TIM RICHARDSON -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 TR> On 04-14-08, MIMI GALLANDT said to ED HULETT:


 EH>>>> My mother used to tell us kids how she had to mix the
yellow color
 EH>>>> into the margarine they got in trade for the dairy
products they gave
 EH>>>> to the government.


 TR> That was real. I remember doing that. The margarine came in a one pound
 TR> flat
 TR> rectangular plastic package, with a cherry or something like it right in
 TR> the
 TR> middle on one side. You broke the cherry with your thumb and squeezed the
 TR> package with the fingers of both hands to mix the coloring and `yellow' the
 TR> butter.

Yes, that's what I was told by my mom and grandmother. (Usually when I say
my mom I'm talking about my stepmother I really wasn't old enough for these
kinds of things before my birth mother died).

 TR> The real butter I think was going to the various armed services during both
 TR> wars (WWII and Korean).

I hadn't realized that the rationing continued through Korea. :)

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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