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Ersatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ersatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement . Although it is used as an adjective in English, Ersatz can only function in German as a noun on its own, or as a part in ...
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Words you can enter when asked for `Ersatz butter` (Mijnwoordenboek - Crossword dictionary)
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A whole raft of ersatz products emerged at this time, and later as a result of the pressures of warfare. Margarine was an ersatz butter; Buna-Stoff was an ersatz rubber. German chemists made ersatz gasoline from coal oil, while various synthetics and plastics did duty for old-fashioned organic materials.
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Butter IS healthy. The reason why you think butter isn't healthy is because of the mud slinging marketing campaigns paid for by the soy and corn industries to promote their highly processed artificial and toxic ersatz butter spreads.
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but since I used a can that was dented, we opted to use it as an ersatz butter dish as well. This can was at room temperature, and some of the butter oozed out the sides, coating the can opener. Make sure you clean yours afterward (you should clean the can opener often, as they can get nasty through neglect).
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:For the record label, see Ersatz AudioErsatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement. Although it is used as an adjective in English, Ersatz can function in German only as a noun on its own, or as a part in compound nouns such as Ersatzteile (spare parts) or Ersatzspieler (substitute player).
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A few years back, public health officials realized that diacetyl, a chemical used in the ersatz butter flavoring on microwave popcorn, probably caused the disease in people who worked in popcorn and food-flavoring factories.
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