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butter vs margarine

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  • ReaderGirl3
    ReaderGirl3 Posts: 868 Member
    edited March 2016
    It amazes me how in a community where people are supposed to support each other and help each other get to their goals, how many people want to be defensive and argue. I'm allowed my opinion, as you are yours. Anyone can give the OP their opinion, then the OP and anyone who reads it, can do with it what they want. But to turn it into a debate and an argument, it's not necessary. I'm sure you could find research to support almost any opinion. You can't force anyone to agree with yours. Anyone in this thread is free to eat all the margarine they want.

    Anvilhead... From the POF forums?

    You do realize this post is in the Health and Fitness Debate section right?

    Being so smart, you surely realize that it was MOVED to the debate section because it became a debate, and that the original post was just a question. I mean, you did read from the beginning, right? It didn't start off in the debate section or even being a debate. But thanks for that...

    It shows on my feed as being in the Debate section and nowhere in the original post is there any indication that it was moved. That would lead me to believe that I was in fact reading a post that was in the Debate section. So yeah, carry on.
  • AnAbsoluteDiva
    AnAbsoluteDiva Posts: 166 Member
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    What's unreal about oil?

    I understand having a taste preference for one over the other, but that is just silly.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    Ingredients in Country Crock Spread. Please let me know which one is plastic?

    "PURIFIED WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, SALT, LECITHIN (SOY), VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN D3."
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    dulcitonia wrote: »
    Never trust anything that bugs won't even eat.....

    Bugs will eat things that'll kill them.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they'll eat both margarine AND butter.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    Ingredients in Country Crock Spread. Please let me know which one is plastic?

    "PURIFIED WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, SALT, LECITHIN (SOY), VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN D3."

    Maybe she made a mistake and took a bite out of the container instead?
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    Ingredients in Country Crock Spread. Please let me know which one is plastic?

    "PURIFIED WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, SALT, LECITHIN (SOY), VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN D3."

    Technically, you could probably make plastic out of margarine or butter, since plastic is a broad term, and often refers to malleable polymers derived from hydrocarbons, which margarine and butter are.
  • melissa6771
    melissa6771 Posts: 894 Member
    It amazes me how in a community where people are supposed to support each other and help each other get to their goals, how many people want to be defensive and argue. I'm allowed my opinion, as you are yours. Anyone can give the OP their opinion, then the OP and anyone who reads it, can do with it what they want. But to turn it into a debate and an argument, it's not necessary. I'm sure you could find research to support almost any opinion. You can't force anyone to agree with yours. Anyone in this thread is free to eat all the margarine they want.

    Anvilhead... From the POF forums?

    You do realize this post is in the Health and Fitness Debate section right?

    Being so smart, you surely realize that it was MOVED to the debate section because it became a debate, and that the original post was just a question. I mean, you did read from the beginning, right? It didn't start off in the debate section or even being a debate. But thanks for that...

    It shows on my feed as being in the Debate section and nowhere in the original post is there any indication that it was moved. That would lead me to believe that I was in fact reading a post that was in the Debate section. So yeah, carry on.

    Yet, you offered no information, input or any opinion on the actual subject other than to call me out for something you thought I did/said wrong. So many people on here looking to just be right or looking for others to be wrong. It's amazing
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    lithezebra wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    Ingredients in Country Crock Spread. Please let me know which one is plastic?

    "PURIFIED WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, SALT, LECITHIN (SOY), VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN D3."

    Technically, you could probably make plastic out of margarine or butter, since plastic is a broad term, and often refers to malleable polymers derived from hydrocarbons, which margarine and butter are.

    Hmmm, so would homemade plastic qualify as clean? And would a bug eat it?
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    edited March 2016
    kimny72 wrote: »
    So I have to leave all my food on the porch and wait to see what the bugs go for before I can decide what to eat? This is getting complicated...

    Wait...if I'm trying to eat clean, does bug-filled butter count?

    ETA: I guess it does. Bugs are natural, right?
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    I would not base food safety on what insects will eat. Many of them have an actual alkaline digestive system instead of acidic. That is very helpful to humans looking for pesticides that are deadly to insects but cannot withstand the acidic environment of a human stomach. Cry protein being one such example.
  • robs_ready
    robs_ready Posts: 1,488 Member
    Mayonnaise.
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    lithezebra wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    one235 wrote: »
    I have read so much about these two things and I still don't know which is better to eat.

    Butter is real food. Margarine is plastic food. Butter is Better.

    Ingredients in Country Crock Spread. Please let me know which one is plastic?

    "PURIFIED WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, SALT, LECITHIN (SOY), VINEGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), VITAMIN D3."

    Technically, you could probably make plastic out of margarine or butter, since plastic is a broad term, and often refers to malleable polymers derived from hydrocarbons, which margarine and butter are.

    Hmmm, so would homemade plastic qualify as clean? And would a bug eat it?

    If there are no arthropods that would eat it, there's probably a eukaryote. Pseudomonas aeruginosa can eat nylon, a polyamide, sort of like a protein.
  • speerickson
    speerickson Posts: 8 Member
    Butter all the way.
  • annajwagner
    annajwagner Posts: 8 Member
    Butter. However, I am biased. I grew up on a dairy farm.

    Same. I never use margarine. I also don't really care for food substitutes generally. Prefer full fat foods also as I enjoy the taste way more and it fills me up better.
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,572 Member
    Butter tastes good, margarine does not.

    In your opinion. It took me many years before I could even stand to eat butter. (Now I like it fine.) My sister to this day cannot eat butter on anything. In a recipe, she is fine with it, but on toast, or a baked potato, she just can't eat it. And I totally understand that, as I used to feel the same way.
  • Yourkindagirl
    Yourkindagirl Posts: 100 Member
    If you have problems with cholesterol as I do, margarine.
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    Butter for us, I never bought margarine even when it was considered healthier. Butter, olive oil, coconut oil, avocados, walnuts, salmon, tuna, occasionally other meats, we like fats in my house. Cholesterol straightened out when I added more nuts and fish and avocado, did not limit fat.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    dulcitonia wrote: »
    Never trust anything that bugs won't even eat.....

    Bugs literally eat crap, so I'm going to have to look elsewhere for culinary references.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    lithezebra wrote: »
    Weirdly, I don't like butter on vegetables, and have olive oil out of preference. It saves me a lot of money I could be spending on Kerrygold.

    That doesn't seem weird to me at all. I like butter on various things (such as fish in a brown butter sauce), but have always preferred olive oil on vegetables. Using too much of it was part of why I gained weight, so learning it is tasty and works just as well in smaller amounts was helpful.

    I wish I could learn this.