To ancient Greeks, “butter eater”, boutyrophagoi in Greek, root for the English adjective butyraceous (byo͞odəˈrāSHəs), meaning of or like butter, was an insult to hurl at someone. Romans and Greeks preferred olive oil, used to this day in the Roman and Greek Churches. Margarine comes from the Greek margaron, pearl.
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