SC - Re: Memories

[Decker, Margaret]

>      Ours were one-pound sealed bags of margarine with a knob that stuck
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> one side with a liquid colorant in it.  You pressed on it to break it (I
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> the inside of the button was thinner than the outside), then kneaded the
> color
> into the margarine.  This was the 50s rather than the 40s, but perhaps
> they were
> on the market longer in dairy country (I grew up in Minnesota).
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> Sandra Kisner
> sjk3 at cornell.edu
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>     In the forties it was a separate button or pill. You put the margarine
> in a bowl, dropped in the button, and stirred. The plastic bag that showed
> up in the fifties was an improvement. Margarite
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