Hot off the wire!
Yellow margarine may soon be allowed in Quebec grocery stores after the province's cabinet quietly agreed to change a 21-year old law that forbids any coloured form of the oily spread to be sold in La Belle Province.
In late June, the Quebec Cabinet agreed to repeal a provincial law that prevented margarine makers in the province from adding yellow colour to their product.
The decision could open the door for margarine producers to tint their products yellow, a long standing practice in most parts of the world and in the rest of Canada.
Quebec's law was meant to protect butter producers in the market who felt threatened in the 1970s by the rise of margarine's popularity. But the federation of Quebec dairy farmers said the law is not needed anymore because margarine's popularity has dropped in recent years.
At the same time, butter has regained popularity with consumers, the federation said.
The law could be repealed as early as the end of summer.
This story remeinds me of a conversation The Missus Herself and I had. It was one of those late night conversations that makes you wonder?
"Good Night"
After reading for about an hour the "missus herself" and I turned out the lights and were preparing for sleep when her voice came out of the dark! "Do you remember a long time ago when toilet paper came in all sorts of pastel shades"
"Yea, sort of." I replied.
"Well how come now, the only kind you can get is white? Does it have something to do with the fact that the dye causes cancer" she asked?
With no obvious answer, and not wanting to get into a long discussion on cancer of the ass, I tried to change the subject.
"That's nothing, remember about thirty years ago when margarine had to be that sickly shade of white because the dairy industry didn't want it confused with butter!" I replied.
"Yea, sort of." She said.
"Well they are so far behind the times in Quebec that they still have that awful shade of white margarine and the dairy industry there just defeated another attempt to have margarine colored yellow like butter." I pronounced!
"Well that doesn't make any sense to me!" My wife said. "I don't know why butter is yellow to begin with since the milk it is made from is white!"
Now this I really didn't have an answer for and rather than see where the conversation was going next, I pretended I had fallen asleep!
Your humble servant
Allan W Janssen
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !
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