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Quebec set to allow yellow margarine


Strange | 206789 hits | Jul 08 4:53 pm | Posted by: WDHIII
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Yellow margarine may soon be allowed in Quebec grocery stores after the province's cabinet quietly agreed to change a 21-year old law that forbids any coloured form of the oily spread to be sold in La Belle Province.

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  1. by avatar snookums
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:10 am
    I never understood that one. Although I have to say, I never noticed when I was living in Quebec that there was no yellow margarine...

  2. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:19 am
    Another step towards assimiliation!

    Bwhaahahahahaaa! :wink:



    I kinda scratched my head over this one as well.

  3. by avatar C.M. Burns
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:22 am
    Sorry, everyone...
    I'm not ready

  4. by avatar kenmore
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:53 am
    It was because of the dairy industry and butter.. butter is yellow..margarine should not be yellow because it competed with butter.... why I dont know.. I still cant believe it aint butter ;)

  5. by avatar Delwin
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:57 am
    Here's a backgrounder:

    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blog ... arine.aspx

  6. by avatar Public_Domain
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:01 am
    :|

  7. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:04 am
    Blast from the past, my little brother sure had fun with this ditty. Particularly at the dinner table.

    It's not nice to fool Mother Nature...

    If you think it's butter, but its snot. It's Chiffon.

  8. by avatar snookums
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:11 am
    The lobby did not want Quebecers to be buy yellow margarine if they were really after butter.


    So I guess it was for the illiterate? It's so hard to distinguish between BEURRE and MARGARINE, the spelling is so similar :oops:

    It all makes sense now :wink:

  9. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:54 am
    "lily" said
    They used to sell margarine with little colour packets so you could make it yellow at home.

    And no, I'm not old enough to remember that.... my Dad told me about it.


    Damn...............I am.

    Anybody else remember milk in a bag?

  10. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:16 am
    It's still sold like that in Ontario I think.

  11. by avatar commanderkai
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:37 am
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    They used to sell margarine with little colour packets so you could make it yellow at home.

    And no, I'm not old enough to remember that.... my Dad told me about it.


    Damn...............I am.

    Anybody else remember milk in a bag?

    They still exist in Ontario for some sad reason.

  12. by avatar kitty
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:28 am


    its more economical too

  13. by ridenrain
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:42 am
    Than what.. a washable glass bottle?
    Pretty sad when you're national identity is defined by a milk jug.

  14. by avatar CanAm1
    Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:23 am
    cookie with that milk in a bag? 8O Is it margerine in the shortbread?



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