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Sauce please. Link please.
Oh dear ...
So I heard that decades ago from someone or other and I guess I never fact checked it. Go looking for some sauce and apparently:
Emperor Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could make a satisfactory butter alternative, suitable for use by the military and the poor. French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès invented a substance he called oleomargarine, which became shortened to the trade name margarine. Mège-Mouriès patented the concept in 1869 and expanded his initial manufacturing operation from France, but had little commercial success. In 1871, he sold the patent to the Dutch company Jurgens, now part of Unilever -Wikipedia
Oops, guess I have to stop using that now, apologies. And yet interesting, Unilever.
I 'member oleomargarine.
The wiki article was actually rather interesting. Apparently there was once a margarine made from coal. No, seriously, from freaking coal. Took a wacko process and some 40kg of coal was turned into a kg of "coal butter", discontinued due to "inefficiency" of the process. Wow, synthetic foods.