margarine

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“Gray raindrops pattered listlessly on the kitchen window, obscuring the thin morning light” as Honor Wilson is found smearing “a dot of margarine across some toast.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Polypropylene, labeled as #5 on packaging, is used for yogurt containers, margarine tubs and microwavable trays.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

Industrial amounts of ordinary consumer goods like salt or margarine are banned, preventing local production using ordinary ingredients.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

"Skimpflation" sees the switching of expensive ingredients for cheaper ones, for example margarine where oil content is reduced and replaced with water.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2023

The cocoa was watery and the toast covered by only a thin layer of margarine, but he and Kuda were too hungry to care.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer