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Like Butter...

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:14 am
by Freakzilla
Pass The Butter .... please.

This is interesting . . . . .

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is dded, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and, spread that on your toast?

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:58 am
by Sister Artemis
I don't know about that last one... I have had mold growing on the inside of the lid and on the edge of a margerine container (where the margerine is very "thin"). Then again, perhaps it was microscopic toast particles left in the margerine by some careless toast-butterer.

Scary stuff in any case. When several friends were advised to switch back to butter for health reasons (some of which are stated in the list), I went with the tide. It tastes better, and I tend to use less as well. I have a lonely tub of the evil margerine in the fridge for greasing up baking dishes -- probably not a lot of the oily stuff gets in my food, and it sticks to the sides (unlike liquid oil), plus it salts up the edges of casseroles and breads, so I probably won't quit doing that. However, I bet that pint tub of margerine will end up lasting me 10 years now that I use butter for everything else. At least it won't rot.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:02 am
by Omphalos
I like to rant the same way about Twinkees. Absolutely no food value at all, and the "cream filling" is nothing short of a sweetened polymer.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:57 am
by Star Dust
Omphalos wrote:I like to rant the same way about Twinkees. Absolutely no food value at all, and the "cream filling" is nothing short of a sweetened polymer.
Yeah, but batter 'em up and drop 'em in a vat of boiling oil and they taste great!!! ;)

I switched to real butter a long time ago. Accept no substitute!

Hiya Sis!

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:50 pm
by Phaedrus
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
I doubt that's true. Even if it is, it's completely meaningless.

Water(H2O, required for life, yaknow?) is only ONE MOLECULE away from being HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2, which is EXPLOSIVE). OMGZ, don't drink teh waters!

Sounds to me like that's a forwarded email originated by someone owning cows somewhere. In other words, it's total bullshit. Margarine is perfectly safe, and in a lot of ways, healthier than butter.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:20 pm
by Freakzilla
Phaedrus wrote:
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
I doubt that's true. Even if it is, it's completely meaningless.

Water(H2O, required for life, yaknow?) is only ONE MOLECULE away from being HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2, which is EXPLOSIVE). OMGZ, don't drink teh waters!

Sounds to me like that's a forwarded email originated by someone owning cows somewhere. In other words, it's total bullshit. Margarine is perfectly safe, and in a lot of ways, healthier than butter.
Like how?

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:57 pm
by Omphalos
Star Dust wrote:Yeah, but batter 'em up and drop 'em in a vat of boiling oil and they taste great!!! ;)
You remind me of my Scottish cousins. Those bastards will eat anything as long as its been deep fried.

Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:08 pm
by Mandy
I confess that I love margarine.. have you tried Country Crock? OMG, it's delicious. Butter is delicious but it's a lot more expensive than margarine.

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:26 am
by Phaedrus
Freakzilla wrote:
Phaedrus wrote:
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
I doubt that's true. Even if it is, it's completely meaningless.

Water(H2O, required for life, yaknow?) is only ONE MOLECULE away from being HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2, which is EXPLOSIVE). OMGZ, don't drink teh waters!

Sounds to me like that's a forwarded email originated by someone owning cows somewhere. In other words, it's total bullshit. Margarine is perfectly safe, and in a lot of ways, healthier than butter.
Like how?
Less trans fat, less saturated fat, and no cholesterol(according to wikipedia, although the cholesterol has no citation, the others do). And you can buy low fat margarine that's even better.

Dairy lobbyists have been trying to get margarine off the market for years with propaganda, legislation, and straight-up lies. It only works when people apply the naturalistic fallacy(it's better because it's NATURAL...like aging, disease, hemlock, and mosquitoes are good, while medicine, cities, cars, and the Internet are bad) or actually believe the BS. If you can cite a scientific article that deems margarine unsafe or unhealthy, I might have reason to doubt it, but unsourced, unverified data isn't a good argument.

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:43 pm
by Liege-Killer
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
This doesn't even make sense. I think whoever wrote that meant to say that a margarine molecule is one atom away from being plastic.

And as Phaedrus pointed out, one atom can make a hell of a lot of difference.

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:29 pm
by Pardot Kynes
Omphalos wrote:
Star Dust wrote:Yeah, but batter 'em up and drop 'em in a vat of boiling oil and they taste great!!! ;)
You remind me of my Scottish cousins. Those bastards will eat anything as long as its been deep fried.
What's wrong with that?

Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:22 pm
by Omphalos
One can only eat so many deep fried Mars bars or slices of pizza in a lifetime. Or rather, "should eat" anyway.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:23 am
by SandChigger
Yeah, after a while it makes more sense to just take a knife and cut open your chest and pour the stuff over yer heart! :twisted:

Nya-nya-nyaha!

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:04 am
by inhuien
Now Now My good Omphalos, The practice of deep frying Mars Bars was just a passing phase and I'm sure it got old fast. They are, no doubt, back to the perennial favourite mainlining of smack to get their fix.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:34 am
by Omphalos
Quick, somebody change the topic of conversation before we get into revenue sharing over oil and tax subsidies to those in the north!

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:58 am
by inhuien
It's our OIL, OUR OIL, I tell and those thieving bastards stole it all.

And what did the Romans ever do for us?

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:47 pm
by Robspierre
Just saw DOOMSDAY they quarantine all of Scotland to stop the disease and the scots revert to their natural state fetish wannabe cannibals....

