Just a quick glance over to margarines ...finds that they were banned in Canada (for 50yrs!) but those dam brits over in Newfoundland were smuggling in margarine made from whale , seal & sardine oil anyways !!
That's too funny , apparently Canadians sort of had some pride about what their authentic sources of cooking
oils & butters were ? Sounds like a major class action suit to me :
en.wikipedia.org
Canada/Margarine
In Canada, margarine was banned from 1886 until 1948 though this ban was temporarily lifted from 1917 until 1923 due to dairy shortages. [8] Nevertheless, bootleg margarine was produced in the neighbouring British colony of Newfoundland from whale, seal and fish oil by the Newfoundland Butter Company (which, in fact, produced only margarine) and was smuggled to Canada where it was widely sold for half the price of butter. The Supreme Court of Canada lifted the margarine ban in 1948 in the Margarine Reference.
In 1950, as a result of a court ruling giving provinces the right to regulate the product, rules were implemented in much of Canada regarding margarine's colour, requiring it to be bright yellow or orange in some provinces or colourless in others. By the 1980s, most provinces had lifted the restriction, however, in Ontario it was not legal to sell butter-coloured margarine until 1995. [8] Quebec, the last Canadian province to regulate margarine colouring, repealed its law requiring margarine to be colorless in July 2008. [9] |
