[Diana in Wisconsin]

I was brought up believing it was against the law to substitute anything for butter!

I used to go on ‘Oleo Runs’ with Mom & Grandma down to IL in the dark of night. If I was good, I was allowed to mix the yellow food coloring into it when we got home. Fun times...and it got me started on my lifelong quest of subverting government wherever I could, LOL! :)

[magslinger]

My mother tells about some neighbors she had when she was a girl. They were dairy farmers and this happened during WWII when real butter was hard to come by. The neighbors had a guest to lunch and he kept raving about how good the "real dairy butter" was.

Nobody had the heart to tell him that every ounce of butterfat went to town in milk cans and what he was eating was margarine that had been put into butter molds after mixing in the dye.