The Grocer’s Encyclopedia

Artemas Ward’s Encyclopedia of Foods and Beverages — New York, 1911

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BUTTERINE

an artificial butter composed of beef oil, neutral lard, etc. See article on OLEOMARGARINE.

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2026 Editor's Note: "Butterine" is margarine under a name chosen to sound like butter, and the dairy states fought it with extraordinary ferocity: heavy federal taxes, licensing, and laws in several states requiring margarine to be dyed pink so nobody could mistake it. Some of those statutes survived into the 1960s. (Ed: BR 2026-07-08)

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