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Coloring margerine
<Alan > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:42:58 -0500, Diogenes >
> wrote:
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> >On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:28:55 +0200, "Opinicus" >
> >wrote:
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> >>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.
> >----
> > Diogenes )
> >
> > The wars are long, the peace is frail
> > The madmen come again . . . .
>
>
> 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.
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I remember ours coming in a oblong plastic bag with a dye pellet and my mom
would let us knead it. I hated the stuff!
Never use anything but butter now.
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