It was Americans who created fake leather, wood, metal, glass, fake wool and linen, fake virgin olive oil and, eventually, fake people. The list is almost endless. Any natural product that could possibly be counterfeited – but nevertheless sold as the real thing – was produced and sold.
[unz.com]
There has always been an undercurrent of "plastic" products in America.
I always thought it was from petroleum to plastic. Now I know it is really from snake oil to plastic . . . nothing is what it seems . . . nothing is real but God and His creation. Everything that man can create on his own is all sham, phony, and plastic.