17 thoughts on “It was developed just before WW2 to replace engine oil…”
Oleo. And World War II rations included a yellow coloring packet to make it look like the butter that it was replacing.
Margarine is white, they add dye during the manufacturing process nowadays. In Canada in the ’40s and ’50s the dairy industry pressured the government to enact a law stating that margarine could not be dyed to look like butter. Therefore the margarine was sold with a capsule of dye for the consumer to mix in.
I read The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz this past winter and have switched to butter and lard for all my cooking. Just like climate scientists, dietary scientists are whores. They will create reports that say whatever their customers want.
I’d rather eat a mouthful of June bugs. Or boiled peanuts. Same thing.
I lived in Alabama for 12 years, Tennessee for 1, Georgia for 2 and I never could stomach boiled peanuts. I love peanut butter and roasted peanuts…
Only weirdos consume margarine
Sounds like info put out by the butter industry.
My main item when explaining to my kids they have lied to us a long time with their claims of being better. Hire ad agency, payoff the regulators, make product, sell product make millions of dollars.
I fully believe cooking with lard and butter is much more healthy for you than any processed oil or item except olive oil.
I use good old-fashioned (saved) bacon grease to cook with, AND it makes excellent old-fashioned cast iron pan cornbread!
Perfect!
Me to until I accidentally left my container where the neighbors dog could get to it. Working on replenishing now.
Funny, in my yute’s we used the margarine containers to make molotov’s cocktails we would place under the two lane creek bridge where is was safe, ha ha ha, and throw rocks at em to get the effect.
We stopped when we made it to big and flames went up both sides with a car crossing.
try putting out butter, lard and margarine for the birds and see which one they don’t eat
Funny how butter and other meat-greases became bad when the margarine companies saw the end of WWII and said, “Oh, crap, we’re going to lose our sources of income” and commissioned medical studies to ‘prove’ that margarines and vegetable oils were better for people.
Of course, the reason people had to eat margarines and vegetable oils to begin with is the USGOV cornered the market on animal fats for troops to eat and for the manufacture of explosives and gunpowders. Else nobody would have had to eat margarines and veggie oils, staying with butters and greases and lards.
Invented in 1869 in France and used beef tallow. Eventually made with vegetable oil instead of animal fats. Didn’t have a damn thing to do with engine oil.
I wonder if they made any changes to the recipe since 1869?
MANY changes since 1869. Some so severe you have to call it “spread” and cannot legally call it margarine any more.
Oleo. And World War II rations included a yellow coloring packet to make it look like the butter that it was replacing.
Margarine is white, they add dye during the manufacturing process nowadays. In Canada in the ’40s and ’50s the dairy industry pressured the government to enact a law stating that margarine could not be dyed to look like butter. Therefore the margarine was sold with a capsule of dye for the consumer to mix in.
I read The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz this past winter and have switched to butter and lard for all my cooking. Just like climate scientists, dietary scientists are whores. They will create reports that say whatever their customers want.
I’d rather eat a mouthful of June bugs. Or boiled peanuts. Same thing.
I lived in Alabama for 12 years, Tennessee for 1, Georgia for 2 and I never could stomach boiled peanuts. I love peanut butter and roasted peanuts…
Only weirdos consume margarine
Sounds like info put out by the butter industry.
My main item when explaining to my kids they have lied to us a long time with their claims of being better. Hire ad agency, payoff the regulators, make product, sell product make millions of dollars.
I fully believe cooking with lard and butter is much more healthy for you than any processed oil or item except olive oil.
I use good old-fashioned (saved) bacon grease to cook with, AND it makes excellent old-fashioned cast iron pan cornbread!
Perfect!
Me to until I accidentally left my container where the neighbors dog could get to it. Working on replenishing now.
Funny, in my yute’s we used the margarine containers to make molotov’s cocktails we would place under the two lane creek bridge where is was safe, ha ha ha, and throw rocks at em to get the effect.
We stopped when we made it to big and flames went up both sides with a car crossing.
try putting out butter, lard and margarine for the birds and see which one they don’t eat
Funny how butter and other meat-greases became bad when the margarine companies saw the end of WWII and said, “Oh, crap, we’re going to lose our sources of income” and commissioned medical studies to ‘prove’ that margarines and vegetable oils were better for people.
Of course, the reason people had to eat margarines and vegetable oils to begin with is the USGOV cornered the market on animal fats for troops to eat and for the manufacture of explosives and gunpowders. Else nobody would have had to eat margarines and veggie oils, staying with butters and greases and lards.
Invented in 1869 in France and used beef tallow. Eventually made with vegetable oil instead of animal fats. Didn’t have a damn thing to do with engine oil.
I wonder if they made any changes to the recipe since 1869?
MANY changes since 1869. Some so severe you have to call it “spread” and cannot legally call it margarine any more.
And butter is “bad for you.”