Margarine one molecule from plastic?

[fuzynugz]

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

I don't know if this is rumor or not. All I keep coming up with is this one article.

[uwaf]

Yes I read that they made it to fatten turkeys, found out it was killing too many. Decided to color it yellow and call it good for you. And that it is one molecule away from plastic.

[thought_criminal]

Umm...  Plastic *IS* a molecule. ANYTHING is "one molecule away" from being plastic.
Do you mean to say one atom? That margarine is a long polymer chain like plastic?

LMAO UNITEDWEREFALLING, it wouldn't surprise me about the thing about the turkeys.

[spector7]

Could be one of the reasons why so many people are getting cancer now.

[fuzynugz]

Umm...  Plastic *IS* a molecule. ANYTHING is "one molecule away" from being plastic.
Do you mean to say one atom? That margarine is a long polymer chain like plastic?

LMAO UNITEDWEREFALLING, it wouldn't surprise me about the thing about the turkeys.

Ah, I donno I peeped this article and it concerned me.  I'm not a chemist or nothing. I know nothing about atoms and molecules.

[wadswerth]

This is like the same type of thing people send around in emails, there have been ones like women who licked a envolpe with spider eggs on it had spiders hatch in her lip, and crap like that.

Margarine is made from partially hydrogenated oils. The greater the hydrogenation, the harder the margarine. Other ingredients are
added for flavor: buttermilk, salt, preservatives, vitamins

PET Plastics  Its monomer can be synthesized by the esterification reaction between terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol with water as a byproduct, or the transesterification reaction between ethylene glycol and dimethyl terephthalate with methanol as a byproduct

Those appear to be 2 totaly seperate things with no simaler ingredents used between them.  Ide call them different completely.

And every place i have looked says margarine was made in the late 1800's by a frenchman at the request of the emporerer for a butter substitute. with no mention execpt for the snopes website (which even says) that margarine was never used for fatting up turkeys.

[thought_criminal]

God bless ppl with more spare time than I.  I'm working 12 hours a day lately.  I figured the whole Plastic margarine thing was goofy, but didn't have the time to check it out.

[KreedKafer]

I agree.

[esquared]

When my parents switched to margarine when I was a kid I never used it . Went back to butter when I turned 18 and now my parents each mow through a couple pounds of butter a week .

[uwaf]

A couple pounds a week? My family of four uses a 1/2 pound a week. Unless I bake.