Why is it that proper butter is always in foil? Why can’t they put it in tubs like the fake stuff?

19 comments

1. Because it’s too hard to get out of a tub easily

2. Why can’t you manage to spread butter without getting foil in it?

3. How are you using it that you get foil on your toast?
   The tubs are just disposable butter dishes. If you feel strongly about it, wash one our and decant your pat of butter into it before you start using it.

   (I think the reason is that it’s a more efficient way of packaging it, and as butter isn’t soft like spreads, it doesn’t need a tub)

4. A butter dish is just the same as having butter/spread in a plastic tub, no?

5. I keep mine in an upside down tupperware box. No butter, it’s just a box.

6. I have never managed to get “foil” from a butter pack on my toast, bread, bagels, rolls or any other bread related item. Are you perhaps using a machete?

7. When you’re making a cake and you need 125g of butter, it’s very easy to cut a block of butter in half. It saves on washing up too. I don’t want to wash up the weighing bowl after I’ve scooped butter out of a tub trying to estimate the weight in a spoonfull.

8. What the fuck are you doing if you’re getting bits of foil in it?

9. They sell Golden Cow and Kerrymaid real butter in tubs, im in NI so Dno if the rest of the UK gets these butters cuz they’re Irish butter

10. I’ve never got foil into my food from the butter. That’s an impressive skillset of yours!

    But hey just buy a butter dish and you’re all set. Much cooler than plastic tubs too.

11. Plastic bushes cannot grow in the same climate as Butter Trees. It’s a logistical problem.

12. Kerrygold spreadable butter and M&S spreadable butter are still 100% butter with no adulteration, in a plastic tub. All others, that I have checked, are not.

    There’s a Président butter in an inverted plastic tub that sits on the lid as a presentation tray, but that’s a bit like a butter dish so perhaps you don’t want that.

13. It’s to show you that it’s best butter.

14. Of only someone would invent some sort of reusable, washable dish for the butter to go in…

15. Because spreads are poured into tubs, proper butter doesn’t flow so is shaped and wrapped.

16. I appreciate that it’s one of the few foods that’s packaged in an eco-friendly and practical manner. The world doesn’t need more plastic.

17. If you don’t want a butter dish, just unwrap the butter and drop it into an empty marge tub.

    Best of luck.

18. Op needs a Swedish butter knife. In fact everyone does they are life changing how easy they spread without butchering the bread. Ours is plastic rather than wood though as wood can hold bacteria

19. Not had Anchor in the last two decades then?