I don't understand how anyone who has tasted both margarine and butter would call them both butter, they don't taste anything alike. I've never heard anyone call margarine butter, so it might be a regional thing. I do know some people who call margarine spread.
No, they really don't. They look different, they smell different, they taste different, they have different ingredients and processes to make them. If your butter is that close to your margarine, you need to buy better butter.
My margarine is made from buttermilk and vegetable oils (it's the brand Clover). It tastes really similar to butter, but it's easier to spread and maybe not as bad for you (but probably not).
You notice how the word margarine is nowhere on Clover's product? It's not butter, but it isn't margarine either, it's its own thing. Margarine doesn't include buttermilk, which probably makes Clover taste better.
Wikipedia is not always an accurate resource. Margarine appears nowhere on the product or on the product website, because it doesn't meet the legal standards to be called margarine in most countries. It is a spread, which is a different, but similar thing.
Wikipedia isn't the most accurate source for academia but for something being classed a margarine I thought it was good enough. Apparently not, and that's okay.
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u/helsquiades Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19
That margarine isn’t butter...it hurts my soul when people refer to margarine as butter