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Butter prices

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  • z1a
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    I only use butter, but why do people say they use margarine? Not been available in UK for donkeys years.
  • RikM
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    z1a wrote: »
    I only use butter, but why do people say they use margarine? Not been available in UK for donkeys years.
    It gets used as a term for any non-dairy butter-like spread, because people don't know the difference...
  • Zola.
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    Golden Cow is great, and its not expensive.
  • qwert_yuiop
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    edited 31 October 2017 at 9:40AM
    z1a wrote: »
    I only use butter, but why do people say they use margarine? Not been available in UK for donkeys years.

    What’s Stork if not margarine? Previously advertised as being impossible to tell from butter, which presumably had to stop when those without advanced nasal polyposis were asked.

    Are you referring to the hydrogenated oil method of production?
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • What’s Stork if not margarine? Previously advertised as being impossible to tell from butter, which presumably had to stop when those without advanced nasal polyposis were asked.

    Are you referring to the hydrogenated oil method of production?

    I'm almost certain I have seen Echo margarine in shops??
  • donnac2558
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    Mrs_Mac_1 wrote: »
    I'm almost certain I have seen Echo margarine in shops??

    That was the only one my Dad ate. I used to bring it into cooking classes at school everyone else used Stork. My cake mix was always paler and lighter in texture. The Stork a weird bright yellow colour.:D
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