People eating butter

robfosters · 13 Nov 2021 at 12:29

ThundyCat said:
And Jam ALWAYS before clotted cream on your scones.

You know what’s really good?

Get a nice big lump of butter and mix in a crumbled oxo cube and spread the resulting mixture onto your toast. Delicious.

Jean-F · 13 Nov 2021 at 16:39

Dis86 said:
Yes.

Butter before jam, sure. Butter before peanut butter?! That's just savage.

I bow to your superior knowledge Dis, but my wife always had a couple of crumpets for breakfast, first spread with butter, then add Dairy Lea cream cheese, sometimes she’d switch to first spread the butter then add peanut butter.
When she reached 52 kg (at 5’ 3”) she cast around for advice from her nieces, two with great figures, one slightly overweight.
They suggested, among things like eat more fruit and do more exercise, to stick with the peanut butter if she liked it, but swerve the butter.
She did this for slightly over three weeks, and came down to 48.5 kg, deep joy chez nous.

SexyGreyFox · 13 Nov 2021 at 16:47

ThundyCat said:
And Jam ALWAYS before clotted cream on your scones.

I was at Blists Hill Victorian Town about 3 weeks ago and had scones.
I did one with jam with clotted cream on top and the other with clotted cream and jam on top.
There was no difference except it was easier to put jam on first.

KenyaM · 13 Nov 2021 at 16:50

Lysander said:
Do you know anyone who does this?

Obviously people eat butter as an ingredient, but one of my colleagues asked me to get her a tub of butter from the shops while I was out - OK, no problem - but when I brought it back she proceeded to eat it out of the tub. Is it weird that I've never seen this being done before? Is it common?

it's so weird but maybe that's because most likely, her body lacks certain vitamins that are just in the butter
she should consult a doctor and give a sample of blood for analysis

C Kent · 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38

ThundyCat said:
Is it wrong that I butter my toast before adding peanut butter?

Hell no, that's the correct way! And always crunchy, never smooth.

glenimp617 · 13 Nov 2021 at 18:17

Jam on first, there's simply no need for debate.

...and it's scones not scons

jpaul · 13 Nov 2021 at 18:20

How many zoomers have even eaten a scone (yet alone could make one - not in home economics?) - I'm guessing they appear on the Crown ...
but, otherwise, rapidly disappearing from popular culture/diet as a polarising issue - butter, cream, whatever ..
salt / sugar on porridge ditto, mushy peas ...

modern takes ? butter or salt on popcorn has that caught on at UK cinemas, KFC with w/o gravy

builder22 · 13 Nov 2021 at 18:23

TheOracle said:
...and it's scones not scons

u mean like...scoans not scawn?

if so then naw, it's scauns

any scones are pretty tidy either toasted or microwaved before buttering to let the butter melt in!

Jean-F · 13 Nov 2021 at 20:58

builder22 said:
u mean like...scoans not scawn? if so then naw, it's scauns
any scones are pretty tidy either toasted or microwaved before buttering to let the butter melt in!

Scawn? Scauns? Where are you from, Pitcairn Island?

TheOracle said:
Jam on first, there's simply no need for debate.

...and it's scones not scons

I could care less what goes on them, or what goes on first, but I’m with you all the way with scones, (skones).
Of course, anyone can pronounce it any way that they like, but it will always be skones for me.

builder22 · 13 Nov 2021 at 21:04

Jean-F said:
Scawn? Scauns? Where are you from, Pitcairn Island?

closer to Scone Palace....pronounced scuin!

DXP55 · 13 Nov 2021 at 21:06

robfosters said:
You know what’s really good?

Get a nice big lump of butter and mix in a crumbled oxo cube and spread the resulting mixture onto your toast. Delicious.

Got to try this - it's toast day tomorrow for breakfast (banana and biscuit alternate days) I like my Kerrygold butter.

mrk · 13 Nov 2021 at 21:23

I know a few jokes about butter, I would tell you but you might spread them.

robfosters · 13 Nov 2021 at 21:29

Robbie’s making jokes about butter again. How dairy!

Jean-F · 13 Nov 2021 at 21:34

builder22 said:
closer to Scone Palace....pronounced scuin!

Never been there, but after Googling it I must have been close 30 odd years back, when after dropping some steel at Inverkip Power Station, near Largs, I had to schlep over to Dundee, I remember going near Perth.
Bit more civilised over that side I thought, they spoke a language that I could understand, unlike Glasgow.

SexyGreyFox · 13 Nov 2021 at 23:25

Paul Hollywood has just been on the TV and he called them scons and he's an expert.

mrk · 13 Nov 2021 at 23:31

robfosters said:
Robbie’s making jokes about butter again. How dairy!

Jean-F · 14 Nov 2021 at 00:53

SexyGreyFox said:
Paul Hollywood has just been on the TV and he called them scons and he's an expert.

That’s what Alex Ferguson thought about Italian goalkeeper Massimo Taibi.
After a few months he realised that maybe he’d got it wrong.

fatiain · 14 Nov 2021 at 01:20

SexyGreyFox said:
Paul Hollywood has just been on the TV and he called them scons and he's an expert.

If you pronounce it wrong, the "fastest cake" joke doesn't work. (PH is right)

Also, cream first, you heathens.

Blackjack Davy · 14 Nov 2021 at 03:17

ThundyCat said:
And Jam ALWAYS before clotted cream on your scones.

What you're in hampshire? Nay its strictly devon or cornwall where its either jam first, cream later or the heathens over there who put cream first jam later!

DXP55 · 14 Nov 2021 at 14:45

The wife failed me as we had no oxo cubes in for me to try it mixed with butter to load my toast this morning.