BTW, I still remember when there were stores on the Illinois/Wisconsin border that sold "Oleo" to the poor Wisconsinonians who had been denied their god-given right to buy freedom butter. (There was also a bizarre law that said that people had to buy oleo only in the uncolored form, so that they bought the dye separately and mixed them up.)
> > according to the HistoryDaily.com, on this day in 1861 Frenchman > > Hippolyte Mouries patented margarine. Tom: > I wouldn't spread that around, if I were you. -- Jim Devine (whose uncle allegedly invented soft margarine -- by telling the manufacturers that the hardener wasn't needed.)
