How can they allow that to happen?

[nineveh_uk]

I inadvertently bought unsalted butter at the supermarket. Two pats of unsalted butter. Shouldn't there be a procedure to stop that happening? Perhaps a till check, with a note flashing up to the cashier when it is scanned followed by, "Excuse me, are you aware that this is not salted butter? Do you definitely wish to purchased unsalted butter?" I am just going to have to cook with it - it's a hard fate. Perhaps I'd better start this afternoon with ginger cake.

The snow got rained on. It was looking very nice at 11pm post-Borgen, and then by 11:30pm as I went to bed it was raining. The morning revealed 2 inches of rather slushy snow. I went skiing anyway, but it wasn't exactly an epic tour across hill and dale.

Comments

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I just made cheese scones with the last of one pack of salted butter and spread one hot out of the oven with butter from a new pack only to find that it is unsalted. Which is not what I was wanting or expecting. The other new pack in the fridge is also unsalted. It's Country Life* and it looks exactly the same as the salted stuff apart from a little red "unsalted" on the front. If both you and my husband managed to simultaneously buy it by mistake, I suspect a conspiracy.


We had a dusting of snow yesterday morning and sleet yesterday afternoon.

*Supporting family industries.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Did you sprinkle salt on your scone?

It was indeed Country Life - the supermarket had a special offer on. Clearly it's a plot. I also found when I was cooking that I had no sugar. Or rather I had sugar, but it had solidified into a block so I had to run and get some more.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I put cheese on it as well as the cheese that was in it.

The sugar keeps solidifying into a block. I bent a knife trying to chip some dark muscovado onto my porridge.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Cheese mends many things.

I bashed the sugar with hard metal objects to no avail before realising that I had time to get to the corner shop before 4pm, and that corner shops that sell any food at all seldom fail to sell sugar (and in fact it not only had sugar, it had light muscovaco sugar).

[marginaliana]

I have had this experience, but the other way around. We only ever buy unsalted, and the thought of spreading salted butter on my toast sounds absolutely horrifying. But that's what I grew up with, so it's what seems most natural, I suppose.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a what you're used to thing, but that doesn't mean that your side isn't wrong ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I will let you into the secret four-step programme for dealing with such issues.

1. Cook with it.
2. Check your address book.
3. Send it to me.
4. Earn my undying gratitude :-)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Your generosity is overwhelming ;-)

[madamedarque.livejournal.com]

Returns? I've taken back margarine before, but that was the same day I bought it. IDK.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I have taken back food that was faulty, but generally perishable goods are non-returnable (being non-resellable) if you just change your mind.

[madamedarque.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was pretty surprised that they took it back. I was thinking that if you accidentally bought the wrong product a sympathetic clerk might let you return it, which was what happened with me. You never know!

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I am bemused by the strong feelings. I was brought up on margarine (specifically dairy-free margarine) so for me butter is an ingredient bought for a specific (usually special occasion) purpose rather than something you always have on hand. I buy salted for savoury purposes and unsalted for sweet, and am generally fairly laid back about adding salt myself or having slightly salty biscuits if I buy the wrong sort. Either is an improvement on the one sort of margarine that was dairy-free and worked in cooking in the 1980s!