Lurpak butter

Might it be a supply issue?
There are lots of things missing thee days often without rhyme or reason

MawtheMerrier

Might it be a supply issue?
There are lots of things missing thee days often without rhyme or reason

No, I emailed Waitrose who said they have discontinued the product due to lack of demand.

Well I suppose with cutting a few pence here and there off the supermarket bill, people are going for the own brand alternative.
I now buy (own brand) butter in the big size, cut off about a quarter which I put in the butter dish, and put the rest in the fridge. It looks neater too in the butter dish.

The fridges in Spain (and her Islands) used to be full of Lurpak
Unsalted Butter, I wonder if they are empty as well?

But they still sell Lurpak online as shown here

I love Lurpak unsalted. Hope it's not out of production.

It was my mum’s favourite butter.
Is it a sneaky plot to get shoppers to buy own brand goods as supermarkets reduce the lines of external brands I wonder?

I’m a Lurpak Unsalted fan as well. I really hope the haven’t stopped production.

I don’t buy Lurpak spreads, only the block butter

glammagran

MawtheMerrier

Might it be a supply issue?
There are lots of things missing thee days often without rhyme or reason

No, I emailed Waitrose who said they have discontinued the product due to lack of demand.

I remember asking for a product in Tesco years ago and was told "We've discontinued it due to lack of demand - yes people are always asking me for it".

I used to buy block Lurpak (salted) a while ago but haven't seen it for ages so I've bought the tubs a couple of times but it's mixed with rapeseed oil and a couple of other things whereas I just want butter (with salt).

It was my mum’s favourite butter
And my Mum's TillyTrotter

I like my butter salted and like Maw I use own brand
Never have liked the taste of Lurpak each to his own

I’ve got their lightly salted in my online basket for next week’s delivery.

Never been keen on lurpak (too creamy) and always had Anchor as a child. I now buy bog standard block salted for cooking but pay an extra 20p for the blocks with sea salt crystals for slathering on crumpets ?

Seems odd to buy butter from abroad, when we make so much of it here in the UK. I never understood the logic of shipping Anchor butter all the way from New Zealand when we grow it on our doorstep (but then I learned about the economics of our links with NZ - all changed now of course). And many brands do unsalted as well as salted - I buy Duchy or Yeo unsalted from Waitrose. Perhaps we are spoilt for choice.

Just because some people want something doesn't mean enough people want it to make it worth ordering, especially as Waitrose will lose quantity discounts if their order is too small.

It may also be that with only a fixed amount space to stock butter and margarine, they stock the ones that sell best and once the space is filled, everything else is discontinued.

Peoples taste's changed. Now that so many people have coffee machines, the selection of instant coffee on the shelves and the space given to it has shrunken drastically.

I never understood the logic of shipping Anchor butter all the way from New Zealand when we grow it on our doorstep (but then I learned about the economics of our links with NZ - all changed now of course

Anchor butter has been made here for very many years. It's British.
The butter is made in Wiltshire from British milk/cream by Arla, a co-operative of British farmers.

Callistemon21

^I never understood the logic of shipping Anchor butter all the way from New Zealand when we grow it on our doorstep (but then I learned about the economics of our links with NZ - all changed now of course^

Anchor butter has been made here for very many years. It's British.
The butter is made in Wiltshire from British milk/cream by Arla, a co-operative of British farmers.

Only since 2012, Callistemon21.

Ah yes.
But we still import NZ lamb and it's cheaper than local!

Anchor butter is amde in Wiltshire. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569867/Anchor-New-Zealand-butter-Wiltshire-Brand-owner-breaks-tradition-120-years-moving-production-UK.html

I will only buy U.K. butter - I like to support our own dairy farmers - though used to buy Lurpak when we lived abroad and it was all you could get. I really don’t understand what’s so special about Lurpak.

I find Lurpack too pale and not over flavoursome.

Used to be a Lurpak unsalted devotee and then I discovered President. Absolutely no contest and my local W still stocks it though it has disappeared from T & S.

I would always buy British butter and especially lamb. We shouldn't consume anything from overseas which can be produced here.