[DevilsDuck]

unsalted...you philistines!

Next thing you will be telling me the clotted cream is bad for you!!!

[Yudster]

I just love the taste of unsalted butter as a special treat because I usually use salted for everyday stuff. I do like salted butter. President is a treat though, hence the "doux" option.

[dreamer1978]

The only butter i eat is Peanut Butter. Is it a real butter or not? I can't eat butter as it makes me ill.

[Nicola_Red]

No, peanut butter is dairy free, so it's not actually butter.

[dreamer1978]

No, peanut butter is dairy free, so it's not actually butter.

Yeah so why is it called peanut butter. I have always wondered why it was called that.

[DevilsDuck]

It sounds better than peanut spread or spreadable peanut goo

[Johnny 1989]

I hate hard butter, mainly as when you try to spread it on bread the bloody stuff falls to pieces.

Peanut Butter is ace though, can't remember the last time I had it though.

[dreamer1978]

I have two jars of American peanut butter in the cupboard. I love the American stuff better than the UK stuff. Might have toast and peanut butter for a snack.

[neilt0]

I really like President Unsalted, I get it at Christmas! I didn't know they do a soft option though, if I see that i'll definitely try it.

If you have a Waitrose nearby, they always stock it. It costs a little more than other butter, but not that much, and occasionally it'll go on offer at the same price or less than Lurpak or whatever.

[Yudster]

I have two jars of American peanut butter in the cupboard. I love the American stuff better than the UK stuff. Might have toast and peanut butter for a snack.

American peanut butter tastes "better" because it has so much added sugar. I get Whole Earth Crunchy - its lovely, and 97% peanuts. Only other ingredients are palm oil (I'd prefer it if that wasn't there to be fair) and salt. Americans wouldn't recognise it as peanut butter, its nothing like the sickly goo they eat.

[MK Chris]

Peanut butter is absolutely disgusting.

[Nicola_Red]

I like Whole Earth too. As a kid I wasn't allowed peanut butter at home cos my mum is so allergic, just the smell of it or a trace on a knife or plate would set her off - so it's a luxury to me now. I do occasionally go to Selfridges and buy the American peanut butter jelly - that is AMAZING.

[Yudster]

Most of the people who reckon they are "allergic" - or more probably reckon that their kids are allergic - to peanuts are talking nonsense, but where there is a genuine peanut allergy it is terrifying.

When Baby Yudster was at nursery, there was a child who had a severe allergy, and the nursery bent over backwards to make sure there were no peanuts or peanut derivatives anywhere in the building. Still the child had a serious attack one day and nearly died. They finally discovered that another child at the nursery who was in the same room as the poorly one (but separated by a considerable distance and a half-wall barrier) had eaten peanut butter on toast that morning before they went to nursery, and that's what set it off. Scary stuff.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, my mum has an epi-pen but it's still alarming when she accidentally goes too near something. She's also allergic to dried fruit and aniseed, randomly.

[Yudster]

Dried fruit? What - any fruit, dried, or just raisins and sultanas? And why?! I wonder what it is about drying a grape that changes it so that it can cause a histhamine response? Allergies are strange things.

[Nicola_Red]

Raisins and sultanas mainly, I think. I'm not sure about stuff like cranberries. If I want mince pies or Christmas pudding at Christmas time I have to buy them myself and take them with me, cos my dad can't eat them cos they give him heartburn, my mum is allergic, and my brother is just fussy.

[R94N]

I get hayfever. That's about it for allergies for me.

[DevilsDuck]

chocolate makes me sneeze

[Yudster]

I'm allergic to Erythromycin but I don't think anything else causes me a full blown allergy problem. A few things give me a rash, or make me feel crappy, but that's not an allergy.

[dreamer1978]

My skin is allergic to its self. I have a skin condition called Urticaria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticaria Its chronic and i hate it. Plus i am alergic to eggs and oranges.

[Johnny 1989]

I don't have any allergies, however oddly if I eat Salt & Vinegar crisps my lips get sore & sometimes the skin cracks, not sure why because I'm fine with any other flavour but for some reason Salt & Vinegar crisps have that effect on my lips.

It's never really bothered me & perhaps my lips happen to be sensitive to salt & vinegar crisps but I just find it easier to not eat them.

[Nicola_Red]

I have the exact same thing with salt and vinegar crisps! That's weird.

[DevilsDuck]

I know why that happens...



Its because you are a pair of pansy asses!

[Johnny 1989]

I have the exact same thing with salt and vinegar crisps! That's weird.

Oh really, so not just me then

I know why that happens...



Its because you are a pair of pansy asses!

Shut it duckie!