# Scraping toast in the U.K.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 6, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185 "2008-04-06T15:18:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 8
### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/141 "2008-04-11T14:08:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mk VII]
It seldom gets hot or humid enough here to really _need_ to keep butter in the fridge, except occasionally in the summer.
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OK, I suppose I’m talking about households where we use vegetable oil-based spreads on bread, and real butter is something we use occasionally, like on baked potatoes. I thought this was the norm these days, but maybe there are still lots of people buttering their bread with actual butter.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/142 "2008-04-11T14:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=Usram]
OK, I suppose I’m talking about households where we use vegetable oil-based spreads on bread, and real butter is something we use occasionally, like on baked potatoes. I thought this was the norm these days, but maybe there are still lots of people buttering their bread with actual butter.
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I’ll confess…
I have butter for cooking, but I actually _prefer_ margarine on bread (and yes I know that it’s just grey sump oil with yellow food colouring). Real butter has an odd taste to me when it’s not cooked. Margarine provides the taste-free greasiness that I want in a sandwich, allowing me to taste the actual filling.
I’m going to Doper Hell for this, aren’t I?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/143 "2008-04-11T14:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
I’m going to Doper Hell for this, aren’t I?
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I’ll keep you company. I like butter, but I see nothing wrong with margarine and use more of the latter.
Butter-elitism, coffee-elitism. Feh.
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### Author:  [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/144 "2008-04-11T14:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
I’ll confess…
I have butter for cooking, but I actually _prefer_ margarine on bread (and yes I know that it’s just grey sump oil with yellow food colouring). Real butter has an odd taste to me when it’s not cooked. Margarine provides the taste-free greasiness that I want in a sandwich, allowing me to taste the actual filling.
I’m going to Doper Hell for this, aren’t I?
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My family hasn’t bought margarine in years. Aren’t they all loaded with trans fats?
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/145 "2008-04-11T14:44:03Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
Yeah. Sure it was cold and had gravel in it, but we ate it, and we _liked_ it!
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Liked it, we bloody loved it.
Especially spread on half a roofing tile as a special treat
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/146 "2008-04-11T14:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=Running with Scissors]
My family hasn’t bought margarine in years. Aren’t they all loaded with trans fats?
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Butter also has trans-fatty acids. Just stay away from the partially hydrogenated oils. Non-hydrogenated margarine is available these days.
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### Author:  [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/147 "2008-04-11T14:50:29Z")
Margarine containing olive oil is supposed to be better for you.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/148 "2008-04-11T14:53:20Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
Especially spread on half a roofing tile as a special treat
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And you try telling yoong peepul todeh…
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### Author:  [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/149 "2008-04-11T14:55:54Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray]
Butter also has trans-fatty acids.
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I just looked at a package of butter, and it said 0g of trans fat in 1 tbs.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/150 "2008-04-11T15:01:56Z")
[QUOTE=Running with Scissors]
I just looked at a package of butter, and it said **0g** of trans fat in 1 tbs.
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(bolding mine)
Cool! Doper butter! 😃
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### Author:  [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/151 "2008-04-11T15:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I’ll keep you company. I like butter, but I see nothing wrong with margarine and use more of the latter.
Butter-elitism, coffee-elitism. Feh.
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Considering your location margarine should be banned altogether.
Me, daughter and grandson use nothing but butter, for spreading and cooking.
Son won’t go anywhere near it and has to have margarine - or Buitoni Olive Oil spread currently. Will only cook in corn oil, not olive oil.
We ran out of butter a few weeks ago and I swiped some of his axle --grease to make a sandwich. Which went straight in the bin, couldn’t stomach the greasy taste.
I think it is a matter of what you are familiar with. I bought some beef dripping a while back and it bore no resemblance to what I remembered it to be. Just like lard.
Off to burn some toast (on one side only) to smear me nice Normandy butter on for tea.
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### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/152 "2008-04-11T15:48:31Z")
I think there may be some confusion over the term “margarine”. There’s old school margarine, which is the horrible trans-fat laden butter substitute that your grandmother may have used in cakes, and modern vegetable oil spreads such as Flora, which are also called margarine in some places. But the latter margarine is nothing like the former.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/153 "2008-04-11T15:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=Myglaren]
We ran out of butter a few weeks ago and I swiped some of his axle --grease to make a sandwich. Which went straight in the bin, couldn’t stomach the greasy taste.
Honestly some people don’t know they’re born.
When I was a sprog, back in days of yore, only royalty and the very rich could afford axle grease.
We used to dream of a good wholesome meal of axle grease spread on 2 pieces of corrugated cardboard and garnished with rotting turnips
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### Author:  [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/154 "2008-04-11T16:02:58Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
[QUOTE=Myglaren]
We ran out of butter a few weeks ago and I swiped some of his axle --grease to make a sandwich. Which went straight in the bin, couldn’t stomach the greasy taste.
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Honestly some people don’t know they’re born.
When I was a sprog, back in days of yore, only royalty and the very rich could afford axle grease.
We used to dream of a good wholesome meal of axle grease spread on 2 pieces of corrugated cardboard and garnished with rotting turnips
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And just why do you presume that I am not Royalty?
Guards! - off with his head 😃
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### Author:  [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/155 "2008-04-13T15:50:29Z")
I swear that this is true,my mum was the worst cook in the world she used to regulary burn hot milk,comedians used to do a joke that they were woken up every morning by the sound of their wives scraping toast,I actually was,not by my wife but by my mother and if it wasn’t EVERY morning it was definitely four days out of seven.
Ever since then I have happily eaten meals that everyone else has condemed as crap and been bemused when they have complained about them.
A thing my mum used to say when praising a food item,and once again I swear this,was I\* didn’t cook this its tinned.
Saying that ,being an old bastard we didn’t eat a lot of tinned food because it was too expensive for our families budget .
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### Author:  [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/156 "2008-04-14T18:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
I suppose you insist on soldiers with your soft boiled eggs so you can dip 'em in.
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What are “soldiers”?
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/157 "2008-04-14T18:29:33Z")
Soldiers are strips of toast or toast cut into strips. Whichever way you want to look at it.
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### Author:  [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/158 "2008-04-14T18:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=DLuxN8R-13]
What are “soldiers”?
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Take a piece of toast and cut it into narrow lengthways strips - just wide enough to dip in a soft-boiled egg.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/159 "2008-04-14T21:50:38Z")
[QUOTE=DLuxN8R-13]
What are “soldiers”?
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The part of your arm where it joins your body. In contrast to the other end, where the fingles are, or the middle, which is called the elbone.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scraping-toast-in-the-u-k/444185/160 "2008-04-15T12:58:24Z")
My German grandmother called them “towers.”
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