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euuuuuu YUK!!!! Brenda.......thank goodness my tastebuds have only liked butter.....knew there must have been a reason......you sure this is not an Urban Myth?.....if not...will be letting my daughter know...she only likes margarine

lol Brenda, me too.... I normally use an olive oil based spread... or houmos, lol!

Susan.... aw bless........ it was really really scrummy!! Yum yum!

Rosalyn, it was my birthday a couple of weeks ago.. Ann of GG put a thread up cos she knew, but I hadn't mentioned it to anyone else, lol!!

Stray.... you be kind to Susan now ;¬)) Just like I am (more ;¬)))

Kitty.... I did one of those as homework with one of my sons, lol... the one who went on to work in the Stilton cheese industry, intoducing the mould to the cheeses, lol!!

Love

Daff..... who might have to wait until Christmas for the next bit of butter, lol! xxxx

I'm sure that the scientists will have perfected the best "spreads" by now,but maybe when you used to buy a cheap margarine it was a bit dodgy.Having said that I still like Stork for baking,but not to spread.I could always tell Stork from butter.

It does go mouldy....................we did an experiment at school and it grew lovely blue/green mould:)

It was Flora by the way.

Hope you don't mind me adding this to the thread,but just had this e-mail from a friend.....It makes you think!!!
I love Lurpak or continental butter,but use it sparingly!

Pass The Butter. please.

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 amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

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
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 ..

Triple 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 fold.

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..

This fact alone was 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 in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note 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 weeny 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')!

DAFF , when was /is your birthday?

yep and now i have to go slave over the kids tea

but not have anything till dog gets home

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ok now stray....don't over do it lol


don't you just hate these peeps who are eating something yummy, who then come on here just to make the rest of us drool sigh!......hunger pangs and too lazy to make myself something to eat :-)))

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww poor susan lol

xxx

mmmmmm!...could just do with that right now

will have to make do with stale bread and scrapings til Oh comes home ( all sympathy appreciated :-))))

Susan
x

aw isnt he sweet
i luv real butter specially on cold toast yummy

xxx

Hubby bought me, for my birthday.... a bag of tiny new potatoes and a packet of real proper butter..... that is what I had a couple of candles on instead of a cake, lol!!

Well, I have just eaten the last of the butter on crumpets...... soooooooo yummy!!

He knows how to keep me happy does that fella!!

Love

Daff xxx

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