Mary Berry | Cooking Retro Style | How to make Flapjack | Good Afternoon | 1974 

It makes sense considering how the name Margaret is pronounced

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Margarine was commonly pronounced like that in the 1970's, as it is from the Greek, Margarite (with a hard 'g'), meaning 'pearl'. By the 1980's very few people stuck to this convention apart from a few die-hards such as the much-missed chef and hotelier John Tovey of Miller Howe fame. History / time is the laboratory of language.

Andrew It was and still is the posh way of saying it

Andrew Sparrow margarine is the best thing on the internet right now. It kills me

She doesn't say margarine like that now. But it might well be correct, if superceded by the vulgarised "marj".

Janet is right it was the posh way of saying it and it sounds stupid.

I think you can just add to taste it doesn’t rlly matter probably as the recipe is very versatile

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@NuggetOfBlueGold - you are arrogant and uninformed. The term flapjjack started in the 16th century, and was used to describe a flat tart. It wasn't until 1935 that it came to be used in the UK to describe oat bars. It may be a coincidence that in 1935 Flat Tart was used to describe your mum.

You two people need to have your heads banged together that is what was done to children who kept arguing about silly things. Really for heavens sake grow up the pair of you.plus this is England an English programme.

What on earth.... I don’t believe that for a moment hahah

True, that's because flapjacks in the UK were originally a type of pancake, similar to pikelets and Scotch pancakes etc. for several centuries before the modern oat type became the norm. See Dorothy Hartley's "Food in England" et al.

Margarine was cheaper