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Article: Breads & Spreads;Margarines: How Do They Differ?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 13, 1988
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Butter lovers have cursed, ignored and even enacted laws against
it, but they haven't been able to stop the spread. Consumption of
margarine has steadily-and rampantly-increased ever since it was
concocted by French pharmacist Hippolyte Me`ge for butter-short
troops during the Napoleonic Wars.
These days, descendants of Me`ge's invention fill tubs and
sticks and squeeze bottles, jamming supermarket refrigerator cases.
In 1987, Americans spent close to $1.5 billion on margarine products,
and there's every indication that the buying trend will remain
strong. In fact, much to the continual chagrin of farmers and their
cows, we now consume twice as much margarine as butter.
The plenitude ...