cybercat wrote on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:11:10 -0400:


> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
> ...
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> I saw a recipe in r.f.recipes that called for oleo or
>>> butter. Am I correct in saying that oleo means margerine?
>>> Perhaps ChattyCathy might think it worthy of a survey.
>>>
>> IIRC, its full name is oleomargarine.
>>
>My mother recalled getting the lump of white stuff with the packet of
>yellow coloring during WWII. She hated it so much she never ate or used
>anything but real butter for the rest of her life.

While WWII places in time the practice of supplying the coloring matter
separately, it had little to do with the war. The need to personally add
the color was a concession in some states to the Wisconsin dairy
industry, AFAIK.


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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