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

[Mark Hendershott]

At 05:55 PM 11/23/04 -0600, you wrote:

>>>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

White margarine was the result of lobbying muscle by the diary 
industry.  Here in Oregon one of the classic political stories is the late 
Maueen Neuberger, then in the state house of representatives, mixing 
margarine and dye while on the house to illustrate what housewives went 
through.  The law changed.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir