Fake meats terminology ramble

[tin_foil_hat]

Do you call fake-meats by their fake meaty names? eg. soysages, facon, tofurkey.

My friend does, and seems to think these are shibboleths that will gain him entry into our secret world upon use. To me they mark him out as not one of us *chants

Comments

[devolute]

Oh I usually say butter when I mean margarine, too. My family has never eaten real butter and we have always called it that.

[tin_foil_hat]

I do call it margarine, but in my head margarine and butter are synonymous, because we never had butter either. I find it odd that people ask in vegan communities "I have this cake recipe, but it calls for butter - will margarine be ok?!?!?!" when even as an omni I used margarine.

[bizwac]

Yeah, I lol heartily whenever I see that.

[blueheron]

I never understood that people feel that butter and margarine are synonymous. Interchangeable in most baked goods, sure, but otherwise the same? Not even close.

Though, it could be because our margarine is white and looks more like shortening, and it really doesn't taste anything like butter.

[tin_foil_hat]

What would you use it in which is significantly different?

[blueheron]

Shortbread?

I also wouldn't use it for cooking. To me, margarine is purely a baking ingredient, or as a condiment on toast.

[new_perestroika]

We called it butter too! I am getting better at saying "margarine" now though.

[socraticomatic]

Me too.

I say butter / marg / Nuttelex in equal amounts.

[zebrallama]

Yeah, I usually say Nuttelex, but I didn't like to post anything local in an international forum, because I like to retain the high ground for when the Americans do it :-)

[bizwac]

I was brought up saying 'marg', but then when I say it around most 'normal' people I get a "bah? wha?", so I then went to 'butter' (less syllables than margarine), but then... I don't eat butter, and have very rarely eaten butter in my life. and it's weird for a vegan to say "where's the butter".

Also, YOU CRAZY PEOPLE CALLING IT NUTTELEX. YOU BRAND WHORES!!