That's nothing, check out Lurpack if you want to see high prices .....
How can 1 brand of butter command a premium when butter is butter & I can't tell the difference so long as its butter???
OK. I can accept that Lurpak is different.Lurpak is actually different.
Does it REALLY taste that much better than butter to make its price a problem?
The only spreadable I have ever been able to eat is "Utterly Butterly" & even that is a last resort. Mrs Lard seems to think that anything with a similar title, in packaging of a similar shape / colour will be acceptable to me. It isn't, I get violent headaches if it isn't the real stuff. Why do all these similar items feel the need to mimick my Utterly Butterly ?I don't think it tastes better, although it definitely tastes different. I'm talking about block butter here, not spreadable. When the price of Lurpak first shot up in mid 2000s, we switched from Lurpak to Aldi butter and after a few days we liked it just as much.
I don't eat spreadable, but with Lurpak spreadable a lot of reviews say that the Aldi knock off tastes just the same and is less than half the price. Last time I checked, the ingredients were identical. I think with spreadable, the difference is smaller anyway, because it's only two thirds actual butter, the rest is oil and water.
Isn't that just the voices in your head doing that?I get violent headaches
Butter is butter, & it shouldn't cost all that much at all. Here I am in the midst of a farming community saying butter should be cheap !.
Eccles cakes, the ones made in Ardwick, are now £2.29, that's almost double pre-furloughs. And the actual cakes have shrunk in size.
Some, like Lurpak spreadable, don't contain water.it's only two thirds actual butter, the rest is oil and water.
Some, like Lurpak spreadable, don't contain water.
Butter (64%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt
Butter (40% (Milk), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt
Water, Butter (26%) (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Lactic Culture (Milk), Milk Protein, Salt