‘GOLDEN AGE’ MAY BE LOOMING FOR MARGARINE IN QUEBEC
February 1st, 2009
BY JAMES BURNS
THE LAST jurisdiction to outlaw yellow margarine finally got in line with the rest of the world last July when the Quebec provincial government in Canada repealed a 21-year-old law forbidding the sale of yellow margarine.
This marked the end of North America's official long-standing antipathy towards the popular fat. In 1886, Canada introduced a nationwide ban of the product, the same year that the USA imposed heavy taxes upon it.
That ban was only lifted in 1948, apart from a brief respite due to butter shortages between 1917 and 1923. In 1950, ...
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