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New2grammar  #472824  Tue, 05 Feb 08 05:46 AM

All our products are made using 100% vegetable oil.

All our products are prepared in 100% vegetable oil.

All our products are made in 100% vegetable oil.

Please help me identify the differences. To me, they are equivalent. Thanks in advance.

  
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Mister Micawber  #472836  Tue, 05 Feb 08 06:02 AM

All our products are made using 100% vegetable oil.-- this is the standard phraseology

All our products are prepared in 100% vegetable oil.-- sounds like the staff need goggles and flippers, or at least rubber boots.

All our products are made in 100% vegetable oil.-- sounds even odder, as if the oil were even less central to the product

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Avangi  #472843  Tue, 05 Feb 08 06:16 AM

One wonders if we're speaking of deep fried chicken or margarine.  In one case the oil is part of a process and only a small portion of it would be consumed.  In the other, the oil is an integral part of the product.

(These days, transfats are the bigger issue, which may or may not be part of 100% vegetable oil.)

They have tricky ways to confuse you.  In the first one, picture a shelf with all the ingredients in containers.  One of them is marked, "100% vegetable oil."  It's used when they make all their products.  What else do they use?  Lard, perhaps?  Do they use it as an ingredient or in the deep fryer?

Number two says "prepared in" so you know it's a deep fryer.  Likewise number three  -   made in, not made with.  "Prepared" (#2) makes it sound like they worked harder than "made" (#3).

  
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New2grammar  #472844  Tue, 05 Feb 08 06:17 AM

Does it change your interpretation if I tell you that #2 comes from the Burger King menu?

  
Mister Micawber  #472853  Tue, 05 Feb 08 06:28 AM

Not mine. Burger King marketeers are not known for their literacy.

  
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