DAIRY FARMERS OBJECT
USE OF WORDS “PEANUT BUTTER” (Unite*! Pres? Association! WELLINGTON, This Day. The word “butter” should be prohibited by the Government from being applied to the product marketed under thi name of “peanut butter.” the National Dairy Conference decided in Wellington yesterday. The conference was of opinion that butter was a eommodily made from the produce of cows only, and the commodity made from peanuts should be styled peanut paste” and not “peanut butter.” Mr P. Hansen, Awahuri, said (hat tr his mind the value of the word “butter” was weakened by its use in this way. Peanut butter was made wholly from nuts and oil, and contained no butter whatever. In Queensland action had been taken to prohibit the application of the words “Vtter” to the product of peanuts, and he proposed similar action be taken here. It would not cost anything, and would protect the use of the word “butter” for its proper application.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 5
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