philm Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Sorry for length but it's worth the read! This is interesting . .. . Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings. DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end...gets very interesting! Both have the same number of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years . And now, for Margarine.. Very High in Trans fatty acids.. Triples risk of coronary heart disease . Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) Increases the risk of cancers up to five times. Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response. And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance). You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things: * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something) * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weensy microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')! Chinese Proverb: When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 (edited) Modern soft tub margarine has no trans fats at all. Infinitely preferable to butter. I detest butter in cooking, it tastes sickly. I only use it to "moisten" bread, too dry otherwise. And I have no moral obligation to share anything with anyone. Edited December 22, 2009 by Chard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumpersniper Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 yea people please buy more butter and in fact all other dairy products ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 BUTTER for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 I haven't read the post all the way to the end, I don't need too. Butter tastes better to me and thats all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Butter on unsliced bread toasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Butter all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie mac Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Butter all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boromir Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Butter and toast :good: going to make some now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christy Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Rem visiting the one educated friend I have (I am not) and he produced butter for our morning toast...I said hey very fattening Andy. He replied, if you are going to spread fat on your bread might as well taste good. I rest my case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shot shot Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 butter fried eggs butter every time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Butter and a traditional butter dish (when I can spread it on my bread without ripping it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 starting to feel very peckish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burntout Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 I only like butter when it's melted - the thought of a chunk of it on bread makes me gag a little. However, you melt some with some garlic over some prawns and you've won me over. Strange that, comes from as a child when I was made to work in a dairy farm - father used to churn the butter by dangling me from the beams. Times were hard in the 80's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 BUTTER every time. I can recall home made butter by my grandmother and that was something else entirely. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Cant stand margarine.Always found its got a bizzare taste,but not quite as horrible as 'St-Ivel Gold'-which in my opinion is horrible. Butter me up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROBLATCH Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 lurpak for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 (edited) Irish butter is food of the gods I eat nothing else . A good friend of mine worked for a very large company that makes most of the worlds margarine and told me that after knowing whats in the stuff he banned it from his house hold . He said that if the manufactures applied for a food licence to make the stuff today it would be banned and would only be used as an industrial lubricant . Lashings of irish butter on toast can make a man stiff all over . Harnser . Edited December 23, 2009 by Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulpicide Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 Fresh butter and crusty bread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Potter Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 It wasn't margarine that Marlon Brando reached for in Last Tango in Paris was it . She would have thrown him of the Eiffel Tower if he had used Stork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 I'm not all that bothered about the healthy side of things. I eat butter (kerrygold is my favourite) because it tastes better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted December 25, 2009 Report Share Posted December 25, 2009 marge for me mikky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bangs Posted December 25, 2009 Report Share Posted December 25, 2009 Butter for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delbert Posted December 25, 2009 Report Share Posted December 25, 2009 * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even thoseteeny weensy microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic Blue green mould will happily grow upon it once it overcomes the preservative, nothing grows on honey so by the same argument that must have no nutritional value, the whole thing sounds very much like butter marketing pseudoscience. Really since transfatty acids have been removed from the process what is left that is a health risk SAFA? ( Saturated fat) known to cause atherosclerosis can't be that as butter contains more than 8 times as much as soft marg cholestrol? 30 times as much in butter (trace amounts in soft marg) even that is a tiny amount , you can counter pretty well anything with statements made by the interested parties just eat what you like but not to excess BTW Its nearly plastic ooh it contains long chain polymers nope then again any organic compound is a step away from plastic because it contains carbon chains all to need to do is link them like in Cellulose you know the stuff plants are made of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted December 25, 2009 Report Share Posted December 25, 2009 (edited) Blue green mould will happily grow upon it once it overcomes the preservative, nothing grows on honey so by the same argument that must have no nutritional value, the whole thing sounds very much like butter marketing pseudoscience. Really since transfatty acids have been removed from the process what is left that is a health risk SAFA? ( Saturated fat) known to cause atherosclerosis can't be that as butter contains more than 8 times as much as soft marg cholestrol? 30 times as much in butter (trace amounts in soft marg) even that is a tiny amount , you can counter pretty well anything with statements made by the interested parties just eat what you like but not to excess BTW Its nearly plastic ooh it contains long chain polymers nope then again any organic compound is a step away from plastic because it contains carbon chains all to need to do is link them like in Cellulose you know the stuff plants are made of. Precisely Edited December 25, 2009 by Chard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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