Good luck getting REAL butter anywhere but a grocery.
From 1925-1967 margarine was banned from sale in the state of Wisconsin. I guess Wisconsinites even tried smuggling it in, or making what they called “oleo runs” from Illinois. Thousands of Wisconsinites became fake-butter law breaking felons.
You criminals!
No joke. Wisconsin statute 98.17 has been in place since 1895 and it still stands today. It’s still illegal for restaurants to serve margarine – unless the customer specifically orders it. The “yellow stick from Satan himself,” as Governor Warren Knowles called it – is also a big no no in prisons, hospitals, schools or other state institutions – unless absolutely necessary for health reasons.
My Uncle was a dairy farmer, and I first had butter there when I was about 10. I never ate margarine again, and I had to buy my own butter out of my paper route profits. Mother grew up on a farm during the depression and wouldn’t have it, she ate that horrendous ‘Weight Watchers’ garbage, never mind she was 5’ 7” and never went over 125#. No wonder she died at 66.
This is news to me.
My father was from a poor, Depression family; he did some varmint hunting occasionally as a boy. They could not afford butter.
He once told me how they would take a brick of margarine and play catch with: that broke up the dye inside and blended it to make the margarine yellow instead of white.
I now wonder how and where they got the bricks.