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Butter or Margarine?

Butter, margarine, or...

  • Butter

    Votes: 61 69.3%

  • Margarine

    Votes: 15 17.0%

  • Nothing

    Votes: 4 4.5%

  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 8 9.1%
  • Total voters
    88
I can't stand margarine. MY grandmother used to use A LOT of it, and every time I'd spend the night at her place I didn't have a choice (and hated it when I was little). As I got older, I learned how they made it and wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot limbo pole.

So, easy answer is I use butter. Not a whole, but for cooking, toast, etc. Butter.
 
Butter. Real butter. Not that spreadable stuff.
So creamy and yummy. Goes fantastic with a bacon butty.

So I have real butter and full fat milk religiously yet I'm still underweight :mad:
 
melrose said:
I can't stand margarine. MY grandmother used to use A LOT of it, and every time I'd spend the night at her place I didn't have a choice (and hated it when I was little). As I got older, I learned how they made it and wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot limbo pole.

So, easy answer is I use butter. Not a whole, but for cooking, toast, etc. Butter.
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My grandmother uses Spray-on butter flavor! :eek:

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I thought it was cool when I was like 7...but I have learned the truth since then...
 
Other; explanation:

I do not use butter or margarine on my foods very often (i.e. on bread, toast, etc.). However, there are times when such a substance is necessary (i.e. baking, other forms of cooking). And for those tasks, butter is the undisputed winner and I would never, ever use margarine. It just does not have the proper chemical makeup to be successful in cooking.
 
I maybe alone here but I like the taste of Margarine better. Plus it's much easier to spread when cold.
 
Margarine is the most disgusting, artificial tasting load of junk ever invented by man, whereas butter tastes like a slice of heaven :D
 
I prefer butter, but neither are paragons of good health: butter is high in saturated fats, which can lead to heart disease; margarine is extremely high in free radicals due to the process by which it's made. Free radicals cause all kinds of nastiness in the body, including cancer. Fortunately, I'm an olive and olive-oil fanatic, so that is my main source of dietary fat from everything to baking, to dipping bread, to popcorn. For an unbelievable treat, try air-popped popcorn with good-quality olive oil (not Bertolli or the mass-produced stuff)—go to a gourmet market—and add sea salt.

Finally, why eat something manmade when you can eat something that's natural and tastes so much better. One thing man refuses to acknowledge—at his peril (hello Monsanto)—is nature's superiority in feeding us.

For more information, check out http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/heart-disease.htm
 
mashny said:
I prefer butter, but neither are paragons of good health: butter is high in saturated fats, which can lead to heart disease; margarine is extremely high in free radicals due to the process by which it's made. Free radicals cause all kinds of nastiness in the body, including cancer. Fortunately, I'm an olive and olive-oil fanatic, so that is my main source of dietary fat from everything to baking, to dipping bread, to popcorn. For an unbelievable treat, try air-popped popcorn with good-quality olive oil (not Bertolli or the mass-produced stuff)—go to a gourmet market—and add sea salt.

Finally, why eat something manmade when you can eat something that's natural and tastes so much better. One thing man refuses to acknowledge—at his peril (hello Monsanto)—is nature's superiority in feeding us.

For more information, check out http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/heart-disease.htm
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I love olive oil (even though I don't particularly like olives) and use it a lot. I don't use any salad dressing other than olive oil and a little balsamic or red wine vinegar...delicious. I like the olive-oil popcorn idea, I'll have to try that.
 
Butter. I absolutely cannot eat margarine since I switched to butter (when I moved out and started buying my own groceries).
 
In a vain attempt to control both my cholesterol and my salt intake, I use margarine at home.

But, when out and about, it makes the butter experience so much more rewarding.
 
Butter all the way. Eating, cooking, baking - butter beats margarine all of the way, for taste, properties, sheer natural goodness. The ingredient list of margarine is frightening; at least butter is natural, and if one is bothered about weight/calories, simply eat less of it.

I had a version of this conversation recently with a Norwegian friend and her Irish partner who is one of my oldest friends; we were helping ourselves to a well stocked cheese-board (products from small cheese producers), with butter, (no margarine chateau nous), Ripasso Valpolicello wine and French (real French) bread in my house and the Norwegian remarked, eyeing the butter, "I like the calories I eat to be good calories". I couldn't agree more.
Cheers
 
OutThere said:
I love olive oil (even though I don't particularly like olives) and use it a lot. I don't use any salad dressing other than olive oil and a little balsamic or red wine vinegar...delicious. I like the olive-oil popcorn idea, I'll have to try that.
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Ummmm, olive oil on toast, the absolute best!

I still use butter occasionally, mostly for cooking, but when it comes to oil, olive is the only kind that I buy.
 
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