• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      This article about margarine doesn’t say that, and contradicts that. I’ve seen videos that agree it was originally made for humans.

      After the French Emperor Napoleon III issued a challenge to create a butter-substitute from beef tallow for the armed forces and lower classes, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès invented margarine in 1869.

    • TurtlePower
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      3 months ago

      I heard it was turkeys. They made it to fatten up the birds for the Thanksgiving slaughter.