Cholesterol- was- Re: [Sca-cooks] Margerine was:Maybe It Is RocketScience: Bread

[Terry Decker]

>> Yeah, Canada has a food law where you can't make margarine look like
>>
>>butter.  Margarine comes in all kinds of odd colors there....including 
>>clear,
>>which remarkably resembles vaseline.
>>
> Are you sure?  I've lived in Canada all my life and have never seen weird 
> colored margarine before - they've always been butter colored.  Is it 
> April fools day again, so soon :-) ?  Colored ketchup on the other hand, 
> is all the rage right now... I find the purple to be the most disturbing.
>
> Faerisa

When it was originally brought out in the U.S., margarine was white, like 
lard.  You added yellow dye to make people think they were eating butter. 
Some time in the 1940's (IIRC), they started adding yellow dye at the 
factory.

Bear