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Butter's lab-grown understudy, invented to feed armies and stretch the truth about toast.
means A butter substitute made from vegetable oils (originally animal fats), churned and colored to spread like the real thing.
from From the Greek 'margaron,' meaning pearl — because the French chemist who concocted it in the 19th century, responding to a prize Napoleon III offered for a cheap butter for the army and the poor, observed pearly droplets in his fatty acid and named it 'margaric acid.' The substance was first called 'oleomargarine,' later trimmed to 'margarine.' So a word for lustrous pearls ended up describing a tub of fat — proof that science and marketing have always made fine bedfellows.
- emperor's prize
- Napoleon III sponsored its invention in 1869
- once gray
- Naturally white, dyed yellow to mimic butter
- color wars
- US states banned tinted margarine to protect dairy
- whale roots
- Early versions used beef tallow and animal fats
- name origin
- From Greek margarites, meaning pearl
flora — european margarine brand created in 1920, leading spread in uk and germany for decades
crisco — vegetable shortening brand introduced in 1911, dominated american kitchens as margarine alternative for baking