Buttergate

[Eric B]

Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?

Canadians say that the consistency of local butter has changed. Experts may have found the culprit.

www.bbc.com

That does it; I'm not going to Canada until they fix their butter (or it gets warmer)....

 

[bbodb1]

..and their ketchup!

 

[clifffaith]

Anyone remember when "summer butter" was more yellow than "winter butter"?

 

[Eric B]

When I lived in Italy, there was a significant seasonal difference in the mozzarella, too.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I can't believe it's butter.

 

[Eric B]

I can believe it’s not butter.

 

[PigsDad]

Anyone remember when "summer butter" was more yellow than "winter butter"?

We get milk from a local dairy, and we can tell by the taste when the cows are let out to the pasture the first time in the spring.

Kurt

 

["Roger"]

An interesting story on NPR...

Buttergate

... in which Canadians are experiencing harder butter that does not spread well. The chief suspect (not proven) is an increased use of palm oil and derivatives in cow feed. Hard butter, would certainly be a nuisance, but what would really get to me is non-foaming milk experienced in British Columbia. My morning cappuccino at risk! Yikes!

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

..and their ketchup!

ketchup
?
Canadian Food additive rules do not allow corn syrup in ketchup.
(ie) - ketchupy or ketchup style is required if corn syrup is an ingredient.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Big Canadian question is whether raisins should be in homemade BUTTER TARTS

 

[pedro47]

This is a social issue and I do not understand this thread. IMHO.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

This is a social issue and I do not understand this thread. IMHO.

Hard Butter
a food issue discussed socially on TUG lounge

 

[Eric B]

I do think of TUG as social media....

 

[bobpark56]

..and their ketchup!

Hey, if we are going to criticize Canada for ketchup, let's criticize Mexico for their cocktail sauce. Mexicans seem to have no idea what horseradish is, or where to get it.
We bring our own cocktail sauce to Mexico, as we can buy very good shrimp at most supermercados.

 

[PigsDad]

Hey, if we are going to criticize Canada for ketchup, let's criticize Mexico for their cocktail sauce. Mexicans seem to have no idea what horseradish is, or where to get it.
We bring our own cocktail sauce to Mexico, as we can buy very good shrimp at most supermercados.

Your first problem is ruining fresh, delicious shrimp by putting cocktail sauce on it!

Kurt

 

[Monykalyn]

We get milk from a local dairy, and we can tell by the taste when the cows are let out to the pasture the first time in the spring.

Kurt

We do too- and yep-the milk tastes different. Can't drink milk from commercial big dairies anymore as it tastes awful. Course we are spoiled on our eggs too.

 

[dioxide45]

Your first problem is ruining fresh, delicious shrimp by putting cocktail sauce on it!

Kurt

Just like those that dump "steak sauce" on a great cut of steak!

 

[easyrider]

Big Canadian question is whether raisins should be in homemade BUTTER TARTS

The answer is NO for me. I don't know why my Canadian relatives put raisins in perfectly good food. Coleslaw with raisins. Crab salad with raisins. Raisin bread. Peanut butter and raisin. Rice with raisins. I don't like raisins in anything but granola.

For the longest time, it seemed like every jar of mayo in Mexico had lime in it.

I'm not sure why butter is an issue because melting butter soft isn't really tough to figure out unless your stoned I guess. Harder butter could have been a topic at our house in the 70's. I can hear somebody asking something like " hey man, why is this butter so hard ?"

Bill

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Hey, if we are going to criticize Canada for ketchup, let's criticize Mexico for their cocktail sauce. Mexicans seem to have no idea what horseradish is, or where to get it.
We bring our own cocktail sauce to Mexico, as we can buy very good shrimp at most supermercados.

I would say that most North Americans have no idea what really good horseradish is. To get the really good stuff in North America you need a very good Asian market.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Hey, if we are going to criticize Canada for ketchup......

What’s wrong with our ketchup ?

This is like: South Park “blame Canada”

 

[dioxide45]

What’s wrong with our ketchup ?

Noting IMO, Ketchup potato chips on the other hand..... YUCK!

 

[easyrider]

What’s wrong with our ketchup ?

I hope you didn't add raisins to it.

Bill

 

[bbodb1]

The answer is NO for me. I don't know why my Canadian relatives put raisins in perfectly good food. Coleslaw with raisins. Crab salad with raisins. Raisin bread. Peanut butter and raisin. Rice with raisins. I don't like raisins in anything but granola.

For the longest time, it seemed like every jar of mayo in Mexico had lime in it.

I'm not sure why butter is an issue because melting butter soft isn't really tough to figure out unless your stoned I guess. Harder butter could have been a topic at our house in the 70's. I can hear somebody asking something like " hey man, why is this butter so hard ?"

Bill

Maybe it was this righteous dude:

 

[bbodb1]

What’s wrong with our ketchup ?

This is like: South Park “blame Canada”

How can y'all put sugar (or some sweetener) in your ketchup?

 

[DannyTS]

So Canadians ate 10% more butter in 2020. I guess this is true about other foods, another negative effect of the lockdowns.