On 03/08/2010 07:04 AM, Mimi Gallandt -> Bob Ackley wrote:
 MG> Bob Ackley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 BA>> Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Ross Cassell:

 RC>>>> (5) The serving of oleomargarine or margarine to students,
 RC>>>> patients or inmates of any state institutions as a
 RC>>>> substitute for table butter is prohibited, except that
 RC>>>> such substitution may be ordered by the institution
 RC>>>> superintendent when necessary for the health of a specific
 RC>>>> patient or inmate, if directed by the physician in charge
 RC>>>> of the patient or inmate.

 MG>>> It has nothing on topic, but when I read this I was reminded
 MG>>> of one of the things we had to go without during WWII.
 MG>>> Prior to the war margarine was white in color and you had
 MG>>> to get some food color additive to make the margarine
 MG>>> yellow like butter.

 BA>> That was true well into the 1950s. Stores were not allowed to sell
 BA>> yellow margarine because of laws/rules passed at the behest of the
 BA>> US dairy industry. They had to sell white margarine along with an
 BA>> included packet of yellow coloring that the customer had to mix in.
 BA>> Somewhere in the mid 1950s those laws/rules were repealed.

 MG> I didn't realize it went that long. One thing about having an elderly
 MG> grandmother is hyou can listen to her stories and they seem real to you.
 MG> My grand mother (mother's mother) was 87 years old when she died in
 MG> 1981. I miss her terribly.

My mother would tell us kids when we were growing up how she had the chore
of mixing the carotene packet into the white margarine to make it look like
butter. Interestingly enough, she lived on a dairy farm, but they sold the
milk and cream to the government instead of using any themselves. This was
during the depression and WWII. I always thought it was strange for them to
sell the good dairy products all to the government and then have to use
inferior imitation dairy products for themselves.

Ed

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