One dear to me and I were discussing the difference in taste.. I grew up on margarine, I can't taste a difference.

He grew up on butter and thinks margarine is a smelly, vile, pot of nasty..

What say you?

I use margarine for certain recipes but most of the time butter is way better.

Ghee?...
Meh don't really care too much as all my cooking uses olive oil and I rarely eat toast

Butter can be used for anything, you dont put margarine on bread. It can be accepted to use margarine to fry things in a pan, but even then Butter is better.

Butter is the best. Butter Eating Master Race.

There's something very empty about the taste of margarine. I prefer to use butter.

I use both.

Butter for cooking, margarine for spreading on bread. My butter, even if left out is always too hard and just tears the bread. I live in a basemant suite by the ocean...surrounded by trees...I wear sweaters if I'm just sitting around, even during the summer. (As soon as I walk out to the street you feel the temp rise, drastically at times.) So leaving butter out does not equal soft (spreadable) butter here.

If I had to pick one over the other, I'd go with butter though. MMMM, butter...