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What's the difference between Clover and Spreadable Butter?

When Clover first came out it was advertised on TV as "same ingredient as butter, but because we add some vegetable oil to spread straight from the fridge we are not allowed to call it butter."

Now I notice that alllllll butter brands are producing a "spreadable" version, and allllllll include vegetable oil and allllllll have dropped the word "butter", but are still charging twice as much as Clover

So my question is
What's the difference between Clover and Spreadable Butter?

Which do you buy?
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Clover or Spreadable Butter? 8 votes

Clover
37% 3 votes
Spreadable Butter
62% 5 votes

Comments

  • maisie_cat
    maisie_cat Posts: 2,130 Forumite
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    You can make your own spreadable butter by adding oil to butter and at least you know whats in it. Spreadable butter appears to be similar, a mix of butter, vegetable oil & water, clover looks like it's all vegetable oil including palm oil and buttermilk & other stuff to add a buttery taste. Clover is cheaper because the ingredients are cheaper. If you make your own spreadable butter to anchor proportions it will cost around the same as anchor spreadable, but as I said, you'll know what's in it.
    I use proper butter, cows or goats milk, in a butter dish on the worktop, and only once in the extreme heat did it go too soft to use. the cost is again around the same per kilo as anchor.
    The cheapest way is to get cream on yellow sticker and make butter, then add oil/water if you want spreadable.
  • I use "it's sort of like yellow spread" from Home Bargains when it's in stock. 49p a tub (which would be £1.10 for Tesco upmarket yellow spread).
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • Ultimately at 10 years old I noticed that Cadbury were mis-leading customers and eventually in 2010 the European Court found the same

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11427357
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  • Cornucopia
    Cornucopia Posts: 16,374 Forumite
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    Ultimately at 10 years old I noticed that Cadbury were mis-leading customers...
    Wrong thread.
    ... eventually in 2010 the European Court found the same

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11427357

    The linked story says nothing like that, and I doubt that the "European Court" would be involved in a minor product labelling issue anyway.

    The story specifically says that UK Trading Standards would have no issue if Cadbury wished to continue with the "glass and a half" line.


    Since you've deemed your own thread so relatively unexciting that you needed to spice it up with some libellous content, I'm going to close it now.
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