My friend orders a junior bacon cheeseburger, no meat, because I guess it has the best combination of non-meat ingredients. A hamburger no meat wouldn’t do.
I guess I’m in the minority:
Butter vs. Margarine = Don’t care.
Mayonnaise vs. Miracle Whip = Don’t care.
Coke vs. Pepsi = Don’t care.
I’ll even go so far as to say that, even though I prefer real whipped cream, I’ve grown quite a soft spot for Cool Whip, since my wife prefers it.
Go ahead, call me a philistine.
I tend not to be too fussy about my food, but I grew up eating butter, and on the few occasions I’ve had margarine, found it distasteful. When I was living with a host family in Peace Corps, I didn’t turn my nose up at it because my host family was really poor and margarine was cheaper than butter, but…yeah. I would be annoyed if I was at an actual restaurant and was given margarine instead of butter.
My parents always kept the butter on the counter, too. Never had rancid butter. I keep it in the fridge now. I don’t use it enough to merit keeping it out all the time.
I might have missed it but scanning through two pages I don’t see where anyone mentioned that there was once a time when butter and margarine looked quite different.
The margarine was almost white like tallow or lard and it came with a little package of coloring to be added to make it look yellowish. I’m guessing just before the end of WWII.
One of the problems in a restaurant is the employees like to but their favorites on customers food. If they like pickles, they want to heap them on the customers food. If they like onions they will lard them on. They assume the person will like them the way they do.
They usually get an extra 50 cents or so to put cheese on. Makes them more money.
And do you remember when the meat in ‘hamburger’ was a mixed of ground pork and ground beef?
No, but I remember when I was in elementary school when if the menu at the cafeteria said “hamburger”, what you’d get was a bun…with a thick slice of ham in it.
NZ too. Either Antipodean or Commonwealth English.
Nooooo!!! 
Real butter is a very pale golden yellow, and made from grass-grazed cow milk and salt.
And it also comes in a double-churned semi-soft form… not quite spreadable from the fridge, but close, and with no extra additives.
Better eat snot? 