To think this is misleading and wrong

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To find it misleading when places say butter but actually use margarine. Today for example I went to a sandwich shop and was asked if I wanted butter in my sandwich but then watched her spread out margarine. If I hadn’t been running late for an appointment I would have said something. It’s not the first time it’s happened either people say butter and then use margarine.

Marg makes me heave... Yanbu.

It is but I think in cafes etc they tend to use margarine instead of butter but still call it butter.

To a lot of people they mean the same even though we know it doesn’t

If your noticing it happening regularly can you not just ask if it's butter or margarine?

Are you sure it’s margarine and not spreadable butter?

Margarine is the spread of Satan! Like Flora (shudder). Butter is irreplaceable.

Definitely margarine saw the big tub with utterly buttery on it. Anyway spreadable butter isn’t really 100% butter it’s mixed with oil so it would be nice to know if it was. Also surely for allergies they should state the correct ingredients.

You're not wrong

Eurgh. Like eating vaseline. YANBU.

Margarine is foul, and always seems to be spread with great gobbets of it so you get a mouthful of disgusting slime halfway through a sandwich. Seems a particular problem with egg mayo for some reason.

It's probably because it's dairy free / vegan / whatever so they don't need multiple spreads or allergen declarations. But that doesn't make it taste better.

I can't taste the difference!!

Well you can, but chances are they'll lie about it.

I had this issue in an Asda cafe once. I ordered crumpets and watched the server pull over a giant white tub at which point I asked, 'is that butter' to which she said yes.

So when I ate the crumpets it wasn't butter it was some sort of cheap crappy 'spread'. I returned them and asked for crumpets with butter on, to which they said it was butter, but it wasn't and this was confirmed when they showed me the lid.

So I asked for actual not pretend butter and they said they didn't have any so then I had to very calmly ask for my money back while internally raging that this was a fucking supermarket and just over there they had stacks of the stuff.

Too many companies who serve food have no interest in providing a basic level of quality, which is inexcusable when charging restaurant/cafe prices for it.

I despise this, literally my pet hate. Margarine is vile, byproduct of the petrochemical industry. Butter is from a cow.
If my sandwich has marg, flora, anything that isn't real butter I can't even smell it, nevermind eat it. I always say 'no butter' when it's a more traditional 'caff'. Or I ask if it's real butter, but I do not trust their answers. I worked in a kitchen and we used industrial marg, and for posh stuff we used... clover. I cannot face it in any shape or form!

YANBU. I’ve noticed a lot of places say butter when they mean margarine or some sort of spread as though the words are interchangeable. They’re not, they’re a completely different product.

BYOB