Rob

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:50 pm
by SandChigger
Woad be upon thee? :lol:

Woad begone days...be gone?

Once more for the woad?

(Someone, STOP ME!)

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:25 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
Omphalos wrote:Quick, somebody change the topic of conversation before we get into revenue sharing over oil and tax subsidies to those in the north!
OKEY DOKEY ARTICHOKEY!

inhuien: Two questions, How do you pronounce your screen name and what the hell is that THING bouncin in your avitar?

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:32 pm
by SandChigger
Ooh, ooh! I know the answer to the second one!

It's a FantyAss Repeler! :lol:

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:40 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
SandChigger wrote:Ooh, ooh! I know the answer to the second one!

It's a FantyAss Repeler! :lol:
WEEEELL that explains everything! :roll:

Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:46 pm
by SandChigger
(Explanation: When Jacurutu started up, the Ethnically-Origined Village Idiot—Fantomas—keep going on and on and on about it. When he wasn't taking potshots at Mandy. :evil: I like to think of Yellow Bouncy Bouncy Weeeeeeee as a proof against idiots. ;) )

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:48 am
by inhuien
Well the wee bouncy Yellow man/thing can not be described to attempt such a task is to risk madness. Me screen name could be pronounced In-Hew-En.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:54 am
by GamePlayer
Apparently there's plastic in ice cream as well. Yummy :)

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:57 am
by Omphalos
inhuien wrote:Well the wee bouncy Yellow man/thing can not be described to attempt such a task is to risk madness. Me screen name could be pronounced In-Hew-En.
My son asked me the other day what your avatar was. He thinks its a Pokemon. He loves watching it.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:35 am
by A Thing of Eternity
Omphalos wrote:
inhuien wrote:Well the wee bouncy Yellow man/thing can not be described to attempt such a task is to risk madness. Me screen name could be pronounced In-Hew-En.
My son asked me the other day what your avatar was. He thinks its a Pokemon. He loves watching it.
We all love watching it. It brings great joy for some reason.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:36 am
by Freakzilla
Omphalos wrote:
inhuien wrote:Well the wee bouncy Yellow man/thing can not be described to attempt such a task is to risk madness. Me screen name could be pronounced In-Hew-En.
My son asked me the other day what your avatar was. He thinks its a Pokemon. He loves watching it.
My kids like it too.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:20 pm
by SandChigger
Anyone who DOESN'T like it is dysfunctional.

(You know who I mean.)

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:31 pm
by Nekhrun
You guys are nuts! I want to step on that fucking thing! :twisted:

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:56 pm
by GamePlayer
Really? Then let the indoctrination begin!

Image

:P :lol:

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:39 am
by inhuien
Nekhrun the nasty wrote:You guys are nuts! I want to step on that fucking thing! :twisted:
:cry: :? :P

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:21 am
by Nekhrun
GamePlayer wrote:Really? Then let the indoctrination begin!

Image

:P :lol:
That angers up the blood.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:21 am
by Nekhrun
inhuien wrote:
Nekhrun the nasty wrote:You guys are nuts! I want to step on that fucking thing! :twisted:
:cry: :? :P
I'll give you one thing, at least you're not running backwards.

WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:46 am
by inhuien
You mean like this?

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Re: WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:34 am
by A Thing of Eternity
inhuien wrote:You mean like this?

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You should warn the epileptics before you do that!

Re: WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:42 am
by Omphalos
A Thing of Eternity wrote:
inhuien wrote:You mean like this?

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You should warn the epileptics before you do that!
<drool>

Re: WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:13 pm
by Nekhrun
inhuien wrote:You mean like this?

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I would like to cook whatever the fuck that thing is over a slow flame.

Re: WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:25 pm
by Omphalos
Nekhrun wrote:
inhuien wrote:You mean like this?

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I would like to cook whatever the fuck that thing is over a slow flame.
Probably would not taste good though.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:41 pm
by SandChigger
Ah, flashy animated GIF-induced epileptic seizures...what stupid bitch does that remind me of.... :roll:

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:57 pm
by GamePlayer
Oh, I gotta try that too :)

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:59 pm
by Omphalos
GamePlayer wrote:Oh, I gotta try that too :)

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Cute. The boy will love this one too. Someone do a third level so my whole monitor is full of them.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:08 pm
by Robspierre
GamePlayer wrote:Oh, I gotta try that too :)

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Only cause da mans son demands it!

Rob

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:57 pm
by SandChigger
Vaguely sick-making.

I LOVE it. :D

Re: WARNING FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:27 am
by inhuien
A Thing of Eternity wrote:
inhuien wrote:You should warn the epileptics before you do that!
I did try to hence the warning re flash photograghy. I'm loving Orca-boy, Woo-hoo!!!!

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:40 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
SandChigger wrote:(Explanation: When Jacurutu started up, the Ethnically-Origined Village Idiot—Fantomas—keep going on and on and on about it. When he wasn't taking potshots at Mandy. :evil: I like to think of Yellow Bouncy Bouncy Weeeeeeee as a proof against idiots. ;) )
Well now that does explain it thank you.
Well the wee bouncy Yellow man/thing can not be described to attempt such a task is to risk madness. Me screen name could be pronounced In-Hew-En.
Thanks for the pronunciation lesson and not to worry I'll not risk angering the wee jolly bouncy man/thing type dude person... :?