Olive Grove butter/spread

[taotoo]

Has anybody bought this recently? Did it taste okay?

[Golden Triangle]

I'm in Pattaya, we get it from Big C I love it, tastes great, I think they do a couple of versions, I recommend it.

[luckyluke]

OK

so is :

 

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

It is best spread ac

Available in Thailand, comes in a light version. Being olive oil based is good for cholesterol. Is an Australian product, I been using for over 12 years here and when I lived in Australia.

Currently  out stock Rimping and B C Chiang Mai. 

If stocks come back will buy bulk.

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[taotoo]

Thanks everyone. It's just that I've bought a couple of them lately that tasted off - not sure if they were stored incorrectly or my tastebuds are playing up.

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

1 hour ago, taotoo said:

Thanks everyone. It's just that I've bought a couple of them lately that tasted off - not sure if they were stored incorrectly or my tastebuds are playing up.

 

[tifino]

1 hour ago, taotoo said:

Thanks everyone. It's just that I've bought a couple of them lately that tasted off - not sure if they were stored incorrectly or my tastebuds are playing up.

seeing as it's not a Butter, but a Seed/Bean based product;

always be prepared for it to go rancid. 

After decades of these fake stuffs, I switched to the real thing...

Ghee

 Takes some getting used to, but now, it goes in all cooking, and on the sandwiches 

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

1 hour ago, taotoo said:

Thanks everyone. It's just that I've bought a couple of them lately that tasted off - not sure if they were stored incorrectly or my tastebuds are playing up.

 

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

It olive oil based and always good, yes if tasted funny somewhere along line not stored correctly.

 

[taotoo]

2 hours ago, tifino said:

seeing as it's not a Butter, but a Seed/Bean based product;

always be prepared for it to go rancid. 

After decades of these fake stuffs, I switched to the real thing...

Ghee

 Takes some getting used to, but now, it goes in all cooking, and on the sandwiches 

 

2 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

It olive oil based and always good, yes if tasted funny somewhere along line not stored correctly.

 

Thank you both. I guess I'll go back to Anchor butter, even if it is more hassle to spread.

 

Incidentally I found the Olive Grove recently at a Rimping after not seeing it there for months.

[Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai]

24 minutes ago, taotoo said:

 

Thank you both. I guess I'll go back to Anchor butter, even if it is more hassle to spread.

 

Incidentally I found the Olive Grove recently at a Rimping after not seeing it there for months.

Which branch of Rimping.

[Golden Triangle]

I'll state the bleedin obvious ???? keep it refrigerated, I've been eating/using it for years, never had a bad one yet, and a whole lot healthier than butter, and believe me I love butter, but since I've been here I have given up sugar & butter and also stopped smoking, I have other vices though ???? 

[taotoo]

4 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Which branch of Rimping.

This one - I haven't checked in any others I'm afraid:

https://goo.gl/maps/BHqMfctumjj9phTg6

[taotoo]

4 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

I'll state the bleedin obvious ???? keep it refrigerated, I've been eating/using it for years, never had a bad one yet, and a whole lot healthier than butter, and believe me I love butter, but since I've been here I have given up sugar & butter and also stopped smoking, I have other vices though ???? 

I had an unopened one in my fridge for months - it was within its expiry though so I used it but it tasted off.

 

Then I bought a new one and was amazed that it tasted equally bad...

[tigerbeer]

i think real butter or ghee are more natural products which the body handles better. 

[Youlike]

16 hours ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

It olive oil based and always good, yes if tasted funny somewhere along line not stored correctly.

 

Because of the smog many things taste strange recently.

[Jip99]

8 minutes ago, Youlike said:

Because of the smog many things taste strange recently.

 

 

 

My beer seems to be unaffected........????

[elektrified]

Read the ingredients carefully. Most of the olive oil spreads sold here have more palm oil than olive oil in them. Pure butter is still healthier than all these palm oil and chemical based spreads. An excellent butter imported from Germany "Anunerlander" is now sold at Makro. It is absolutely the best of all of them (and he same price as the Australian brands).

[xylophone]

18 minutes ago, elektrified said:

Read the ingredients carefully. Most of the olive oil spreads sold here have more palm oil than olive oil in them. Pure butter is still healthier than all these palm oil and chemical based spreads. An excellent butter imported from Germany "Anunerlander" is now sold at Makro. It is absolutely the best of all of them (and he same price as the Australian brands).

Totally agree with you on that and it has been proven many times over the past few years that pure butter is healthiest overall, despite all the scaremongering of many years ago.

 

I don't know of the butter you mention, however I buy the French butter, "Elle & Vire" and although it's supposed to be spreadable, after coming out of the fridge it really isn't, so a couple of thin slices put on the plate for just a couple of minutes before spreading makes all the difference.

 

Haven't used any of these butter substitutes for years since I read reports on how they are made........and there is nothing like the taste of REAL BUTTER!

[dingdongrb]

On 1/22/2020 at 7:52 PM, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Which branch of Rimping.

I have been buying it Makro for years.

[scorecard]

On 1/22/2020 at 7:09 PM, taotoo said:

Thanks everyone. It's just that I've bought a couple of them lately that tasted off - not sure if they were stored incorrectly or my tastebuds are playing up.

It's really a matter of personal taste. My family brought one tub home from the supermarket because the Meadow Lea spread had run out. We've used Meadow Lea for years, all my family (son, his wife and 3 kids) love toast and ML and Vegemite.

 

When I read that the Olive Grove had Olive Oil I was positive because we use good quality olive oil at home (or sunflower oil) for everything, including sometimes dipping fresh bread in oilve oil.

 

But I found the Olive Grove spread to have a really strange taste, very heavy, even unpleasant, it was well within use by date and when it was opened the top of the product looked fresh / not spoiled in any way. 

 

My 3 granddaughters took one bite of their toast with Vegemite and Olive Grove and they rejected it, they have all eaten this with ML a hundred times before and always loved it. 

 

All personal taste. 

[CMoldie]

6 hours ago, dingdongrb said:

I have been buying it Makro for years.

Yesterday, it was available in Rimping RuamChok

[chingmai331]

Olive Grove made in Australia, ain't it?  Uses palm oil, right? A modern synthetic 'food' full of chemicals, eh?

Guess i will stay with butter, but cut back to 1 kg per year.  No problems with that.