Kerrygold softer butter - now with added olive oil!

DCFC79

Occam/s_Razor wrote: »

what is wrong with some of your people? jesus.

i know i dont have any people

alandbailey

I recently bought 2 for £2 Lurpack spreadable and wondered why my toast and sandwiches tasted tasted yukky. I then read the list of ingredients and found vegetable oil, Now I look at the ingredients of most things that I buy. I buy (98% pure butter, 2% salt) butter produced locally in Somerset - but it is only £1.20/250gm and tastes like butter used to taste when I was a boy. Better and cheaper than going to Tesco! :j
I will rarely buy the cheap Ckicken Kievs, also Scampi, as they are made from formed meat. As I get older I eat less but better.:D

Haffiana

President make a pure butter spreadable butter - in both salted and unsalted. Waitrose sell it - maybe other supermarkets do too?

Mrs_Chip

I got a letter in reply to my email, and yes, the reason for the change is due to economics- "Sadly in this harsh economic climate it is no longer viable for us and our farmers to supply Kerrygold Softer Butter at the volume we used to..."

BUT they go on to say "However you can still buy Kerrygold Softer Butter from small independant retailers supplied by cash and carries."

So it would seem that it is the supply to major supermarkets that has stopped, I will have to see if I can find it anywhere else, not really very helpful as generally smaller shops are more expensive you cannot guarantee which shops will stock it.

They included a voucher for £1 to be used against the new butter (!) or a 250g pack of normal Kerrygold butter.

asparagusnextleft

alandbailey wrote: »

I recently bought 2 for £2 Lurpack spreadable and wondered why my toast and sandwiches tasted tasted yukky. I then read the list of ingredients and found vegetable oil, Now I look at the ingredients of most things that I buy. I buy (98% pure butter, 2% salt) butter produced locally in Somerset - but it is only £1.20/250gm and tastes like butter used to taste when I was a boy. Better and cheaper than going to Tesco! :j
I will rarely buy the cheap Ckicken Kievs, also Scampi, as they are made from formed meat. As I get older I eat less but better.:D

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has found Lurpak spreadable to be yuck lately. I only buy it when it's on offer so haven't had any for a while but this last lot has not tasted good, it seems to have turned almost liquid by the time I eat my sandwich at work and it won't stay on the knife, it just slides off. Looking at the ingredients it has 25% vegetable oil. No wonder it was on offer. I won't be buying it again.

MrsE_2

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 !)

Actually no.

Kerrygold & M&S were the only two butter-makers to proudly claim they made real butter that was spreadable.

Now Kerrygold have changed this product & added oil.

M&S AFAIK are the only ones left to do real spreadable butter.

MrsE_2

bwims wrote: »

If you use google with site = kerrygold.co.uk and look for "softer butter", you can find the page, but if you click "About us" and "Products" it's not there anymore. Anyway, they've stopped selling it for certain.

I'm really, really pee'd off about this. The only people to sell 100% butter that is spreadable, and they are caving in, presumably to the fascists who want to control every aspect of our lives.

They could at least explain the softening technique for people at home. What is it, added water, do you think?

M&S still do one.

patski

MrsE wrote: »

M&S still do one.

Loseley do a summer meadow butter and President also do two varieties of spreadable - slightly salted and unsalted. Both available in Waitrose. I have written to both suggesting they might like to contact the other supermarkets as with the withdrawal of KSB, there is now a gap in their product range.

In reply to BWIMS regarding how do they make the softer butter - this is from kerrygold.com:

Kerrygold '' Now Even Softer'' Butter contrasts starkly with other ''spreadable'' products. It is 100% pure butter, just like the original foil wrapped butter. The cream used in the production of Kerrygold ''Now Even Softer'' Butter is sourced at particular times of the summer season, when the cream contains a naturally softer milk fat. This, together with the combination of a gentle tempering process during the holding stage of manufacturing, creates a perfectly natural spreadable product.

geordie_joe

patski wrote: »

I have written to both suggesting they might like to contact the other supermarkets as with the withdrawal of KSB, there is now a gap in their product range.

And the first thing they will think is "Why is there a gap?, is it because the process is too expensive to bother with, or were the sales too few to make it worth while"?

patski wrote: »

In reply to BWIMS regarding how do they make the softer butter - this is from kerrygold.com:

Kerrygold '' Now Even Softer'' Butter contrasts starkly with other ''spreadable'' products. It is 100% pure butter, just like the original foil wrapped butter. The cream used in the production of Kerrygold ''Now Even Softer'' Butter is sourced at particular times of the summer season, when the cream contains a naturally softer milk fat. This, together with the combination of a gentle tempering process during the holding stage of manufacturing, creates a perfectly natural spreadable product.

Or could it be that you can only make it at certain timers of the summer, so you have to get enough cream to make a years supply of butter just in those "certain times".

Anyway, they will want to know why Kerrygold gave up making it before they jump in and "fill the gap".

patski

geordie_joe wrote: »

Anyway, they will want to know why Kerrygold gave up making it before they jump in and "fill the gap".

But Kerrygold haven't given up making it - they just aren't supplying the UK anymore. And I was merely suggesting that Loseley and President might like to investigate other outlets for a product they already produce.