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Default Coloring margerine

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>
> We had that stuff when I was a kid, but I don't think the real reason
> was the war. At the time, the dairy producers didn't want margarine
> on the market. While they weren't able to keep it off the market,
> they were able to keep it from being yellow, like butter.
>
> Hence, the dye 'pill'.
>
> This was in Illinois in the middle-to-late '40s.
>

I don't recall it long after the war in Texas, but margarine's growing
popularity (in no small part due to butter rationing), kept the dye pellets
and "white" margarine alive in some dairy state politics for years after,
IIRC Wisconsin?).

TMO