Margarine came about during the War as a substitute for butter, which was rationed. It was called “Oleo” and was white so the sellers couldn’t pass it off as butter. And the Oleo came with a small pack of yellow dye which you had to stir in if you wanted it to be yellow. The stirring was my job when I was little. After the War we went to butter full time but Mom usually kept a brick of Oleo in the frige to grease pans and stuff like that. Sometime in the past 8 decades I might have bought a brick of Oleo to maybe grease an axle or something. The chemistry is a close cousin to the lube oil that the Germans developed for their submarine diesel engines during WW I-—stunk less than oil.
LOL I love how you put things. You have a way with words!
My mother described that mixing the yellow dye operation to me when I was a small child.
I read that Napoleon invented oleo-margarine, can’t remember any more details. It was of course noxious to start with. And now with hydrogenated oils... GACK
And back in the day in the Dairy State, “oleo” was banned, so people used to make trips across the border to Illinois to buy it. 😆🤦🏼♀️