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[Martin G. Diehl]

Terry Decker 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.

Oversharing warning!      <g>

> > 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.

OK, I'll just take your word for that -- no need to 
send any samples.  Thanks.  

> > 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.  

Yes ... the uncolored margarine was in a plastic pouch 
and the coloring in a small plastic bubble inside.  You 
could break the dye packet into the uncolored margarine 
and knead the margarine until the coloring was evenly 
distributed.  

> Some time in the 1940's (IIRC), they started adding 
> yellow dye at the factory.

IIRC, factory yellow margarine wasn't available until after 
> WWII.  

> Bear 

I also remember being told that the availability of 
margarine over butter was due to the war effort.  

Vincenzo

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