Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans

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:

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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.
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OMG, I feel left out.  Our family never got the message.  We, including
extended family, were stuck using pure better.
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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