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Article: Stick Shift: Why Margarines Changed Spreading It Around
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 14, 1994
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It looks like margarine. It tastes like margarine. But wait.
It isn't margarine. And it may be why some of your favorite baking
recipes haven't been turning out quite right lately.
Unbeknownst to most consumers, almost all margarines in the
past year or so have been reformulated into "vegetable oil spreads"
that contain more water than regular margarine.
Unwary cooks who bake an old favorite cookie recipe using what
they think is their old favorite margarine may get a newfangled flop
or at best, a different quality cookie.
Not surprisingly, this has angered consumers and thousands of
them have flooded company hotlines with complaints.
Some companies, like Land O' Lakes, have gone ...