I know a guy who is stationed in Germany. On his anniversary, he was going to take his wife to France for their dinner. They got lost, couldn't find any restraunt and ended up at McDonalds for dinner! What a let down, huh?

So many wonderful places to eat in Europe, but I can see how anyone might feel lost and kind of gravitate to a familiar sign, golden arches, even though I bet McD's is slightly different in each part of the world.

I'm just now reading Peter Mayle's many books about his joy living in France, which is mostly about how the French savor their food in a way that strikes me as being more satisfying than eating big servings such as we see in USA. I noticed that portions were smaller in Europe, that I could see my plate around each portion of meat. That was different from how I'd seen plates in USA that rarely show any plate under the heap of food piled onto a plate. Smaller portions, more tasty food, is how I think of European meals. I'm striving to find that in my eating, even as I enjoy a curl of butter melting on top of my meat or vegies.

Using butter as a condiment, as a flavorful taste, as a treat. Yum!

I've also found that cheese crumbled on top of a sizzling burger is nice. Just a bit of blue cheese - or a shaving of stinky Asiago - so savory, so much nicer than that slab of cheese that I used to eat atop a burger!

Ah, what is cheese but really well aged milk, as butter is churned cream!

My friends have been in Germany almost ten years. So, I'm sure they knew whether they'd like a French McDonalds. LOL

I don't like milk but LOVE cheese. Hee hee. Not fond of blue cheese, though. My husband is the slab-of-cheese-on-the-burger-type-of-guy.

I'm guessing that McD's uses better bread in France, where bread is so remarkable that American bread/rolls would not be tolerated. Sure enough, I found some comment on quality of food in French McD's: From what I'm reading in Peter Mayle's books on France, eating food fast is simply NOT a French concept. They savor food as a nearly sacred experience. Ah, the French! Bon appetit!

I'm having flashbacks on French butter - so light, so white, so full of flavor. Sigh.

I've just added butter back to my diet and oh. my. god. I have missed it so. And yes... I am a butter snacker I have an organic, unsalted cultured butter that is lovely lovely lovely. But I'm dying to try this Kerrygold...will check my Costco.

My butcher makes a compund butter with butter and beef marrow. I am buying some ASAP. I love bone marrow, and I can just imagine it melted overtop my steak...

I had just finished my afternoon "butter snack" when I happened on these threads. I often eat a tsp or so of butter in the afternoon to get me through until I leave work. I keep butter in the fridge.

I started "butter snacking" one day when I realized that when I ate the breadsticks, hard pretzels, corn on the cob, waffles....what I really liked was the butter....now a spoon of better satisfys my "bread and butter" cravings completely


Mercy...an UNASHAMED butter snacker

when others catch you doing this the look on their face is amazing

Who would have thought that a thread on eating butter would last so long and be so popular? You people are weird!





what knife? hmm mmm, what's in my mouth?

I would be one who makes a face. Give me peanutbutter! LOL

Okay, peanut butter it is. And you take it straight? Off a spoon or a knife? Or your finger, if no one's looking? Then you're a buttersnacker too! Just a p'buttersnacker who knows the value of fat without any carb underneath it. That's what this list is about. Welcome aboard!

I didn't know that! WOW! LOL I like it on a spoon or on revolution rolls.

Butter... Hmmm... YES! I eat butter... Just butter, butter is better as just butter... I Love Raw Butter!!! Go to organicpatures.com and read all about the benefits of wonderful grass-fed organic raw butter... mmmmmmm.... I also make my own cultured butter using raw milk... Again... Mmmmmmm... So yes... Definitely a Butter Snacker here and PROUD OF IT!

http://www.organicpastures.com/ sure looks tasty to me, with all sorts of products including kombucha and kefir/qephor as well as raw butter from grass-fed cows - oh, melt-in-your-mouth butter! http://www.organicpastures.com/products_butter.html

I can hardly wait to finish up my current supply of butter - Kerry Gold - so I can get some raw butter next. I'm curious about it.

*Vic goes to get a spoonful of peanutbutter*

Vic, the thing about p'butter is that IT STICKS TO THE ROOF OF MY MOUFFF, which true butter never ever does. I still make my p'butter by chewing peanuts one at a time, right out of the shell.