Boo on margarine.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Just saw a "I can't believe it's not butter" ad on TV, and it made me seriously have the need to do a "BOO ON MARGARINE!" shout out!

BOOOOOOOOOOOO margarine! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


Only butter for me. No margarine. Ick!

[hippywife]

1. They have the worst commercials!!

Try Brummel and Brown...made with yogurt, no transfats, and tastes really, really good even tho it's now owned by the same people who put out those unbelievably stupid commercials.

http://www.brummelandbrown.com/

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Just don't ever smell it.....Phhheeeeeeooooouuuuu

It tastes great, yet smells rancid. :hi:

[hippywife]

5. Really?

We've been using it for a couple of years now and I've never noticed. 'course, never stuck my nose in it either! :P :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. My grandpa got me to like it about 5 years ago. It was great on

toast and then for some stupid reason, I smelled it. Whooo.... :hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Triple BOO! (Just for you!)

[sendero]

4. Butter is probably...

.. more healthful than the horrible hydrogenated oils in margarine.

And butter actually tastes good!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I think so - I'm sure that natural butter is far, far, far more healthy

than chemicalized shit.

Except, of coruse, to those people who have a medical condition that makes butter horrendously dangerous to them.

[sendero]

8. Yes..

.... we must reflect in somber compassion for those who have butteroliosis and have to eat margarine. It must be a heavy burden to bear :)

[Left Is Write]

13. Butter, used judiciously, is better for you than margarine, yes.

And it tastes soooooo good.

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. No mixing bowl needed

to color your margarine!

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. I remember when I was a kid, and yellow margarine was illegal in WI

People going across the border (I think they had to cross the border) to get the yellow coloring food packets, or just buy yellow margarine.

[CanuckAmok]

21. It's still illegal in Quebec.

But, of course, everything is.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Quebec leads the world in some things!

It should be illegal everywhere.

:-)

[youthere]

14. Ha ha! Oh shit I remember that!

We were po' folk and got government cheese, milk, margarine etc..and my brothers and I used to fight over who got to color the "butter".

[lakemonster11]

9. Yeah for olive oil!

I once sat through a dinner where two of the guys at the table started off the meal by getting into a little tiff about whether butter or olive oil was better, and it ended up an hour-plus-long screaming match during which the rest of us quietly tried to drown ourselves in wine.

:crazy:

[AlCzervik]

11. wasn't margarine one of those invented around ww2 like saccharine

so people had subsitute?

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Nope

"Margarine was discovered in 1869 by Hippolyte Mège Mouriès, a French food research chemist, in response to Napoleon III's request for a wholesome butter alternative."

http://www.imace.org/margarine/history.htm

[El Fuego]

12. It used to be a food nazi myth

That margarine was better for you. But who would eat margarine when you can have buttah?????

For me it's only buttahh!!!!

[youthere]

15. I read somewhere that margarine is..

only one molecule from being plastic. Eww.

[shanti]

18. go butter, go butter, go butter!

nary an ounce of margarine (oleo to my mom!) has touched my lips for the past 20 years!!! only the real thing, baby!

[jayctravis]

19. I tried some stuff called "Smart Balance"

Which is supposed to be better for you, replacing the gunky stuff with some healthful omega oils or something ... it was pretty much not at all like butter. I guess it's good if you need to cut cholesterol down.

[bridgit]

20. i can't believe it's not margarine!!!

[mykpart]

22. I'm a heart patient, but I use Land o Lakes

spreadable butter. It's butter mixed with canola oil to make it soft. Tastes great and half the saturated fat of butter. And NO trans-fatty acids.

[flamin lib]

24. Butter is better than Margerine because of the trans fatty acids.

Lard is better than butter because it has less colesterol. Who'd a thoutht??

[Mutley]

25. I used margarine for so long

that butter is too rich for me now. Too bad, butter used to be yummy.

[VaYallaDawg]

26. Worst of all, those godawful Country Crock spots!

Nauseating!!!

[SOteric]

27. In general, I would agree.

Margarine sucks the farts out of dead cows and shouldn't be used by anyone but a vegan as it's less than healthy.

However, as odious as I find their name and their commercials, "I Can't Believe it's Not Butter" isn't actually margarine in the traditional sense. It's soy bean oil; quite healthy.

For the best of both worlds, flavour and health, I tend to make a 50/50 blend of clarified butter and pure canola oil. But I don't use butter very often as I prefer olive oil in most dishes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Mmmmmm.... olive oil

How I love it!!

I rarely cook anything in butter any more, too. Pretty much always olive oil. Though I like a pat of butter on my steak. :-)

[Mr. McD]

28. I agree, I will only use real butter.

Butter:

milk fat (cream),
a little salt



Margarine:

Edible oils,
edible fats,
salt or potassium chloride,
ascorbyl palmitate,
butylated hydroxyanisole,
phospholipids,
tert-butylhydroquinone,
mono- and di-glycerides of fat-forming fatty acids,
disodium guanylate,
diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol,
Propyl, octyl or dodecyl gallate (or mixtures thereof),
tocopherols,
propylene glycol mono- and di-esters,
sucrose esters of fatty acids,
curcumin,
annatto extracts,
tartaric acid,
3,5,trimethylhexanal,
ß-apo-carotenoic acid methyl or ethyl ester,
skim milk powder,
xanthophylls,
canthaxanthin,
vitamins A and D.

[Sequoia]

29. At first I thought it read, "Boo on marriage".

I hate margarine too. I'm going to post a sort of copy cat now.

[wildhorses]

30. margarine is not even real food

indigestible load of crap

[HEyHEY]

31. My buddy told me if people knew how bad margarine was

They would want to rid the world of it

[WillParkinson]

33. Margarine is great....

For us vegans.

We use Willow Run. VERY good.

[thinkingwoman]

37. you vegans are the best

Goddess bless you! Because of you and your buying power, we milk allergy sufferers have an abundance of food choices now!! :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. And while we're at it, let me say a boo on tubs of whipped butter

and a special boo for bottles of "squeezable" margarine.

[thinkingwoman]

35. some of us are allergic to dairy

We'd like margarine please. Beats dry bread, or puking runs to the ER (my only other alternatives).

[Atlas Mugged]

36. I love what the Brits call it

Fish paste.

I loathe margarine. All I've ever used is butter, olive oil and peanut oil. The best thing about butter is, when frying, the milk solids brown so nicely. Nothing can beat it.

[Metta]

38. Lard is less saturated than margarine.

Less than butter, too.

[Fox Mulder]

39. I hate butter and margarine.

Yuck!

[Dangerously Amused]

40. Go here for good butter vs. margarine info:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp