Kerrygold softer butter - now with added olive oil!

deebee

Just went to buy a tub of my favourite butter spread in Morrisons, how nice - an attractive bright yellow new tub, not so nice is - Kerrygold spreadable butter in tub now has olive oil in it - gross!

Before on the tub it proudly stated contains no added vegetable oil

This looks like yet another cost saving ploy - well I for one won't be buying that - the reason I bought the old one was because unlike all other spreads it did not have any added oils

Shame on you Kerrygold!!!

Rebelle

I'm gutted about this too, noticed last time I was in Asda they didn't have the normal spreadable just added olive oil stuff... was hoping it was a new line alongside the old one, not a replacement for it. I won't be buying the new stuff, really disappointing.

moonrakerz

deebee wrote: »

Just went to buy a tub of my favourite butter spread in Morrisons, how nice - an attractive bright yellow new tub, not so nice is - Kerrygold spreadable butter in tub now has olive oil in it - gross!

Before on the tub it proudly stated contains no added vegetable oil

This looks like yet another cost saving ploy - well I for one won't be buying that - the reason I bought the old one was because unlike all other spreads it did not have any added oils

Shame on you Kerrygold!!!

You bought a different product.

If you buy something called "spread" it is not 100% butter. If you want something that is 100% butter - buy butter !


If you look at the Kerrygold website you will see the difference between "softer" butter and "spreadable" (notice the lack of the word "butter" !!!!)

(PS: Kerrygold could take your thread title as libel - they haven't added anything to their softer butter !)

Bongedone

I thought the only way to make it spreadable is to add something

GlynD

I've bought the spread amd like it. But beside it on the shelves was regular Kerrygold 100% pure butter and Golden Cow which is another Kerrygold product made in a separate Northern Ireland creamery. I'd prefer the Golden Cow every time.

Mrs_Chip

Moonrakerz

Kerrygold used to do a pure spreadable butter in a tub, which they have now replaced with a spread containing oil. For those of us who do only want to buy butter, this is infuriating. No idea why they needed to !!!!!! about ith a perfectly acceptable product, I expect it has something to do with costs.

So now I have to find a suitable replacement, or a way to keep butter spreadable in the fridge or fresh if I keep it out :mad::mad::mad:

GlynD

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Moonrakerz

Kerrygold used to do a pure spreadable butter in a tub, which they have now replaced with a spread containing oil. For those of us who do only want to buy butter, this is infuriating. No idea why they needed to !!!!!! about ith a perfectly acceptable product, I expect it has something to do with costs.

So now I have to find a suitable replacement, or a way to keep butter spreadable in the fridge or fresh if I keep it out :mad::mad::mad:

Buy their Golden Cow product instead which does not contain oil.

moonrakerz

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Moonrakerz

Kerrygold used to do a pure spreadable butter in a tub, which they have now replaced with a spread containing oil. For those of us who do only want to buy butter, this is infuriating. No idea why they needed to !!!!!! about ith a perfectly acceptable product, I expect it has something to do with costs.

So now I have to find a suitable replacement, or a way to keep butter spreadable in the fridge or fresh if I keep it out :mad::mad::mad:

I don't wish to be super pedantic here, but you seem to be missing my point.
Kerrygold didn't do "spreadable" butter, they did "softer" butter. By Law, softer butter must contain butter and nowt else.
If the word "spread" or "spreadable" is used they can add what ever they wish to make it spreadable - usually some sort of vegetable oil.

According to their website they still do the "softer" butter - have you contacted them ? It may just be your shop that has decided not to stock it any more .........

http://www.kerrygold.co.uk/index.php?p=kerrygold-softer-butter............

bwims

moonrakerz wrote: »

You bought a different product.

If you buy something called "spread" it is not 100% butter. If you want something that is 100% butter - buy butter !


If you look at the Kerrygold website you will see the difference between "softer" butter and "spreadable" (notice the lack of the word "butter" !!!!)

(PS: Kerrygold could take your thread title as libel - they haven't added anything to their softer butter !)

Except their "softer butter" no longer appears in their list of products!

At their website, click "About us" - "Products"

All they've got there is the adulterated "spreadable" and the even more adulterated "lighter spreadable"!

bwims

I have submitted the following to their contact page. I suggest, as they have a Facebook page, that as many people as possible post comments complaining about this outrage!

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Hello,

I am writing to find out the position with the "classic" as opposed to the "new" spreadable butter. I was delighted that you alone provided a form of spreadable butter _without_ additives, and have been a loyal customer for some time. However, I am finding it increasingly difficult to find the "classic" variety. I am not interested in butter with olive or any other vegetable oil added. If I were, I would eat margarine, as I used to before I came to the conclusion that medical advice in this area is not safe.

Please, please, please tell me that the "classic" 100% pure spreadable butter is still and will continue to be available, and, if so, where the heck it is sold in the CT postal area in the UK.

I assure you that if you have withdrawn the "classic" variety, then I will resort to hard butter, and go through the nausea of softening it in a butter dish rather than buy the adulterated form. In this case, I will buy the cheapest hard butter, not necessarily Kerrygold.

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I will be posting to Facebook today.

bwims

moonrakerz wrote: »

I don't wish to be super pedantic here, but you seem to be missing my point.
Kerrygold didn't do "spreadable" butter, they did "softer" butter. By Law, softer butter must contain butter and nowt else.
If the word "spread" or "spreadable" is used they can add what ever they wish to make it spreadable - usually some sort of vegetable oil.

According to their website they still do the "softer" butter - have you contacted them ? It may just be your shop that has decided not to stock it any more .........

(your link removed because I'm a newbie and can't even quote one)

Your link does not show anything about "softer" butter.

Can you give a better link?