GBAChef: Butter or margarine?

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We have a lot of other breads
We're still eating about 50/50 white/wheat, with real bread (specialty) falling way below.
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Odd, we rarely have white bread in my house
It's almost like your 1 example of american home life isn't representative of the entire country's population :wacko:
 

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In America bread is a vehicle for other flavors. That's why we eat white processed bread (read tasteless bread).
I wish it was tasteless; nearly all the stuff I tried over there had sugar in which is truly vile.

Also re Jelly on toast. I know what was meant but I still pictured what is known in the UK as jelly (in the US it would be called Jello but here is only comes in sweet flavours... always remember my mistake at a salad bar over there).
 
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I wish it was tasteless; nearly all the stuff I tried over there had sugar in which is truly vile.

Also re Jelly on toast. I know what was meant but I still pictured what is known in the UK as jelly (in the US it would be called Jello but here is only comes in sweet flavours... always remember my mistake at a salad bar over there).
Yeah I always laugh to myself when I hear of someone putting jelly on toast. Jelly is something you eat for dessert with ice cream or fruit :-p
 

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I use butter for sandwiches, baked potatoes and stuff like that.

If i'm baking a cake or something, Margarine.
 

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For me it depends. I grew up on "brummel and brown" (yogurt based) and "gold-n-soft" (margarine) so I am somewhat biased to those. Butter is good sometimes. "Land-o-lakes" is better for cooking than eating.

It also depends on the bread for me. French bread and French toast is always butter, but nearly everything else is either "gold-n-soft" or "brummel and brown".

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Yeah I always laugh to myself when I hear of someone putting jelly on toast. Jelly is something you eat for dessert with ice cream or fruit :-p

Jelly is used interchangeable with jam in America for the most part. Jelly is usually more liquidy than jam and jam usually has pieces of fruit in it, whereas jelly does not. Smuckers is the best Jelly and San Juan island makes the best jam.

Jello is completely different.

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Right so i only ever like butter in things like Jacket Potatoes(weird i now but it is a homemade recipe) or in my Parantha's.
But for everything else (like bread and juicy eggs) i always use margarine.

So i am a fan of both but if i had to chose one then butter simply because it is used in more dishes that i like to eat. But i do like margarine more than butter. :wacko:
 

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I use butter for sandwiches, baked potatoes and stuff like that.

If i'm baking a cake or something, Margarine.
I'm the same.
While margarine and similar were developed to be butter substitutes they don't taste the same (it's not bad, but certainly not the same) so when I know that I'll get the butter taste with the food, I use actual butter, when it used to give some fat to a recipe (like with a simple cake) I use margarine.
Thankfully in Brazil in last years we've got some margarine that mix some actual butter and they aren't way more expensive than standard margarine and are way cheaper than good butter brands and they taste way more similar to butter than pure margarine.
 
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I'm the same.
While margarine and similar were developed to be butter substitutes they don't taste the same (it's not bad, but certainly not the same) so when I know that I'll get the butter taste with the food, I use actual butter, when it used to give some fat to a recipe (like with a simple cake) I use margarine.
Thankfully in Brazil in last years we've got some margarine that mix some actual butter and they aren't way more expensive than standard margarine and are way cheaper than good butter brands and they taste way more similar to butter than pure margarine.

I've started using a butter spread for most things now. It works easily like margarine, but it tastes exactly like butter.
 

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