On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:28:55 +0200, "Opinicus"
wrote:

Frogleg said:

I've read that wartime (WWI) oleo
came with dye pellets to knead in to make the (presumably white) fat
look more like butter.

Not just during wartime. I remember being regularly given the kneading job
around 1952 or so. I would have been 7-8 years old at the time. The undied
margerine was ghastly white and looked (and tasted) like Crisco. (I remember
trying that too.)

I recall buying margarine with the separate coloring pellet in a small
Canadian trading post while on a fishing trip ~1960. My mother
commented that she hadn't seen that since the end of WWII.
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The madmen come again . . . .