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I visited my sister for dinner and she served one of those "super healthy" margarines to spread on the steaming hot baked potatoes. I put a pat of that margarine on my potato and it absolutely refused to melt. I kept exclaiming in amazement, "It won't melt!?!?! It won't melt?!?!" She got annoyed with me for criticizing her margarine choice. But I think that proves the "margarine is plastic" crowd is correct.
I don't know what kind of crap your sister was using, but it sure wasn't normal margarine. I would never EVER use anything other than Parkay or Blue Bonnet. And of COURSE margarine melts. It's the other "hearlt healthy" stuff that doesn't melt, such as Smart Balance, (which are more accurately called "spreads" that don't behave/taste like butter (or margarine) and you can keep those!
Like many, I grew up on margarine. In fact we called it butter. Older generations called it "oleo".
My wife uses Smart Balance. Is that margarine? I only know it's not butter and it's sold in the butter aisle.
I hear tell that in the state of Wisconsin, a big dairy state, margarine was not allowed to be dyed yellow until some time in the 1950's. Prior to that, wherever it was sold they gave you a yellow dye pack to mix into the white stuff to make it look like butter! In the 1930's, state food boards began allowing dye to be added at the factory.
I only buy butter. It is a natural food, margarine isn't.
Sometimes I'll make a healthier, cost-cutting butter spread by combining a pound of butter (at room temperature) with a cup of grape seed oil, which is tasteless (unlike Olive oil) and just as healthy as Olive oil.
Nutritional value of grape seed oil: Grape Seed Oil Nutritional Information |
Place your butter and oil into a large mixing bowl along with 2 tsp of salt (or more or less to taste) and using an electric mixer, whirl at high speed until well combined. Then divide it into small tupperware containers, store them in the fridge, leaving one on the counter for use. When left at room temperature, it spreads like butter and tastes just like butter. It is also good to fry food in since grape seed oil has a moderately high smoking point.
If the room temperature mixture starts to separate during hot weather, just pop it into the fridge for 5-10 minutes and give it a few quick stirs with a fork.
I started doing that in the 1970s. It wasn't grape seed oil at the time, but something else. You couldn't find grape seen oil in a store at the time. The "recipe", which I found in a cookbook, was named Better Butter.
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Grew up using real butter~ know it was as I had to milk the cow and shake the jar to form the butter. Do not use real butter now as Dr. told me not too a few years ago. She suggested using margarine if I wanted to spread something on my bread. Guess this advice is frowned upon by many of the posters on this site but I'll stick with following my Dr's orders.
Of course people still buy and use margarine. Just because a few health nuts or naturalists or whatever they call themselves had some real butter doesnt mean the masses banned margarine from being consumed by others. I use margarine as well as does practically everyone else in my family plus friends and neighbors. I also eat processed foods and go to McDonald's on occasion.
I dont see how its a problem. Unless its one of those "I buy the best so I think everyone else should too" beliefs.
Grew up using real butter~ know it was as I had to milk the cow and shake the jar to form the butter. Do not use real butter now as Dr. told me not too a few years ago. She suggested using margarine if I wanted to spread something on my bread. Guess this advice is frowned upon by many of the posters on this site but I'll stick with following my Dr's orders.
A friend ate toast dry...I thought, ick!
Now I order my toast dry, TOO...(when I EVER do carbs at all, that is)...at home I have
spread peanut butter or
some other Health Food Store nut butter...if I even had bread in the house!
Of course people still buy and use margarine.
Just because a few health nuts or naturalists or whatever they call themselves had some real butter doesnt mean the masses banned
margarine from being consumed by others.
I use margarine as well as does practically everyone else in my family plus friends and neighbors.
I also eat processed foods and go to McDonald's on occasion.
I dont see how its a problem. Unless its one of those "I buy the best so I think
everyone else should too" beliefs.
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