I didn't call it oleo, but my grandmother did.
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Sean K - Jun 23, 2008 8:23:12 am PDT #4450 of 10003
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Dana - Jun 23, 2008 8:24:36 am PDT #4451 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, my grandmother too.
sarameg - Jun 23, 2008 8:24:42 am PDT #4452 of 10003
I know my when my mother was young, the margarine was white and they stirred in the yellow dye themselves.
My mom remembers it came in a bag with a capsule and you'd break the capsule and knead the color into the margarine.
Which is really funny when you consider that she grew up on a farm that raised DAIRY COWS.
Thanks for the restaurant reccs. I just eat out so infrequently, it is as if I'm blind to their existance. Sort of like when msbelle asked me where the nearest Starbucks was in my hood and I had no freaking clue. And there are at least 3, maybe 4 within 2 miles. I just never registered them before.
DavidS - Jun 23, 2008 8:26:49 am PDT #4453 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did anyone else grow up calling margarine "oleo", or is it jus t me?
My mom called it Oleo. That's a WWII phrase, I think.
msbelle - Jun 23, 2008 8:29:33 am PDT #4454 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sara, heads up - I'll want to know where there's a Dunkin Donuts AND a Baskin Robbins. Good thing you've got the BK all scoped out.
My boss is leaving early. WHEE! And then out the next 3 days.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2008 8:30:24 am PDT #4455 of 10003
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You know-- being raised by grandparents who were born in the 1910's really makes me sound old! I also said "ashcans" for metal trash cans, "davenport" for sofa, and "dungarees" for jeans.
DavidS - Jun 23, 2008 8:33:38 am PDT #4456 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know-- being raised by grandparents who were born in the 1910's really makes me sound old! I also said "ashcans" for metal trash cans, "davenport" for sofa, and "dungarees" for jeans.
It makes you sound like Mr. Burns.
sarameg - Jun 23, 2008 8:36:31 am PDT #4457 of 10003
Good thing you've got the BK all scoped out.
Actually, I don't know if the one nearest me will be open yet. They tore it down and are putting in a new one.
DD right up the road. And there is one of those DD/BR co-stores not much furhter (I only noticed that because so WEIRD.)
Trudy Booth - Jun 23, 2008 8:37:25 am PDT #4458 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think Oleo was a brand name that wound up like Xerox or Band Aids or Saltines.
Rick - Jun 23, 2008 8:37:53 am PDT #4459 of 10003
My mom remembers it came in a bag with a capsule and you'd break the capsule and knead the color into the margarine.
This was true in most dairy states. It was illegal to sell yellow margarine, on the grounds that people might get confused and think it was butter. To protect the dairy industry, the yellow and the margarine had to be in separate packages.