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Butter or margarine?
Topic Started: Nov 28 2011, 06:37 AM (1,143 Views)
jon-nyc
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Apple commented that as a kid they only had margarine except on special occasions like thanksgiving. My house was the same way, though it also came out whenever my mom made bread.

Mom did that because margarine was cheaper - but how much cheaper really?


As for me we only buy butter. It just tastes so much better, IMO.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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JBryan
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We also only had margarine when I was a kid and I also only use real butter now. Turns out maragarine isn't all that good for you either.
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I can't believe it's not margarine.
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Mikhailoh
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Margarine sucks. Butter rules. Just don't eat it by the stick.
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O.K. My age kicks in. When I was a kid WWll was with us. Not only was butter rationed, it was hard to come by, even if we had ration stamps. So we got to try this new fangled thing called
Oleomargarine. As even now in their wisdom the Govt. said that
it could not be sold the color of butter. It came with a tiny packet
of powdered food dye. We had to put it in a bowl (room Temp)
and squish it. (hands or fork) A few years later they came out with the sealed pack with the meltable pellet inside. You squeezed it to burst the pellet then kneeded it till yellow.
I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK!


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jon-nyc
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Yeah, my mom told me about mixing the dye in the margarine. The farm lobby has been foul for a long time.


I wonder if margarine is/was really that much cheaper, or was it simply a case of people of that generation growing up thinking it was a luxury because it was rationed during the war?
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Once butter became available again we used it, and gave Oleo up at once. I used butter till the "experts" started on the health reasons of Oleo. Now with the new "experts" changing things I'm getting back to Butter. Have a bunch of the other in the freezer that I have to use up. :mad2:
I don't think it ever was because of money.
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John D'Oh
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Butter's a pain in the ass to spread and since I put Marmite on afterwards I can't really taste in anyway, so I use margarine.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Mikhailoh
Nov 28 2011, 06:47 AM
Margarine sucks. Butter rules. Just don't eat it by the stick.
What if it's deep fried?

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Renauda
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Nov 28 2011, 06:57 AM
A few years later they came out with the sealed pack with the meltable pellet inside. You squeezed it to burst the pellet then kneeded it till yellow.
I remember those. Owing to the power of the provincial dairy lobby only undyed margarine could be sold here in grocery stores until the mid 1960's. If you wanted to dye it, you had to dye yourself at home.
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apple
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i would never use margarine now..

i use butter for cooking and on fresh baked bread sometimes. i need to buy some marmite or vegemite.. It's like a million bucks in KC tho. .. maybe I'll check on ebay.

on top of butter it is exquisite. yum yum yum
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Just ate a fortune cookie. Inside, it had the following 2-sided note. Thought it was quite timely:

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jon-nyc
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I was sincerely ignorant about how to say butter in chinese.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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JBryan
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Translates roughly as milk oil.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Mikhailoh
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The things one learns on TNCR.
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apple
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sooo.. i am having a peanut butter and milk oil sandwich with home made raspberry jam.
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Mark
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I love butter.

The only non-butter butter substitute I ever use is Smart Balance.
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Horace
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Only butter now, margarine when I was a kid.
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John D'Oh
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Are you guys talking about real butter, the stuff that sets hard in the fridge, or the spreadable stuff?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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jon-nyc
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Real butter
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Renauda
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Unsalted butter.
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kenny
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I have never bought margarine, not even once.

I buy unsalted butter from Trader Joe's because it's made from milk from cows not treated with rBST.

That said I keep trying to not buy it and just substitute olive oil, peanut butter or nothing instead.
I'll be butter-less for a year or so, but then I keep going back to buying it.

Butter is so fricking yummie.
IMHO, there's no comfort food that tops real butter on bread or toast.
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Optimistic
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No margarine. Whatīs in that stuff, anyway?

I use butter for baking, but thatīs it. Give me olive oil over butter on my bread any day.
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apple
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it's a good thing I avoid it mostly because otherwise i'd be super fatsy.

Did anyone make those donuts out of biscuits..?

you would cut a hole with a bottle cap in the middle of the biscuit then fry the donut ring in oil.. then shake it in powdered sugar. my mom must have had a sweet tooth because we had this more than occasionally... you'd fry the balls separately.
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sue
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real butter, unsalted

I use a lot of olive oil, so don't go through a lot of butter, but I buy the good stuff.

always had butter at home as a kid (salted kind); I don't think I ever saw margarine until I was living on my own. We had powdered skim milk :dead: and lots of other cost cutting foods (tang :dead: :dead: ), but there was always butter.
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