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To: stylin19a
at one time margarine (oleo) was banned in wisc.

My recollection was that colored margarine was banned. You could still buy pale margarine that didn't look like butter, and you could even get packs of coloring that you'd have to mix it in yourself. Nobody in Wisconsin wanted that hassle, so we'd just smuggle in normal colored margarine from Illinois if we wanted some. Of course real butter did taste better than margarine; it was just much more expensive as a result of the protection from competition that the state government gave to dairy farmers.

22 posted on 03/12/2017 1:23:03 PM PDT by dpwiener
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To: dpwiener

My father tells exactly this same story.


54 posted on 03/12/2017 2:24:12 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: dpwiener

Haha! I think this is funny. In the 1950’s when margarine became popular, there was such a law also in Minnesota. It was supposed to protect the dairy market.

We would have to squeeze the yellow dye bubble and then play with the bag of margarine to get the color equally dispersed in the margarine. But I think that silly law expired about 40 years ago


77 posted on 03/12/2017 3:07:40 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: dpwiener

There was a store in Illinois, along 41 just south of the border, that had an enormous white neon sign reading “OLEOMARGARINE” for the benefit of travelers from Wisconsin. An old friend said you could see it for miles...I believe it may have once been the world’s largest freestanding neon sign.


84 posted on 03/12/2017 3:30:43 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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