The price of the butter we buy has gone from $6 to $9 in 3 years. Just saying.
I do not eat butter or margarine
If the food you are eating does not taste good without them added then you should eat something else or learn to be less picky
Both are bad for your heart and neither provide any beneficial nutrients unless you are starving with nothing else to eat
Olive Oil is allegedly good for your heart
Canola Oil provides ALA omega 3 fatty acids which are an essential nutrient
In the fancy restaurants people eat bread dipped in oil
olive oil [is] new.
Say what?
The earliest surviving olive oil amphorae date to 3,500 BC, though the production of olive oil is assumed to have started before 4,000 BC. By 3,000 BC in Crete, the olive was widely cultivated and a highly prized commodity. The cultivation of olive trees in Crete became prevalent in the post-palatial period and played a significant role in the island's economy, as it did across the Mediterranean. Olive oil entered its golden age with the Greeks, as they used it for food, fuel, skin lotion, contraceptive, detergent, preservative, pesticide, perfume and adornment. Olive oil was also a major export of Mycenaean Greece (c. 1450–1150 BC). Scholars believe the ancient olive oil was produced by a process where olives were placed in woven mats and squeezed, with the oil collected in vats.
@Flick @amerika @shortstories @ned Also, canola = rapeseed. Name changed for marketing. It's at least 4K years old, used in India, 2K in Asia.
> I go with "eat what your ancestors ate."
My ancestors were not in India, Asia, or Southern Europe.
Gotta go with what worked!
But LOL at "rapeseed," which sounds like some kind of breeding fetish.
Once in a classroom long ago I mispronounced "Cretan" as "cretin" and offered up an entirely different view of history by accident.
I go with "eat what your ancestors ate."
I think butter works fine; canola and olive oil are new.
But your broader point is a good one namely that food dripping in sugar, oil, and salt is just cheap bad food sold at high prices and is not good for you.