I know that some of these products are hydrocarbons- butanes or propanes, and are frowned upon by auto a/c techs.
Yeah, there are some brands of butter that come in different fat percentages for different purposes, and they are still absolutely just churned butter - President, for example, manufactures butter in sheets for making croissant dough, with a higher than average fat content
I knew Country Crock wasn’t real butter.
Eh, don’t care. I like it on a biscuit.
I have butter butter too. 
Oh, Prevagen, the “improve your memory and brain health” supplement is worthless.
Expensive vitamins. With a dollop of Jellyfish goo.
The John Walsh shilled Omega. Don’t spend your $$. Green lip mussels can’t be that good. Cause they also use it in skin creams. Them mussels must be pain free AND no wrinkles. “So proud of Myself!!”
Or you can get Cindys rotten cantaloupe slime for your “Ageless” skin.
Listen, read labels. Especially if its expensive.
I was disappointed that I could not find a single video that showed a bidet attachment in use. Not even on an adult site. I thought I found one judging by the thumbnail for the video but the company used a flesh colored balloon to make the video.
I didn’t know people make croissants from scratch at home, given the availability of the preformed unbaked dough.
And BTW, regarding butter, the one I’m kind of curious to try is called Animal Farm butter and it’s something like sixty bucks a pound. I think it’s what’s served in high-end restaurants like The French Laundry.
I came in here to post about HeadOn. The reason for those vague, non-specific ads was that it was a homeopathic product, lacking any active ingredient in any significant concentration. They had apparently run ads in which they claimed headache relief, but stopped doing so after the Better Business Bureau threatened to bring their ads to the attention of the FDA. And, so, the manufacturer came up with an earworm of an ad campaign which implied, but never came out and said, what the purported purpose of the product was.
I believe, though I am not certain, that claims of pain relief are considered to be a drug claim by the FDA, and are regulated appropriately, including the fact that only products with vetted active ingredients which have been shown to actually serve the claimed purpose can be marketed as providing the benefit.
But would you have bought it?
Marketing is to compel you to buy stuff, not to give you reasons not to buy it. The only honest and full disclosure you should expect it that which is mandated by law or regulation.
Yes, it is that hard.
In the US, to be labeled as margarine, a product must contain at least 80% fat, according to the eCFR (.gov). This is a federal standard, and products with lower fat content are typically labeled as “spreads” or “table spreads”.
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This is apparently because it’s not technically margarine, either.
Apparently, government regulations define a “margarine” (for marketing/labeling purposes) as having at least an 80% fat content; Country Crock has less than that. Their label says – in a typeface and font size that almost undoubtedly exactly meets the minimum labeling requirement for legal purposes – “38% VEGETABLE OIL SPREAD” (see the lower right portion of the picture below). So, it’s a “spread.”
Thus, you might ask, “then what the hell else is in it?” The answer appears to be mostly “water;” the ingredient label lists “purified water” as the first ingredient.
I think it’s for commercial bakeries
Margarine isn’t a word I have seen on margarine for years, here in the UK - even for products that are exactly what used to be called marg.
I think it’s partly because the word got associated with a lot of negative ideas, many of which probably arose as dairy industry propaganda.
So now we have things like ‘vegetable spread for baking’ even though the word ‘spread’ is out of place
Vegan “butter” makers are very cognizant of this, and make sure to maintain less than 80% fat content lest they have to call themselves vegan margarine.
Sorry, can’t pull up the correct Imgur link on my phone.
Also, for what it’s worth, what is now called Country Crock used to be branded as “Shedd’s Spread Country Crock.” At some point after Unilever bought the brand in 1984, the “Shedd’s Spread” part of the name went away.
Their current packaging amuses me a lot, as far as being casually (and undoubtedly intentionally) misleading. They depict a wholesome family farm on the label, state “Starts with Farm Grown Ingredients,” and “Churned in Kansas.” It’s made with soybean oil and palm oil (the latter of which is not grown on Midwestern farms), and it’s “churned” at a large manufacturing plant – which does happen to be in Kansas.
I don’t see margarine for sale much here in the US. Not labelled as such anyway. Other spreads like the ubiquitous “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter ®” dominate that market. They do taste a lot like butter, at least when spread cold. For cooking purposes the results vary.
That’s where it seems to really matter. Try making the same cookie recipe with butter and then with margarine. Not the same thing and butter is better.
I suppose there may be some recipes made to use margarine but I have never sought any of those out.
I focused mainly on the nutrition info on the back, which showed lower saturated fat and no trans fat, as compared to the butter I had been buying. Plus it was a BOGO sale iirc.
In the U.S., any claim that a product will diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease instantly reclassifies it as a drug, meaning you need rigorous clinical trials and FDA approval—regardless of how solid the evidence is for its individual ingredients.
Yeah, it’s less critical for cakes - but then there are plenty of good cake recipes that just use a cup of vegetable oil or whatever. For cookies, the mechanical properties of the butter vs marg, when it is chilled and as it melts, have a significant effect on the bake.
My Granny always called margarine “Oleo”.
I guess it was a Brand name.
I never understood her buying it.
She baked and cooked with butter she traded the neighbor some eggs, for.
She was a great country cook.
Her butter chicken was to die for.
It’s not a brand name. Just an old name for margarine.
Google tells me, ““Oleo” is derived from “oleomargarine,” the original name for the product.” Also, oleo (the term) was more a southern thing.
That said, I remember the term from when I was a kid. I think my grandma called it that (and she was from Wisconsin mostly).