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What's amazing about the chart is that combined butter and margarine usage was about twenty pounds per person in 1980 and less than nine pounds in 2010. Has the use of oils increased enough to make up the difference or is total consumption of all fats down?
What's amazing about the chart is that combined butter and margarine usage was about twenty pounds per person in 1980 and less than nine pounds in 2010. Has the use of oils increased enough to make up the difference or is total consumption of all fats down?
Haven't had it in 30 years. Never bought it when I got married. Tastes like plastic and doesn't melt unless you buy the butter /olive oil blend by land o lakes.
wasn't margarine the much healthier alternative to butter ??
a neighborhood kid use to eat that country crock straight out of the tub, with a fork...
That seriously made my gag reflex kick in, just thinking about it. My parents tried margarine for about a month when I was around 8 or so. I don't think I ate anything made with it happily for that entire month (of course I ate it, I wasn't given a choice). In mashed potatoes, in mac and cheese, whatever, I could smell and taste the difference. It's the smell that gets me first, it's just so off-putting.
Are the newer "spreads" like Smart Balance margarine or are they something else?
I find SB Original OK as something to spread on bread or toast, when I don't want to wait for the butter to soften, but for cooking or for eating oatmeal give me butter every time. Compared to a calorie-equivalent serving of butter, though, SB doesn't go half as far flavor wise.
I, too, grew up in a margarine only household as this was during the great Cholesterol Panic of the 1960s and 70s. I'd sooner eat my toast dry than ingest Hollywood Margarine again, if it still exists.
We use a lot of Smart Balance too, but it cannot be used for frying, or something like grilled cheese, because it is mostly water, not oil.
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My parents tried margarine for about a month when I was around 8 or so. I don't think I ate anything made with it happily for that entire month (of course I ate it, I wasn't given a choice). In mashed potatoes, in mac and cheese, whatever, I could smell and taste the difference. It's the smell that gets me first, it's just so off-putting.
