I just made a recipe that called for margarine! I had to use butter though, since that's all we have in the fridge.
The mention of margarine got me thinking about growing up, when all we had in the fridge was margarine. Butter was considered a rare treat, and we only ate it on special occasions! Mmm.... baked potatoes!!
How about you: did you grow up eating margarine or butter? Also, which do you eat now?
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@autumnlove: Was that the one that came in a light brown tub? If so, I think we used that growing up too!
clementine / 828 posts
Margarine! I still prefer margarine for toast because it spreads easier.
nectarine / 2217 posts
haha grew up with margarine, too -- becel light!
i'm gonna admit we still keep a small tub of it in the back of the fridge just in case.... o_0!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
We ate butter at my dad's house and margarine at my mom's. I use butter now.
persimmon / 1035 posts
my experience was the same - butter was for special occasions, i loved having it on Christmas with our bread rolls!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Margarine in the tan tub!
We only have butter in the house now.
honeydew / 7909 posts
Butter then, butter now.
But I remember the brown tub of country crock... Hmmm, maybe we used both back in the day!
GOLD / pear / 1845 posts
Margarine, becel. Always butter now, and my parents switched back too 
watermelon / 14206 posts
My mom would buy I Can't Believe It's Not Butter while growing up. But, in my teenager years she switched to butter only and that's what I use now. Free radicals and all that.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Omg country crock and Can't Believe It's Not Butter. Yuck! Now I use a spreadable butter and real stick butter
kiwi / 575 posts
Butter, and usually Kerrygold at that. Otherwise my mother would have had to hand back her Irish passport!
pineapple / 12234 posts
Both - margarine for spreading on toast, butter for baking.
I don't use either now!
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
We ate margarine. My mom would get the cheaper stuff so it was margarine.
Now, we use both. I do like using butter but margarine is less fat.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
Man, we had the margarine in the tan tub too! I shudder to think about it...only butter in our house now.
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
Blue Bonnet margarine! Now that I'm an adult, I only use butter now. SALTED butter!
pomegranate / 3329 posts
I believe we only had butter, she left it out on the counter so that it would spread easier. My Mom is trying to get me to switch to butter, but we use I can't believe it's not butter
persimmon / 1304 posts
Margarine growing up - my parents switched back to butter when I was in college. We eat butter now.
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