Sold Yellow Where Laws Permit

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[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

There were laws against coloring oleo?

[gridlockjoe.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy. Up until 1967 in Wisconsin. Yellow margarine is still illegal in Quebec.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I've obviously underestimated the power of the Butter Lobby.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

My mother remembers when it came with a color capsule, and it was the kids' job to sit there and squish the color into the margarine.

[nonamouse.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, my dad too (who was in South Dakota.)

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

My mom told me that too.

When I was a kid I always chose butter over margarine. Turns out I was right.

[lokifin.livejournal.com]

My dad's uncle would make margarine runs over the border to Iowa for margarine that didn't need mixing. Breakin'thelawbreakin'thelaw!

[badfae.livejournal.com]

What? That's bizarre.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

On a complete tangent, back in the last century there was a manufacturer who sold canned salmon. His salmon was as good as anybody's, but it was white instead of pink, and nobody was buying it.

He went to a famous PR man who listened to his problem and then wrote a line of copy to put on the product. This single line of text was strictly true, and so successful that the cans were a huge seller, and other salmon manufacturers went to court to stop him.

The line added to the label copy read: "Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can."

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

You got me. It's from Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me. I neglected to disclaim it. So much for brevity.