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Ridiculous History

CLASSIC: The Strange Story of Canadian Margarine Bootleggers

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

True story: once upon a time, both Canada and the United States once had bizarre laws banning the production or importation of margarine -- and prohibition naturally led to crime. Today's classic episode asks: What launched the margarine bootlegging industry? Join the guys as they explore the startling, strange story of the Big Butter versus margarine.

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0:00.0

Ridiculous historians as we are working on some new episodes for you. We thought we would butter you up

0:07.5

with a classic episode for this week. I will always enjoy hearing back our conversations about margarine and butter and why the Canadians and the United Staters, I guess, have such weird laws about margarine.

0:26.5

Right, man. Oh, the idea of bootlegging margarine.

0:31.2

It's wild, I mean, you you know because margarine in and of itself

0:34.6

today is almost like I can't believe it's not butter sort of situation it's an

0:40.2

alternative supposedly with some health benefits.

0:45.0

I hate to say it, not to be a margarine naysayer,

0:49.0

but it just doesn't hit the same.

0:51.0

Does not have the same umami. It really kind of feels like a mouthful of

0:54.3

Crisco.

0:55.0

It really, you know, once you've tasted butter, it's like if you've eaten the meat of gods,

1:00.7

you're never content with the straw of fools.

1:03.4

And I think a lot of people, when they first visit

1:06.6

the United States, are startled by the yellowness of butter here,

1:11.7

because even the real butter is often colored artificially.

1:15.7

Yeah I've never understood that.

1:17.7

Yeah and to jump in here do you guys know I can't eat butter?

1:20.8

Geez the condition.

1:22.4

I assumed condition yeah well I mean I can eat butter. Geez, the condition.

1:23.0

Yeah.

1:24.0

I mean I eat dairy-free, soy-free butter, butter, quotations right there and it's pretty good

1:31.0

but it's not real butter.

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