On 6/18/2014 4:12 PM, Terrence Crimmins wrote:
> I prefer butter, and don't like to eat thickened oil. If the recipe calls for oil, I use oil, or butter, etc. I used to work in restaurants, and some of them have what's called 60/40, which is 60% margarine 40% butter (or maybe the other way around.) They do that to save money, as butter, of course, is more expensive.
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> I'm getting to be an old fogey, I guess, and remember the old days when there was a milk man. On the other hand, that was when the margarine craze started. Odd, eh?
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Margarine was invented a *long* time ago.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/25638...tory-margarine


Despite the subject line, I don't see any "generational battles" going
on. The history is interesting.

Some people like margarine. I'm not one of them. When my mom was
growing up her parents bought it because it was cheaper and more readily
available during WWII. When I was growing up it Mom bought it because
it was a cheaper product and because she was used to it. No one thought
a thing about it. We only got butter [at the time] for holiday dinners.

It wasn't until I was an adult and noticed the prices were roughly the
same I started buying butter. Why was this only for holidays? That's
the only "generational" difference in my upbringing. Margarine was
cheaper and Mom was being thrifty.

I don't use a lot of it so it doesn't really matter. I have observed
most "margarine" these days is just as expensive, if not more so, than
actual butter.

For those who have a problem with spreading cold butter on bread... take
it out of the fridge ahead of time. This has been discussed *ad naseum*
over the years.

Jill