Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Stories from Saudi: Mrs Butter

Before I even started my conversation about food, Abir 31 years old, teacher started her conversation as “I am just a butter lover”…Jam and butter, honey and butter, cocoa butter, peanut butter…just name it!

Mrs. Butter as she is known by her family and now by her husband. She added, “There are butter people and there are margarine people. I'm a “butter” person. A pat of butter, whether melted over a thick steak or on an ear of corn, or with brown bread makes food taste better. Margarine makes food taste oily. The price is in the eating.”

Abir spends hours in the hypermarket just to find out new butter products…She scans with passion all the butter shelves and products that contain butter…while shopping in Danube…fears no taste of butter…tries all brands and all new…Butter is on the priority list always.
Lurpak is on the list for cooking issues… yet all kinds / brands of butter spreads are considered within her shopping list.

According to her, it is neither the brand nor the promotion that attracts me to butter, it is just butter!”
It is determined in her dictionary that Lurpak is for cooking and other brands are used as spread…Lurpak according to her has an extraordinary smooth taste and flavor.
Bulks are bought…storage could be either in the freezer or in the store room…all depends on the products formula.

She is a cooking fan though…but all meals should contain butter; whether traditional cuisine or international cuisines.
We followed her to the kitchen…preparing supper for her husband…”What’s on the menu?” I asked, she replied with laughter, “Appetizer as mushroom soup with a teaspoon of butter, grilled steak and grilled potato wedges covered with pat of butter, mixed salad followed by desserts”…quite sure that the desserts had butter in within.

Though criticized by all her surrounding, she cares less…Preaches from here and there that butter isn’t healthy and is fattening…least of her worries…Regular check-ups have no signs of anything to worry about…
Her main concern is her husband’s satisfaction…new dishes are served everyday which please him… highly talented in cooking variety of meals and sweets…”So why worry?” as she says…and on daily basis, a huge bowl of popcorn is set in the TV room…of course fried with butter.

Abir stays hours and hours on cooking sites in particular dishes that contains butter and creates new meals at least 3 times a week.


On a separate note, body lotion should also be butter!
One of the funniest interviews I had☺

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