BF just called me a stuck up bitch.

[DextroDependant]

My dear other half offered me some toast, or which I took one bite and refused to eat..... He had used margarine not butter.

He said I am a stuck up bitch. in a light hearted jokey manner

So would you decline toast made with Marg?

For us to be able to decide if he is right e'd need more details.

Was the bread a basic white type or did you demand whole grain or multi seeded?

I'll have anything on toast. It's just lubrication for the marmite.

Seems a touchy subject for some, I never imagined!

Bread was wholemeal.. we don't have white .

I just remembered the time he brought Elmea instead of cream too. Time to get rid!!

Wholemeal and butter means you are intelligent and right.

If you'd said pumpernickel or some thing he would have been right but would still need shooting for using marg,

Elmlea!

Faints

YADNBU

But why the hell is there marg in the house?!

LTB

love the butter

When I was little we always had butter because although we didn't have a lot of money my mother thought that margarine was not good for us. She was sometimes right about things.

If anyone here thinks that most of the olive oil spreads are still healthy please take a look at the ingredients on the tub. It is practically impossible to find one that is actually olive oil and not with added palm or rapeseed oil. Palm oil is not healthy so you are not buying what you thought. I used to buy Olivio when it WAS made of olive oil and went back to find it recently, and it is no longer the healthy option it pretends to be. This led to looking at all the others on the shelf and finding that there wasn't one.

Most margarines haven't had any trans fats in for years.

Transphobes?

I think that some people on here are confusing the word “margarine” used as a catch-all term for any type of spread that is not butter, running the gamut of olive oil spreads, Flora, Utterly Butterly, dairy free spreads, Benecol etc and old-fashioned margarine which is basically plastic and probably illegal or something. I don’t think many things actually say “margarine” any more.

I remember LOVING St Ivel Gold as a child. I saw the error of my ways many years ago and it’s lovely salty yellow butter all the way for me now.

Joining the marg lovers! What's with all the butter obsession? It's absolutely crap to spread on bread (even if you always leave it out of the fridge it never spreads properly which is a bit pants when you're wanting a sandwich and it just rips the bread to shreds!)
Then if you do manage to get it to spread, it always goes on too thickly and you end up with a thick layer of the stuff rendering your sandwich sickly.
Bleurgh. No thanks.

But if you have decent bread, butter will spread very nicely at room temperature. If you use plastic bread you get what you deserve... DH is aggressively northern and insists on spread and crappy cheap white sliced.

Some of you marg defenders are missing the point. I am not a vegan, therefore have no need for 'vegan butter' (i.e. marg). The fact that some people are dairy intolerant does not make marg any less revolting or butter any less delicious.

And no, marg is not more healthy than butter. It's an artificial, processed product which has had the fat (which is not bad for you) replaced with horrible stuff (which is bad for you).

study published in the British Medical Journal found “increased rates of death” among men with heart disease who replaced saturated fat with omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, also known as linoleic acid. Linoleic is a widely used polyunsaturated fat found in high amounts in vegetable oils such as corn, sunflower, safflower and soybean, and in margarines made from these oils. Another study this year by the University of Cambridge found that saturated fat in dairy foods might protect against diabetes, while a major study by McMaster University in Canada failed to find a link between saturated fat and ill health.

Dr Malhotra urges consumers to stick with butter, avoid margarine and include extra virgin olive oil (“it’s a medicine”) and a handful of nuts in their daily diet to reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, dementia and cancer.
Saturated fat isn't bad for you. The crap people replace it with is bad for you.

In the States you can get deep fried butter (in the style of a deep fried mars bar here) - you butter lovers would be in heaven.

Lurpack has always been used by gran, mum and me. My mum in law helpfully gave me a bacon sandwich, the margarine was spread thickly and was melting with the hot, fatty, non crispy bacon. I had to eat it, just think about it makes me want to be sick.

Elmlea?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ok I really didn't know the difference I buy eat I can afford butter margarine all same to me

I hate butter, and anything else dairy, don't like margarine either

DD2 likes margarine though, butter is too expensive anyway, what's so wrong with margarine?

I don't like toast either, not keen on bread at all really, if there was just me in the house, I wouldn't buy any dairy produce at all, or any kind of bread

We have Lurpak. Is that butter? I feel quite stressed about this all of a sudden

TeaAndToast deep breaths....... and...... calm. Lurpack is indeed butter. It's not my favourite as I like a salty Anchor but purists will probably tell you that it is the best butter, bar French ones. .

TeaAndToast Lurpak just about passes, as it is mostly butter. You're sort of like the 99%ers

Margarine above 80% fat, spread below, iirc.