Anya ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.)
I think Oleo was a brand name that wound up like Xerox or Band Aids or Saltines.
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.
tore it down
!!!?!?!?!?!
so WEIRD
you misspelled "awesome and proof that things are sometimes right in the world."
When I hear "oleo" my first reaction is to think of shock absorbers for aircraft.
Interesting tidbit, Rick.
In news guaranteed to make SA howl:
The era of carefree, unlimited Internet browsing and downloading might be coming to an end.
Industry leaders Comcast and Time Warner Cable have started testing traffic-metering and management techniques that seek to rein in heavy usage, and AT&T says such limits are inevitable for the most extreme users of its network.
That means that for the first time since the era of dial-up access, Internet providers are looking to count how many bytes a customer uses, potentially ending or significantly altering the practice of all-you-can-eat broadband consumption.
The providers say the initiatives - which are only tests at this point - are aimed at a certain subset of heavy users who consume an inordinate amount of bandwidth, threatening the performance of the network for other customers.
I think Oleo was a brand name that wound up like Xerox or Band Aids or Saltines.
While it may have been a brand name (I don't know for sure), the word oleo is a shortened form of oleomargarine, which was the butter substitute invented by a French chemist at the request of Napoleon.
Napoleon wanted a butter substitute that would go bad, for use by the army and the lower classes.
The word oleo is derived from the term "oleic acid," which basically means "oil."
makes note to get some downloads asap.
They are marketing Cool Whip in a can. It's new.
While it may have been a brand name (I don't know for sure), the word oleo is a shortened form of oleomargarine
Like canola.