On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:36:08 -0800, Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.com> wrote:
> Those food-coloring capsules lasted long enough that my mother > remembers using them in the late Thirties or early Forties.
*I* remember using them. The margarine came in a bag, and you pinched it where the capsule was, then worked the sealed bag until the color was even enough to suit you.
I don't recall that we ever thought of snipping a corner of the bag and piping the margarine out, though.
Dad didn't like fake food (which I seem to have inherited, now that I'm his age), and the rest of us didn't prefer margarine, so I didn't see very many margarine bags.
In article <nf4cf51a599kc8akcaf20cb0dbelptv...@4ax.com>, Joy Beeson <jbee...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:36:08 -0800, Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.com> >wrote:
>> Those food-coloring capsules lasted long enough that my mother >> remembers using them in the late Thirties or early Forties.
>*I* remember using them. The margarine came in a bag, and you pinched >it where the capsule was, then worked the sealed bag until the color >was even enough to suit you.
>I don't recall that we ever thought of snipping a corner of the bag >and piping the margarine out, though.
My mother never did that. When the margarine was evenly colored, she molded it back into an approximate brick shape, put it back into the fridge till it was reasonably hard, and then cut the bag off it.
>Dad didn't like fake food (which I seem to have inherited, now that >I'm his age), and the rest of us didn't prefer margarine, so I didn't >see very many margarine bags.
We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This was right after WWII, my father was holding down a horrid little teaching job in Santa Maria, and we didn't have money to spare till his GI Bill funding came through and we moved to Palo Alto so he could get his doctorate at Stanford.
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>> We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This >> was right after WWII
>Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that >were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
I don't. I was born six months after Pearl Harbor, and by the time I was old enough to notice things like that, the war was over.
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erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >> We didn't like margarine either, but butter was expensive. This >> was right after WWII
>Harking back to the original subject: I remember all the things that >were hard to get DURING the war, and ration stamps.
And the crispy bacon we had before the war!
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Only, glancing over it, I note one mistake: ration books were issued to individuals, not families.
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