Yellow margarine! Get it where you can!

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Woman's Day, 1949:



Same magazine, other issues the same year:




Ladies' Home Journal, also from 1949:




I've noticed also an interesting bit of forgotten jargon:  apparently the long, narrow quarters of margarine were called "prints".

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew before today that it used to be illegal to color margarine yellow. Internet research showed me that, as I suspected, it was the dairy industry which pushed for the laws.

[grammardog]

It was illegal in Quebec right up to 2008!