The margarine police have been spying on Wal-Mart stores in Quebec.
Wal-Mart's crime? Selling yellow margarine. Quebec is the only place in the world that still bans yellow margarine. Seems the authorities think people might confuse yellow margarine with butter.
A court case against Unilever (makers of yellow margarine) went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada which earlier this year ruled that Quebec had the right to maintain the ban on yellow margarine. [Montreal Gazette]
Just imagine those inspectors opening tub after tub labelled "margarine" to see whether the contents look like yellow butter!
To further complicate this close-to-the-heart issue, one butter-making company recently decided to market a "lite" butter -- which is white.
So, what's next? A law dictating that butter must be yellow?
Or that Quebeckers be taught to read?
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