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06-04-2017, 11:45 AM | #21 |
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Anyone remember OTHER things that were RATIONED???
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06-04-2017, 08:51 PM | #23 |
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sugar was to here and meat
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Don't forget tires. In fact, here in the US, we had plenty of gasoline. The shortage was rubber. That gas rationing was intended to reduce driving to save the tires that were getting so hard to replace.
The Japanese had occupied many of the islands that produced much of the natural rubber and there was a significant shortage of all things rubber... rubber soled shoes, rain gear... and what rubber was available was going to the war effort. This is part of the reason that we have such better quality tires now. It motivated scientist and entrepreneurs to develop synthetic rubber. The pre-war tires were comparatively delicate.
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Yo, Other Bill,
A Friend, Homer Blackwell, & another Man perfected the process of turning vegetable oil into Margarine! Homer was a self taught GENIUS, I learned SO MUCH from him Bill W.
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All I get for your pictures is a demand to go somewhere to update Photobucket. Won't happen!
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Yeah Bill, But barely! It wasn't rationed by the time my memory started working, but I recall when the butter was white and you had to add the coloring. Dad would take a mixing bowl add a pound of white butter, then open a little packet of orange colored powder and then stir it with a big spoon for, what seemed like a long time. I asked him why he was doing that and was told it had something to do with the war. It wasn't too long after the war it stopped.
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Stupid photo bucket ok thats enough from them
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>>but I recall when the butter was white and you had to add the coloring.
So when did you start making orange cheese? |
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Laughing so hard I'm gasping for air!!!!
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" I remember, growing up in southern Minnesota in the '50's/early '60's, that some would drive 15 miles into Iowa to buy colored margarine which was legal there but not in Minnesota. So for 50-60 cents in gas it was worth it to them buy a few pounds of pre-colored margarine and not have to mix it. "
As a famous radio host says "Minnesota, the state where nothing is allowed". I also remember my folks mixing the dye into the margarine in the early 60's. |
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