Posted on 04/14/2021 4:58:37 PM PDT by be-baw
My household is always stocked with least two different kinds of butter: I have cooking butter for sautéing and baking, which is mostly a cheap store brand, and a separate eating butter, usually Kerrygold, for slathering.
While both butters are always salted, the eating butter is kept at room temperature for easier slathering and, oh, how I slather. I slather it on bread (obviously), but I’ve recently expanded my repertoire to include three somewhat unusual, but delicious foods, and I think you should start slathering similarly.
Potato chips
Putting butter on potatoes is a normal thing, as is dipping potato chips into dairy. Why, then, do we not dip potato chips in butter?
If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with puritanical values, and I would encourage you to shun those. The truth is that buttered potato chips taste good. Creamy fat has always paired well with salty, crispy things, and this particular combination is downright decadent, but not so rich that you can’t eat a whole bunch. (If you thought you couldn’t eat “just one” before, wait until you add butter.)
There is some pricey Amish butter here abouts that I have been wanting to buy.
But I will have to buy it some time when I am in the store without my wife.
She is a real penny pincher when it comes to groceries.
It took me years to get her to pay a little extra for real butter.
She still buys margarine for table use and uses the real butter for cooking.
On rare occasions the real butter is in a dish on the table.
YES!!
Kerrygold is excellent, but my new favorite is President butter from France. Delicious!
“mom ran out of butter on movie & popcorn night. So she tried to pass by us using bacon grease!”
That’s hilarious. One time, when I was a kid, probably age 10, Mom sent to the store around the corner to get popcorn. I saw that potato chips were on sale and it seemed like a good deal. Mother was pissed. She marched me to the shore to make sure I returned it and got popcorn.
Nowadays I don’t like chips that much. But I can eat a whole packet of OR popping corn no problem. I’m thinking about having a movie night once a week and on the same day every week. It would probably be on Friday or Saturday. I have about 10 movies recorded, all of which sound pretty good.
Butter is the basis for the original chex mix...a 1953 recipie for Nuts and Bolts...which has chex, cheerios, pretzel thins and peanuts. Can only make them in Dec/Jan because they disappear so fast.
Same here.
I like the texture.
Potato chips are best dipped in Heinz ketchup.
Walmart has 3 kinds of unfrosted pop tarts: strawberry, blueberry and brown sugar cinnamon.
Purnell’s Old Folks Sausage is the best. :p
I eat Jimmy Dean when I cant find Old Folks.
Yep soup with saltines and butter.
We always looked forward to Popcorn & movie night as kids. She would use her big bread bowl and load it up and we'd all have smaller bowls to fill from it. When it was gone we used our fingers to scrap every bit of butter that was left lining the bowl. It was also Soda night and the only time we could actually have it around.
We had such an appreciation for the simple shared moments growing up. Life was hard and we were poor but never knew it....we had a remarkable mother.
Try Tomato Soup with peanut-butter spread on saltines in it.
Got me thinking about Lay’s potato chips. Next time you open a bag look at the quality of that purchase. After only a few large chips, you get medium sized ones, then allot of crumbs.
Does anyone realize that up until the 1990s if you had a bag like that, several people were getting fired due to delivering a poor quality product? Lay’s back then would be ashamed of the current state of what they’re selling.
And I do enjoy trying to make new flavors from different concoctions, but I can't see ruining something so good.
Butter and bacon.
Now go away. I am hungry.
Butter one side of fresh bread add big pile of pickled peppers, make sandwich and enjoy.
What kind of peppers are your pickled ones? What Brand?
“Butter and bacon.”
That’s essentially what I have in my bacon sandwiches. No lettuce, mayo, tomatoes, etc. Just bacon and butter.
The Lays potato chips I get don’t have many crumbs. They have quite a few broken ones. Lays is my favorite brand of potato chips. Classics are great, and I also like their Honey BBQ chips and the salt and vinegar chips.
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