 'em sell it in CA where the price is typically $5+ lb. OTOH, our
butter actually tastes like butter.

nb

Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

This is my opinion only. We use butter either salted or unsalted. We
do not use margarine for any reason. We hate going to a restaurant and
getting margarine on our toast for breakfast. It is always sent back.
For us, margaine tastes like motor oil or worse. As mentioned we use
two types of butter. The unsalted butter is best for baking and tastes
somewhat sweet. Sometimes we make this ourselves from heavy cream. It
is very good infused with herbs for different uses. The salted butter
is used for buttering breads or on top of veggies. As far as costs, I'm
in Canada so pay about $3.50 per lb of butter in the store.

The Bubbo said:

Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

ever notice how bananas don't taste like banana candy?

But, banana popsicles sorta taste like bananas and the look sorta like
bananas and they are yellos 😉

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Are you saying that you need to have grass-fed cows in order to get
good tasting butter?

Not unless it's butter-flavored grass.

I don't think you'll find many dairies in the US grass-feeding
milkers. You'd have to round them all up to milk them.

-sw

~patches~ said:

But, banana popsicles sorta taste like bananas and the look sorta like
bananas and they are yellos 😉

Speaking of bananas... Be sure to take your meds tonight.

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

~patches~ said:

But, banana popsicles sorta taste like bananas and the look sorta like
bananas and they are yellos 😉

Speaking of bananas... Be sure to take your meds tonight.

-sw

What is it with you and meds? You have a serious problem or are a true
druggie. I thought you had me killfiled?

~patches~ said:

Steve Wertz said:

~patches~ said:

But, banana popsicles sorta taste like bananas and the look sorta like
bananas and they are yellos 😉

Speaking of bananas... Be sure to take your meds tonight.

What is it with you and meds?

I hardly ever use the "meds" line. The bananas thing was too
good to pass up since I just used it on you in another thread, and
here you are, posting about bananas already.

Was it with your newsreader that it likes to insert another blank
line after each one it sees? Has it gone bananas, too?

Being the kind poster <cough> I am, I usually remove them. But I
only have so much kindness and I'd hate to use it all up on you.

-sw

~patches~ said:

Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

This is my opinion only. We use butter either salted or unsalted. We
do not use margarine for any reason. We hate going to a restaurant
and getting margarine on our toast for breakfast. It is always sent
back. For us, margaine tastes like motor oil or worse. As mentioned
we use two types of butter. The unsalted butter is best for baking
and tastes somewhat sweet. Sometimes we make this ourselves from
heavy cream. It is very good infused with herbs for different uses. The
salted butter is used for buttering breads or on top of veggies. As far as
costs, I'm in Canada so pay about $3.50 per lb of butter in
the store.

I am totally with you on the margarin 'opinion'.
The flavour of butter is directly related to the food the cow eats.
Tasteless butter is the product of processed hi gain amimal feed (note -
feed - not food).
I find that the taste of butter in Honduras is much richer. This would be
because the dairy cows there are pastured in the 'old fashioned' way - no
processed feed.

Ken.

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Quoted message said:

Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

This is my opinion only. We use butter either salted or unsalted. We
do not use margarine for any reason. We hate going to a restaurant and
getting margarine on our toast for breakfast. It is always sent back.
For us, margaine tastes like motor oil or worse. As mentioned we use
two types of butter. The unsalted butter is best for baking and tastes
somewhat sweet. Sometimes we make this ourselves from heavy cream. It
is very good infused with herbs for different uses. The salted butter
is used for buttering breads or on top of veggies. As far as costs, I'm
in Canada so pay about $3.50 per lb of butter in the store.

I agree; you will never find margarine in my house. Any product that is
naturally a liquid, gets added chemicals to make it a butter-flavored
cream-colored solid, just doesn't appeal to me. The only "benefit" a stick
of margarine has over a stick of butter is that it spreads more easily on a
piece of bread. Then again, you can always get whipped butter.

kili

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I don't think you'll find many dairies in the US grass-feeding
milkers. You'd have to round them all up to milk them.

That is how it works in other countries.
Cows go out in the morning.
The pens get cleaned, the cows eat grass and hay.
The cows come in for milking
The cows go out for grass and hay.
The cows come in at night. It is what dairy farmers do.
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Quoted message said:

I don't think you'll find many dairies in the US grass-feeding
milkers. You'd have to round them all up to milk them.

That is how it works in other countries.
Cows go out in the morning.
The pens get cleaned, the cows eat grass and hay.
The cows come in for milking
The cows go out for grass and hay.
The cows come in at night. It is what dairy farmers do.
--
Carl Robson

I recall it that the cows come in for milking around 4pm, then they stayed
in eating hay at the stall for the night. Must be a memory lapse.
Dee Dee
Dee Dee

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Quoted message said:

I don't think you'll find many dairies in the US grass-feeding
milkers. You'd have to round them all up to milk them.

That is how it works in other countries.
Cows go out in the morning.
The pens get cleaned, the cows eat grass and hay.
The cows come in for milking
The cows go out for grass and hay.
The cows come in at night. It is what dairy farmers do.
--
Carl Robson

I recall it that the cows come in for milking around 4pm, then they stayed
in eating hay at the stall for the night. Must be a memory lapse.
Dee Dee
Dee Dee

Maybe right. Been a while (about 6-7 years) since I lived in the sticks.
But I don't think it would be legal (humane laws) to keep them in all
day.
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Carl Robson
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Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

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Is there something wrong with the butter in supermarkets?
It pretty much just tastes like a slab of nearly tastelss fat and the
color is almost pure white.
There's very much a lack of buttery flavor and yellow color.
What's up with that?
Margarine tastes more buttery than the butter.
Do you have to churn your own butter at home to get the real deal?
If I'm going to pay $4 for 4 sticks of butter, I should get something
that tastes good and buttery, not just solidified milk fat.

Butter IS milk fat. Maybe you could leave it out of the fridge for
about ten days.
The fact that you even know what the margarine tastes like tells me
you're a pig, and should just be slopped. The sentence,"Margarine
tastes more buttery than the butter," is what I've come to expect from
this NG, but still.

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I do not seem to find that problem in St. Louis. The butter is... well
butter and tastes buttery. The margarine is good also. I use the heart
healthy spreads and they are okay also. Last time I bought butter here it
was $2.89 a pound for Land O Lakes but it was on sale.

"Healthy spreads" might well be healthy, but they are no substitute for
butter. Margarine is [censored]. Note: In StL, Schnuck's has LoL butter on
sale for $2/# this week, so time to stock up.

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Michael

--Bryan

scott123 said:

Supermarket butter, for the most part, is inedible. I've taste tested
just about every brand available. The only brand that is consistency
decent is Land O' Lakes. For my area (NE US), that's the best. If
you're willing to pay a little bit more, the European butters are an

In Davis, CA, the superkarkets had good butter such as Challenge, The
Danish Creamery.