My mum used to put stork on our bread

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Was that par for the course during the seventies? Or unreasonable?

In 20 years, will there be a thread on MN named
'when I was young my mum spread shit called 'I can't believe its not butter' on my bread'?

I'm put out that no one was impressed by my Mum being on Leslie Crowther's Stork taste test. sniff

My mother would only use Stork for baking as it was common, we also had Krona which was the worst of all worlds, as it didnt taste like butter but was rock solid so didnt spread like marg!

I remember the ads for Stork where a woman said "you just need something to moisten the bread!" I remember it because comedians had a field day with it :o

Was that the ad I just mentioned Burning?!

I am impressed!

Burning I'm in silent awe

link didn't work cos I'm running a scan

Ooh, Burning, I missed that. I'm impressed!

Ooh and I have just remembered that my grandma used a marg in a white tub with a weirdy blue pattern on it and I preferred that to the manky Krona my mum bought, i used to eat it raw out of the tub.....BARF

BurningBridges - I'm impressed!

Could your mum tell it was Stork?

Bruce Forsyth used to advertise Stork. He used to encourage ladies to "try it with nothing on" Oo, er Mrs!

I actually used to like stork on bread

Burning - I'm impressed.

My mum used to buy outline, our next door neighbours had Gold and That was awful too! Best thing was going to my grandparents at the weekend as they used proper butter!

I don't buy margarine ever, I only use butter. I blame my mum for forcing yellow spreadable plastic on me as a child.

What is wrong with real butter exactly?

I know that high fat blah blah is bad for us, but most of us only have a scraping on bread or a bit in a baked spud. There are 8 people in this house with 4 adults (well 3 and a teen) and we only get through one "OMG is this not butter? REally?! I would never have thought it..." a week, and the only reason I dont buy butter is the cost as we are budgeting atm.

Oh god we had Outline too - totally rank and even worse on cardboard Ryvita.
We have Yeo Valley spreadable butter now - I will no longer use Marg it's just yeuch!!

Thank you - I feel much better now. I don't think she said anything about moistening bread, but it wouldn't surprise me. As far as I know there is no footage of her on You Tube! I have to say it was a long time ago and I suspect she did know it was Stork, and didn't say the right thing, meaning she didn't make it to the final cut!!

There is nothing wrong with proper butter in my opinion, so long as you use it sparingly and not put slabs of it on freshly cut toasted white crusty bread

I am sure that it is actually better for your health than processed spreads too.

The only thing I don't like about real butter is...

If you keep it in the fridge it rips a hole in the bread

If you keep it out of the fridge it turns to oil in the summer

If you stick it in the microwave it spins round innocently, looking like it's getting just soft enough...but when you stick the knife in, it's like you've struck oil and the whole thing collapses into an oily mess

I think my mum only ever used Stork for baking/cakes. I'm sure we had Anchor butter.

Now we have Countrylife spreadable, partly because it tastes nice, and partly because DD1 has got the family on a "buy British and support British farmers" kick.

Does anyone know the name of a marg that was yellow in the pot, but turned an orangy colour when spread on toast? DD1 is convinced she can remember having it at my parents' house but I've not got a clue what she's talking about.

"Wake up in the mornin, wantin some breakfast.
Want somethin special to spread on my toast.
Ooh, oooh, VITALITE!"

Oh, the Nimble bread!!

My dad bought my brother a loaf of it because he said my brother needed to lose a bit of weight.

My brother ate the whole loaf in one sitting, thinking it would make him slimmer like the advert said

I bake with Stork. All my cakes disappear before I have a chance to eat any myself round this house so it's clearly not bothering anyone....

And back home in Holland Blue Band is still the main brand of margerine! My mum always has it in. Tastes fine to me to be honest....

Rather than the Vitalite ad, I liked the one that was advertising earphones or something?

A guy used to hold cue cards up while that song was played and it said "Me ears are alight"

Worra, I use a butter dish, and in the summer I chop off a quarter of the block and just put that in the dish, and keep it in the microwave which tends to stop it going too soft.

My tip for softening it in the microwave is just cut a bit off the block then heat it on defrost for ten seconds and you dont get the oily puddle!

Actually I should add that I don't have a microwave....I was just having a rant

Was about to post that Squeaky, put it in on defrost, and only the amount you need :)

:o!

"I dont drive, but I am so angry at all the people that dont indicate at roundabouts!" :o

The non indicating fuckers!!

I hope their butter melts before they get home!