Evening yorkie, how are ya??!!
Thank you, I am doing just wonderful! No snow or rain, here in the high desert, I’ve got a roof over my head and food in my tummy. What more could I want? Friends - I’ve got you all!
I was just researching ‘oleo’. I was talking to a friend on the phone tonight, and I brought up ‘oleo’. (Thanks, Kathy!) She doesn’t remember the plastic bag with the white ‘oleo’ and the yellow dye capsule.
As children, Grandma would hand us the bag to mush and squeeze on, breaking the capsule, and turning the contents all yellow, so it would look like butter.
I found this:
“Oleo is margarine, a substitute for butter as a spread for bread or in cooking and baking. It is made from vegetable oils. I remember years ago back in the 30’s it was all white when it was sold in my state. If you really wanted it to look like butter it came with a little capsule of food coloring that you broke and stirred the contents into it. A few years later it came in plastic like bag and the color capsule was inside with it. You would squeeze the cap to break it and then squish it around in the bag til it was yellow. You would the cut the corner off the bag and squeeze the colored margarine- Oleo- out into a dish or a mold. It had a good flavor and was much more economical than regular butter. Us kids thought it was great fun to get to mix it.
It was salted.”
Anybody else remember those bags?