Margarine popularity keeps spreading

Chicago Sun-Times | March 10, 1988| | Copyright

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 increased steadily since it was concocted by French pharmacist Hippolyte Mege for butter-short troops during the Napoleonic Wars.

These days descendants of Mege'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 the buying trend will remain strong. Much to the continual chagrin of farmers, we now consume ...

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