I'd have to say No, I don't remember ever buying bad butter either in one pound blocks or quarter pound sticks. Most of the time any more I stock up at Costco - even knowing its not always the best price if a local store coupon is available. I keep extra butter in the garage refrigerator or sometimes freeze it.

Have you tasted it and does it taste OK. You always have the option of returning it to the store where you bought it. Few will insist on you showing a receipt if you go with your product to customer service and explain the problem.

No, I never have. Seems very unusual and agree with returning it. Maybe consider contacting customer service for the brand, too.

Do not know about butter did that, but if a veg. oil spread is kept frozen for 8 or 10 months it will do that. I have not baked with it, but have found it fine for all other things. ( AK Imperial marg. sticks)

I didn't think I could return it without a receipt, but I suppose it's worth a try. I have another 1-lb box I bought at the same time that I haven't opened.

I was thinking freeze issues, too, but have never seen that in butter.

In general, customer service ideas say that if a customer has an issue, fix it. A pound of butter, from someone without a pattern of complaints, isn't a big enough item to trigger suspicions of fraud, so no receipt is usually okay. Make the customer whole, and happy for being heard, and coming back to the store, This is true in many sectors, but especially in grocery, where margins are low, stores mostly have the same goods making shopping elsewhere easy, except in very rural areas, and spoilage can turn nurishing into poison.

I have never had butter like that, I don't think, but have had rancid butter. I would definitely attempt to take it back.

Never have I ever had crumbly butter - when I read this topic's title I thought it was going to be about it being rancid.

Was it actual butter or margarine/buttery spread?

I didn't think butter will crumble. Something is definitely wrong with whatever it was sold as.

It's butter. I never buy margarine. It is Land O Lakes. I've never had bad LOL butter before (or any bad butter before...).

It’s just odd. I would return it and contact Land O Lakes.

Apparently, crumbly butter is a thing. I didn't have time to do a lot of research, and most of what I found was about home buttermaking, but some references to commercial. from what I've gleaned, it's not just freezzing, which we all do successfully, but uneven and repeated temperature fluctuations. My suspicion was that something happened in transport, and this new morsel of information, supports that—but who knows? Just return it. ;)

I never had that happen with butter but have with cream cheese.

Take it back to where ou bought it they should replace it i buy butter when its on sale and keep it in the freezer its always just perfect after thawing

Never had that happen but I also looked it up because I do make butter from time to time. And it was what I thought it might be. Butter is an emulsion. It is a mixture of butter fat and milk solids with some water. In your case apparently the emulsion broke down. It sounds safe to use but why use defective butter where it wont do many of the things you want butter to do. I would take it back and bet you arent the only person to do so. Still you can salvage it by clarifying by heating it gently, pouring off the fat and leave the liquid milk solids and water behind and use it for cooking or even take it all the way to browned butter where the milk solids are cooked and the water cooked off. Both keep really well.

A few months ago I opened a 2-day old package of Provolone cheese slices. I could see dots of blue mold. I didn't have the receipt but took it back…no problem. I also emailed the company (Full Circle) to let them know. Got their contact info online. They sent a nice, apologetic response saying they’d be sending some gift coupons. A few weeks later I received two vouchers from them totaling $15. Better than nothing!

No, I never got a bad stick of butter. 🧈

I did learn something about butter a few months ago and that is that melted butter that has been resolidified will not behave the same way when using it to bake say in pastry dough. Melting butter changes the structure of it and that can’t be reverse just by cooling.

I wonder what happened with that particular stick of butter was that it had somehow melted and then resolidified.🧈

In general, I don’t think it’s a good idea to use a product that seems very out of character for how it is supposed to be. Who knows what might have happened .

Most grocery stores that I use will take something back, even if you do not have the receipt. A few weeks ago, the bagger did not the fresh haddock into the bag. I told DH to just call the store and from his receipt which she happen to have give them the name of the cashier aisle or the number the date the time and what not. I have done that when somebody forgot to put the roast in the bag. They looked it up on their video camera and saw that although I had paid for the roast, the bagger did not put it into the bag. No problem just go get a store credit. The same grocery store was very nice and offered the same to my husband. In regards to the haddock that did not get bagged.

At a grocery store in another state years ago, I got home only to realize that some item I bought I think it was quiche was spoiled and had mold on it. I called and went back to the grocery store and they only gave me my bunny back, but they gave me coupons and store credits for lots of other things .

My sister once asked incredulously, “you can take things back to the grocery store?!“ And I told her, of course you can she felt that it would be an imposition or something.

grocery store refused to return an item you could always say more forcefully that you really believe they should honor their reputation and give you a credit or more because you have wasted your time something somewhere along the line went wrong. If that fails, you could always advertise it on a place like craigslist . Ask about $100 for it and explain that that’s worth your time plus the product because the original store would not except the defective product for store credit. You could always suggest the name of the store. Hahaha.

But really most grocery stores are very good. They want to keep your business and they want you to be happy with the product they sold you and they want your return business and that of your friends.