Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cindy Hamilton Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 16:23:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hamilton@invalid.com Injection-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:23:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7c0c37d93cbcb8c7f6d251967f8bbb0a"; logging-data="2052869"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18osb6LuyKwP65JdMgFFQkgvJWY07OWW4g=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g83aFBEUNkJ+GuhxUtT3/fWnlTY= Bytes: 2887 On 2025-03-04, Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-03-04 9:58 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote: >> On 2025-03-04, Ed P wrote: >> >>> First time I ever put margarine on toads what in my 30s. We were >>> staying with friends and that is what was on the table at breakfast. >> >> Lucky you. My mother bought the cheapest margarine. It wasn't >> even cut up into sticks. If memory serves, it was 19 cents per >> pound in the 1970s. Of course, she used to tell me how, when >> she was a kid, she had to mix in the dye to make it look less >> like vegetable shortening. > > That margarine with the dye packs was gross. > Some people actually prefer margarine. It's hard to believe. It probably has a more "buttery" flavor. Most people prefer what they're used to. > I confess > to preferring it for grilled cheese and with Buffalo wings sauce. When > it comes to spreading on bread I prefer butter. Heck, I insist on > butter. If there is only margarine I will eat it plain. I might add > that, unlike a lot of people here, I prefer unsalted butter. Margarine as a substitute for butter is not as bad a Miracle Whip as a substitute for mayonnaise. At least, to my taste buds. I use salted butter and almost always add salt on top of that. I don't do it every time, but sometimes I add salt to toast, butter, and jam. On top of the jam. I haven't bought margarine in 45 years, except to lube the outside of a whole pig while it's roasting. >> We had butter on holidays. Looking back, it was cruel. > My mother tried foisting margarine on us once. It was a failure. I didn't get any choice. It was just her and me, and "Because I'm the mother" was a valid reason for anything. -- Cindy Hamilton