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| | + | [[Image:Butter.jpg|right|250px]] |
| | + | '''Butter''' is churned [[cream]] of [[milk]]. An unctuous (usually) yellow solid [[fat]], often spread on [[bread]] or used in the production of [[cake]]s, [[biscuit]]s and [[pastry|pastries]]. '''Oleomargarine''' ('''margarine''') is a butter substitute made from vegetable oils. |
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| | + | [[File:Oleo1880-Puck-March31.jpg|thumb|400px|Praising pure butter and denouncing oleomargarine; ''Puck'' magazine cartoon by Opper, March 31, 1880]] |
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| | + | Until recently dairy farmers denounced oleomargarine as an inferior chemical substitute for butter. It is actually just as nutritious, and a lot cheaper. One tactic was a law that said maragraine could not be colored yellow, so it came out looking like lard. |
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| | + | [[Category:Dairy products]] |