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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 16:51:01 -0500
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On 3/4/2025 9:58 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-03-04, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:
>> On 3/4/2025 3:28 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>> Most of the boomer generation used margarine when growing up. Margarine
>>> was seen as the healthier and cheaper alternative to butter. These days,
>>> I'll use mayo to make a grilled cheese sandwich. It's the better
>>> tasting, nicer looking alternative to butter.
>>>
>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/WoVWR1kLFAoFXo8H9
>>
>>
>> OMG, I feel left out.  Our family never got the message.  We, including
>> extended family, were stuck using pure better.
>>
>> First time I ever put margarine on toast (fixed it for Ed) what in my 30s.  We were
>> staying with friends and that is what was on the table at breakfast.
> 
> Lucky you.  My mother bought the cheapest margarine.  It wasn't
> even cut up into sticks.  If memory serves, it was 19 cents per
> pound in the 1970s.  Of course, she used to tell me how, when
> she was a kid, she had to mix in the dye to make it look less
> like vegetable shortening.
> 
I'm not sure what my parents grew up with (I think we've all heard about 
the having to dye the oleo story).  But when I was a kid she bought 
margarine, ostensibly because it was less expensive.

> We had butter on holidays.  Looking back, it was cruel.
> 
Yeah, we got to use butter on holidays.  That's when Mom would 
invariably put the dinner rolls in the oven and forget about them.  "Mom 
burned the rolls again" became a familiar holiday refrain.  Don't ask me 
why she didn't use a timer for those rolls.

Jill