I was just thinking that we’ve had corn-oil products that closely resemble butter all my life.
I admire the company’s chutzpah, though.
“I admire the company’s chutzpah, though.”
You know I don’t, it insults my intelligence and that irritates me.
My grandparents told me about having to make “artificial butter” yellow by squeezing the color into it.
“First, butter substitutes were outlawed entirely. Then the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. Then yellow butter substitutes were outlawed. Besides forcing the sale of white margarine (not very appetizing-looking), margarine was sometimes required to be pink or red or even black (even LESS appetizing). Because these laws were enacted state by state, people would cross state lines to obtain yellow margarine or dye packets for the white stuff and smuggle it back to their own states. Then various onerous taxes were applied.”
” The oleomargarine manufactures, realizing that people wanted YELLOW spread, added color capsules that could be stirred into the oleo. While it was illegal for them to sell colored margarine, the law did not prohibit people from coloring it once they bought it. It was kind of messy, but Cudahy (the meat packers) in 1947 got the bright idea of packaging the capsule of food coloring inside a heavy plastic bag that contained the white margarine.”
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