{"id":2040,"date":"2015-02-05T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2020-09-28T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:47:02","slug":"butter-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/butter-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I&#8217;ve turned off comments on this post, but, as of 9\/28\/20, I favour Lurpak and Pr\u00e9sident butter in that order.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the common complaints I hear from Gringos in Mexico is that the butter here is terrible. <a href=\"http:\/\/croftsmexico.blogspot.ca\">Croft and Norma<\/a> go so far as to load up their fridge with Canadian butter before coming here.<\/p>\n<p>My first experience with Mexican butter had me wondering what the heck they were talking about because the butter I bought was exactly like unsalted butter back home, sweet and creamy and delicious. I mixed a little salt in when I wanted a spread for fresh bread and it was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>But the next time I got butter, I got a seemingly identical package, only this time with salt. And it turned out to be margarine, not butter, and tasted like the topping for movie popcorn, very artificial and salty.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I saw the no salt real butter, I bought it. And, again, it was just like butter back home.<\/p>\n<p>I avoid margarine, so I started buying salted butter in different brands, to find one I liked. Guess what? It was the same over salty disgusting movie popcorn topping taste, regardless of the price I paid.<\/p>\n<p>So now, I just stock the unsalted butter, stock piling it because it&#8217;s hard to find and I can only get a small stick at a time. I let it soften, mix it with a little salt to taste, and refrigerate it because I don&#8217;t use enough to keep it from going rancid in this climate.<\/p>\n<p>So Gringos, this is the butter you want in Mexico:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/377793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/377793-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"377793\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/377793-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/377793-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/377793.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is Lala brand. Make sure you buy mantequilla sin sal, not margarina con sal as the packages are almost identical!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/barra-margarina-ss-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/barra-margarina-ss-copy.jpg\" alt=\"barra-margarina ss copy\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/barra-margarina-ss-copy.jpg 180w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/barra-margarina-ss-copy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good clue is that pasta can be healthy, pancakes not so much. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve turned off comments on this post, but, as of 9\/28\/20, I favour Lurpak and Pr\u00e9sident butter in that order. One of the common complaints I hear from Gringos in Mexico is that the butter here is terrible. Croft and Norma go so far as to load up their fridge with Canadian butter before coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40900,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/40900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}