I recently tried Kerrygold and it's amazing. I could eat it straight.

I know this sounds wrong but I'm going to say it anyway ... I live in Northern Ireland and always am amazed at how amazed you all are about kerrygold - that's the way butter is supposed to be! Pretty much all butter is like that here and we would be horrified if you offered us something else that wasn't grass fed ( in the winter the cows are eating silage or haylage however as they aren't out in the fields, but indirect grass at least) - we assume butter will be grass fed here in Northern Ireland where the grass grows so well. It's not an amazing thing, it's that all the other products must be so debased that the real thing has somehow become special and "gourmet" and expensive. The world is upside down.

However we do also have all the butter replacement rubbish as well (flora and I can't believe it's not butter, etc - what a name) that's supposed to be "heart healthy" etc. I think they are the worst possible things you can eat for your health.

I'm not judging you guys, I'm sure you would choose grass fed butter as the norm if you could, just horrified to see where butter here will probably end up in a few decades as our trends tend to track yours. I hope we have the sense to keep butter the way it is now - grass fed as the norm.

I think the bad thing here is that our grass, although lush and green!, tends to be mono-cultural - I think meadow grass fed butter would be even better with a variety of grasses that the cows could eat.

Sorry for ranting - real butter is your right! But I appreciate it must be expensive if it's imported to you from Ireland. I should stop talking now....

Not an option here either! Would love to try it though! Sounds so good!

totaloblivia wrote: »

I know this sounds wrong but I'm going to say it anyway ... I live in Northern Ireland and always am amazed at how amazed you all are about kerrygold - that's the way butter is supposed to be! Pretty much all butter is like that here and we would be horrified if you offered us something else that wasn't grass fed ( in the winter the cows are eating silage or haylage however as they aren't out in the fields, but indirect grass at least) - we assume butter will be grass fed here in Northern Ireland where the grass grows so well. It's not an amazing thing, it's that all the other products must be so debased that the real thing has somehow become special and "gourmet" and expensive. The world is upside down.

However we do also have all the butter replacement rubbish as well (flora and I can't believe it's not butter, etc - what a name) that's supposed to be "heart healthy" etc. I think they are the worst possible things you can eat for your health.

I'm not judging you guys, I'm sure you would choose grass fed butter as the norm if you could, just horrified to see where butter here will probably end up in a few decades as our trends tend to track yours. I hope we have the sense to keep butter the way it is now - grass fed as the norm.

I think the bad thing here is that our grass, although lush and green!, tends to be mono-cultural - I think meadow grass fed butter would be even better with a variety of grasses that the cows could eat.

Sorry for ranting - real butter is your right! But I appreciate it must be expensive if it's imported to you from Ireland. I should stop talking now....

Well, I agree with you. The "real deal" shouldn't be a novelty for any food, but it is. We are the Kings and Queens of frankenfoods in the US. I am thankful that my local grocer has been starting to carry Kerrygold. Before, I could only buy the spreadable KG from Sam's Club. I eat it every day, so it is worth the cost.

Kitnthecat wrote: »

Wish I could try some, we can't get Kerrygold where I live, have never tasted it.

Karlottap wrote: »

Not an option here either! Would love to try it though! Sounds so good!

I don't know where y'all are, but most Walmart stores carry Kerrygold now... Gold or silver package (silver is unsalted and gold is salted, if I recall). It's usually in a small "corner" of the butter section, but I've also noticed another "grassfed brand" but I hadn't paid attention to the name...

totaloblivia wrote: »

I know this sounds wrong but I'm going to say it anyway ... I live in Northern Ireland and always am amazed at how amazed you all are about kerrygold - that's the way butter is supposed to be! Pretty much all butter is like that here and we would be horrified if you offered us something else that wasn't grass fed ( in the winter the cows are eating silage or haylage however as they aren't out in the fields, but indirect grass at least) - we assume butter will be grass fed here in Northern Ireland where the grass grows so well. It's not an amazing thing, it's that all the other products must be so debased that the real thing has somehow become special and "gourmet" and expensive. The world is upside down.

However we do also have all the butter replacement rubbish as well (flora and I can't believe it's not butter, etc - what a name) that's supposed to be "heart healthy" etc. I think they are the worst possible things you can eat for your health.

I'm not judging you guys, I'm sure you would choose grass fed butter as the norm if you could, just horrified to see where butter here will probably end up in a few decades as our trends tend to track yours. I hope we have the sense to keep butter the way it is now - grass fed as the norm.

I think the bad thing here is that our grass, although lush and green!, tends to be mono-cultural - I think meadow grass fed butter would be even better with a variety of grasses that the cows could eat.

