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Why is it so prevalent in the grocery store now? Most of the options come with butter cut with canola or olive oils (most likely cheap OO and not EVOO). I'll be damned if I'm ever going to buy butter cut with cheap oils so that food companies can make more profits by pushing inferior products than the real thing
I buy Land O'lakes butter w/olive oil to spread on toast etc. It spreads easily and is a healthy alternative to the dreaded margarine. Otherwise I buy pure butter, which as the poster above me noted, is widely available.
I buy real butter to, If you have it in moderation it isn't that bad for you. I mean it's sweet cream and salt. I could never stand that country crap in the big tub. My grandmother bought that, yuck!!!
It's called product diversification. And if people didn't buy it, it wouldn't still be on the market.
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I'll be damned if I'm ever going to buy butter cut with cheap oils so that food companies can make more profits by pushing inferior products than the real thing
Then don't. Plain ol' butter hasn't disappeared, has it?
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Originally Posted by lubby
I could never stand that country crap in the big tub. My grandmother bought that, yuck!!!
You're talking about margarine, and margarine is not what the OP is talking about; s/he is talking about butter that's been blended with canola or olive oil in order to make it spreadable at colder temperatures.
It's called product diversification. And if people didn't buy it, it wouldn't still be on the market.
Then don't. Plain ol' butter hasn't disappeared, has it?
You're talking about margarine, and margarine is not what the OP is talking about; s/he is talking about butter that's been blended with canola or olive oil in order to make it spreadable at colder temperatures.
to me butter mixed with oil might as well be margarine. it's not real butter plain and simple.
I just checked ours again, ingredients: MILK, I guess it isn't mixed with any oils. As for what is healthy, what is ok and what to keep away from: we used margarine (all kinds for years) but since about 2000 or so, we switched back to butter. Unless I am doing a lot of baking (holiday time) we only use about a lb a month, I really don't think the butter is going to kill us.
I just buy the cheapest generic brand, and it always turns out to be 100% real butter. What does it say on the label of the ones that are cut with oils? I've never seen one.
I've tried to google the product you are talking about, and can't get any hits using any keywords I can think of. Give us some more hints.
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