About 20 years ago I bought my Grama one of those books that grandparents fill in for grandkids that tell about their lives. My grandparents had awesome stories. But, it was so funny getting Grama to fill in the book. One question was, "What is the most wonderful technological advance you've seen in your lifetime?"
Her answer was "Pre-colored margerine"
WHAT????
And then she told this long story about how when margerine first came out as a sub for butter everybody was used to yellow butter but the margerine was white like shortening so it came with this packet of dye that you had to mix in to make it all yellow.
Only thing was the margerine was real hard - harder than stick margerine is now so it was a tough job to mix the dye. I asked her why they didn't just use it without the dye and forget mixing if it was all that bad. She said, "Well you couldn't do that because then the margerine wouldn't taste right. The dye didn't have any flavor but yellow tastes better than white."
All I can ever think of when that comes up now is yellow snow! oooooo sick!