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To: average joe who wrote (25523)	4/28/2012 11:49:22 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Nutella's about 50% Palm oil which is solid at room temp first drew interest by the Brit traders mid 1800's who tried to introduce it as a cooking oil but wouldnt catch on though used widely thru west Africa to fry foods. It did find good use as industrial lubricants & later heavily for soap which Unilever & Palmolive based themselves on .Its in lots of edibles now especially if your poorer & buying on the cheap , living in the ghetto , on food stamps & shopping at discount stores buying lots of cheap brand cookies & pastries . Great shelf life & solid stability , good for biodeisel , Nutella basically equivilent to putting chocolate coloring in Crisco adding equal parts of sugar & calling it a healthy breakfast spread . Your right though , if people want to remain ignorant to how much of this is put into stabilizing many of the foods they now consume its their fault . Just have to laugh at their advertising though which is just a little misleading ? They boast 50 hazelnuts in each jar which ground into butter would fill the jar up 1/10th of the way with the rest being this Crisco~Palm grease , 1/3cup of cocoa powder & 2cups sugar.... They say the world machinery runs on Oil , also true the human machinery runs on it too , Palm oil is going to make up 1/2 of the estimated 250mil tons of oil that will be consumed in 2050 double that now . They're planting millions of acres of it now all over , some serious deforestation issues & loss of habitat , wonder just how much of this they use in margarines now . en.wikipedia.org Gives me the idea for a healthier product to compete with them , since experimenting with my own fresh blend of ground hazelnuts , chocolate sauce & condensed milk ....already field tested & has great energy for trading all day & tastes wonderful & quick. Wonder how much of this they're adding to margarines now ?

To: average joe who wrote (25523)	4/28/2012 12:25:21 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

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]