On 12/11/2014 9:38 AM, KenK wrote:
> jmcquown > wrote in news:ceteb0F5omlU1
> @mid.individual.net:
>
>> All through my childhood my mother used margarine because it was less
>> costly.
>
> Remember the white margarine in the clear plastic bag with the little
> orange pill?

Sorry, I'm not that old. I remember my mother talking about adding the
food colour to oleo. This was in the 1930's and 40's.

I always got recruited to knead the bag into a butter-colored
> result. I wonder how many families without kids bothered to buy and knead
> this?
>
Wasn't butter rationed during and after WWII?

I don't think kids were necessary for squishing in the dye packet. If
you didn't add it you were left with ugly white stuff to spread on bread
and vegetables. Yellow oleo looked more palatable.

Jill