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

Ugh! _I_ remember that too well...Gas Stamps (Not a problem with _my_ car--
it did quite well on kerosene (After the engine was warm :-)
 
-> The real butter I think was going to the various armed services during
both
-> wars (WWII and Korean).

I hated margarine for years...


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