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To think this is misleading and wrong

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Pregnancysick · 29/04/2024 18:50

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.

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Dareisayiseethesunshine · 29/04/2024 18:51

Marg makes me heave... Yanbu.

Soubriquet · 29/04/2024 18:51

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

Plump82 · 29/04/2024 18:51

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

BrightLightTonight · 29/04/2024 18:58

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

DanielGault · 29/04/2024 19:17

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

Pregnancysick · 29/04/2024 19:18

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.

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Tigertigertigertiger · 29/04/2024 19:20

You're not wrong

SwanRonsen · 29/04/2024 19:24

Eurgh. Like eating vaseline. YANBU.

PuddingPau · 10/05/2024 11:54

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GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 10/05/2024 12:00

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.

ReecesProblems · 10/05/2024 12:01

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CatamaranViper · 10/05/2024 12:06

I can't taste the difference!!

Bjorkdidit · 10/05/2024 12:16

Plump82 · 29/04/2024 18:51

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

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.

BobbyBiscuits · 10/05/2024 12:27

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!

Youdontevengohere · 10/05/2024 12:30

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.

C1N1C · 10/05/2024 12:32

BYOB

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