Sorry for ranting - real butter is your right! But I appreciate it must be expensive if it's imported to you from Ireland. I should stop talking now....

The problem is that everything in the US (in general) has become about profit, and it's cheaper for agriculture to pen up cows and feed them grains and crap, and take out most of the cream for heavy cream and find every possible corner to cut. For 1 pound of butter, I can generally get it for around $3-$4 for the generic brand. For the Kerrygold, for half that, it is the same price or higher. So yes, it's ridiculous around here, but most folks really just started raising a ruckus about it. We got away from farm fresh stuff for the most part, and so we didn't know what we were missing.

Not even talking about the fake plastic stuff... Just butter, but with all the good stuff stripped, because they could get away with it and increase their profits. Honestly, the cost of butter is getting to the point where making my own from heavy cream and keeping the whey for fermenting veggies is seeming more and more likely, but my heavy cream isn't grassfed either. It's bad enough cost wise without all that!

Definitely staying with Kerrygold butter and cheese. Fairly cheap at Costco.

totaloblivia wrote: »

KnitOrMiss wrote: »

Kitnthecat wrote: »

Wish I could try some, we can't get Kerrygold where I live, have never tasted it.

Karlottap wrote: »

Not an option here either! Would love to try it though! Sounds so good!

I don't know where y'all are, but most Walmart stores carry Kerrygold now... Gold or silver package (silver is unsalted and gold is salted, if I recall). It's usually in a small "corner" of the butter section, but I've also noticed another "grassfed brand" but I hadn't paid attention to the name...

totaloblivia wrote: »

I know this sounds wrong but I'm going to say it anyway ... I live in Northern Ireland and always am amazed at how amazed you all are about kerrygold - that's the way butter is supposed to be! Pretty much all butter is like that here and we would be horrified if you offered us something else that wasn't grass fed ( in the winter the cows are eating silage or haylage however as they aren't out in the fields, but indirect grass at least) - we assume butter will be grass fed here in Northern Ireland where the grass grows so well. It's not an amazing thing, it's that all the other products must be so debased that the real thing has somehow become special and "gourmet" and expensive. The world is upside down.

However we do also have all the butter replacement rubbish as well (flora and I can't believe it's not butter, etc - what a name) that's supposed to be "heart healthy" etc. I think they are the worst possible things you can eat for your health.

I'm not judging you guys, I'm sure you would choose grass fed butter as the norm if you could, just horrified to see where butter here will probably end up in a few decades as our trends tend to track yours. I hope we have the sense to keep butter the way it is now - grass fed as the norm.

I think the bad thing here is that our grass, although lush and green!, tends to be mono-cultural - I think meadow grass fed butter would be even better with a variety of grasses that the cows could eat.

Sorry for ranting - real butter is your right! But I appreciate it must be expensive if it's imported to you from Ireland. I should stop talking now....

The problem is that everything in the US (in general) has become about profit, and it's cheaper for agriculture to pen up cows and feed them grains and crap, and take out most of the cream for heavy cream and find every possible corner to cut. For 1 pound of butter, I can generally get it for around $3-$4 for the generic brand. For the Kerrygold, for half that, it is the same price or higher. So yes, it's ridiculous around here, but most folks really just started raising a ruckus about it. We got away from farm fresh stuff for the most part, and so we didn't know what we were missing.

Not even talking about the fake plastic stuff... Just butter, but with all the good stuff stripped, because they could get away with it and increase their profits. Honestly, the cost of butter is getting to the point where making my own from heavy cream and keeping the whey for fermenting veggies is seeming more and more likely, but my heavy cream isn't grassfed either. It's bad enough cost wise without all that!

It's going the same way here too for profits. I'm not meaning to judge. Probably only got grass Fed cows because grass is the best crop we can grow in Ireland! Are there areas of the US where cows are grass Fed?

As far as I know in the USA close to 100% of milk cows get grain a milking time (2x Daily) even if they are grass feed. I expect the same may be true in Ireland.

Butter must be good for hitting ketosis. At bed time I drank 4 oz (400 calories) of 36% butter fat Heavy Whipping Cream and blew a 0.091 my $15 breath analyzer this morning where I call 0.050 OK. 0.081 was the previous record. I did not dig out my ketone strips to measure the blood level.

totaloblivia wrote: »

It's going the same way here too for profits. I'm not meaning to judge. Probably only got grass Fed cows because grass is the best crop we can grow in Ireland! Are there areas of the US where cows are grass Fed?

I live in the North, so we are buried under snow for several months per year. We do have some grass-fed farms here in MI, but many are grain "finished" or supplemented due to the weather.