[Magdalen] If's Started.

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 15:34:55 UTC 2015


Margarine was white in WI and MN for a very long time because they were both big dairy states and the thought was if the state mandated margarine to be white there would be less competition with butter. 
Lynn

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On Jul 4, 2015, at 3:17 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

Disgusting stuff, whoever banned it had their head screwed on right.

It's not even cheap any more, though still costs less than butter.

But I'll admit to using a "buttermilk" medium fat spread for those
school-sandwich days when I've forgotten to take the butter out of the
fridge!

Sally D

On Saturday, July 4, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> 
> In a message dated 7/4/2015 2:41:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> momohl1 at cox.net <javascript:;> writes:
> 
>> On  7/4/2015 1:28 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> My mom remembers the white  margarine with the color pellet.>>>>
> 
> This was a transitional stage (WI/MN) which lasted a short period  before
> yellow margarine was legalized.  The white margarine bags had a
> little red button on the side that you punctured by squeezing it, and
> then worked the yellow color (rather laboriously) through the pound
> bag.  Everyone hated them.
> 
> 
> David Strang.
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