# Butter or margarine?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636 "2012-07-28T02:03:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636/1 "2012-07-28T02:03:14Z")

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Butter  
Margarine  
Neither  
Something else

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636/2 "2012-07-28T02:15:06Z")

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Based on frequency of usage: Butter and olive oil are tied for first place. Then lard and bacon grease. Occasional uses of other oils, corn (always when cooking corn), canola, walnut, soy, etc. Then rendered duck fat. Then everything else except margarine. Modern margarine doesn’t have that weird taste it had when I was a kid, but I can still tell if I get served margarine.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636/3 "2012-07-28T02:29:31Z")

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Never margarine.

Unsalted butter for baking, salted for toast or baked potatoes.

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**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butter-or-margarine/629636/4 "2012-07-28T02:32:17Z")

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Sorry- I was trying to post a poll. Mods- request to close this thread and see the poll.