Currently, I eat some butter and some margarine. This give me reason to change to all butter.
We really should go even further and add things like aspartame, saccharine, and anything thing else that isn't what it's pretending to be.When French chemists first created margarine, it was to feed to geese to make goose liver pâté' The geese died. So Napoleon fed the crap to his troops. It turns out that margarine is one molecule away from being "plastic.!' ONE big reason not to consume it,,,; margarine needs no refrigeration.
Butter OTOH does.
When my wife and I married, we both came from poor households that ate Margarine. We agreed, it would never be on our table.
Fifty years later we are both healthy and it, margarine, has never sat in at our dinner.
I cook almost exclusively with butter and olive oils. Better than a pound a week of the creamy yellow gift from God. Oddly, I don't put it on my bread.
I place margarine in the same category as Fructose' Not fit for human consumption.
We really should go even further and add things like aspartame, saccharine, and anything thing else that isn't what it's pretending to be.
And screw those assholes who try to make turkey into bacon while we're at it.
Like Franc, I grew up in a poor household. We ate margarine. My father used to call it "butter's brother". Sorry dad, not even close but a good try at convincing me. When I got out on my own margarine never graced my table again. That has been 50 years now and no regrets what-so-ever.
Joe, I'm no fan of turkey bacon but when I worked in Egypt it was all that we could get for breakfast. For the lack of anything else that came anywhere close to the real thing I got to tolerate it and ate it every morning. When I landed in Frankfurt on the way home my first stop was at any restaurant that served an "English Breakfast". Oh! I used to savor every bite.
Like Franc, I grew up in a poor household. We ate margarine. My father used to call it "butter's brother". Sorry dad, not even close but a good try at convincing me. When I got out on my own margarine never graced my table again. That has been 50 years now and no regrets what-so-ever.
Joe, I'm no fan of turkey bacon but when I worked in Egypt it was all that we could get for breakfast. For the lack of anything else that came anywhere close to the real thing I got to tolerate it and ate it every morning. When I landed in Frankfurt on the way home my first stop was at any restaurant that served an "English Breakfast". Oh! I used to savor every bite.
I'm 72 and have spent a little more than you on pharmaceuticals. Yes, I do remember the white sh!t.I grew up during WW II. By no means wealthy. Butter was both out of our budget and not always available. Anybody else remember the white margarine that came in a plastic bag with a color capsule that you massaged into the margarine with your hands?
I'm 81, still buy very little that comes in a box. Salt nothing. Haven't seen margarine or Crisco in decades, and have run up a lifetime drug bill of less than a hundred bucks. I'll stick with my plan for 15 or so more years.
And don't forget cooking!!!! I know that extra virgin olive oil is trendy these days and we use it a lot but there are some things that just taste better when cooked in butter.