To: taxcontrol
“I am old enough to have learned ...
I am old enough to remember when margarine was first introduced, and it is naturally white, and the butter people wouldn’t allow it to be dyed yellow when sold, so the margarine people put the margarine in clear bags with a capsule of dye included. The buyer would massage the bag until the dye was evenly distributed.
To: cymbeline
I am old enough to remember when margarine was first introduced, and it is naturally white, and the butter people wouldn’t allow it to be dyed yellow when sold, so the margarine people put the margarine in clear bags with a capsule of dye included. The buyer would massage the bag until the dye was evenly distributed. You must be really old, my mother told me the same history.
God bless your knowledge of history, and your longevity.
25 posted on
12/15/2022 2:46:37 PM PST by
DallasBiff
(Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: cymbeline
“I am old enough to remember when margarine was first introduced, and it is naturally white, and the butter people wouldn’t allow it to be dyed yellow when sold, so the margarine people put the margarine in clear bags with a capsule of dye included. The buyer would massage the bag until the dye was evenly distributed.”
yep, during WWII my father and his siblings would skip the coloring step and just spread the white poison directly on their sandwich bread ...
32 posted on
12/15/2022 2:55:08 PM PST by
catnipman
(In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
To: cymbeline
We used to buy it that way. My father would buy a case of colored margarine, when we went to Iowa, to save the trouble of squeezing the bags.
40 posted on
12/15/2022 3:17:25 PM PST by
Fireone
(When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
To: cymbeline
53 posted on
12/15/2022 3:42:05 PM PST by
mylife
(And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
To: cymbeline
My mother told me about having to do that
56 posted on
12/15/2022 3:51:50 PM PST by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: cymbeline
Do you remember when every store sold lard?
I remember 1 pound wax box cartons and 3 pound buckets on the shelf with the baking goods.
Boxes of Fleishman’s yeast and other things the home cook needed.
Better days.
59 posted on
12/15/2022 4:02:54 PM PST by
oldvirginian
(When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
To: cymbeline
I too, remember mixing the dye with the margarine. Saving the grease from cooking, clean and smashing tin cans, tooth paste tubes (for the tin) & new papers. Then dad would turn the collection in every Friday. This was all for the war effort.
Don't forget Postum an instant type of coffee substitute made from roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
67 posted on
12/15/2022 4:50:07 PM PST by
Don_Ret_USAF
("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People."er)
To: cymbeline
“margarine in clear bags with a capsule of dye included.”
I think I remember seeing Mom do that. Margerine — oleo — is/was disgusting.
To: cymbeline
I loved mixing the margarine!
91 posted on
12/15/2022 6:51:01 PM PST by
Silentgypsy
(In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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