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Proof that food's deepest ambition is to lie flat and conquer toast.
means Soft enough to be smeared evenly across a surface like bread or a cracker, usually with a knife.
from From "spread," which descends from Old English "sprǣdan," to stretch out or extend over a surface — a cousin of Dutch "spreiden" and German "spreiten." The "-able" suffix, borrowed through French from the Latin "-abilis," simply means "capable of being done," so "spreadable" is literally "able to be stretched out flat" — a word that earned its modern fame in the age of mass-produced butters and margarines competing to prove they wouldn't tear your toast.
- cold defiance
- Engineered to stay soft straight from the fridge
- oil tricks
- Often butter cut with vegetable oil for softness
- knife test
- Texture judged by tearing or gliding on bread
- word origin
- From Old English sprædan, to stretch out
lurpak butter — danish butter brand, spreadable at room temperature, market leader in northern europe
nutella — hazelnut-chocolate spread, 600,000 tons produced annually in alba, italy
philadelphia cream cheese — spreadable cheese created in 1872, named after philadelphia despite being made in new york
marmite — yeast extract spread made in burton upon trent, uk since 1902