Weird Household Chemistry.

[joe greiner]

A: As any single bloke knows, Thursday is washing the damned dishes day.

B: It's not Peanut BUTTER it's Peanut PASTE!

C: Why on earth are you washing the jars anyway???

A: No, September is washing the dishes month.
B: Whatever.
C: For storing nuts and bolts, for Heaven's sake.

During WW2 in USA, margarine was white, and the package included a squeeze-pack of yellow colouring for household conversion. IIRC, this was a legal requirement. And until around 1965-70(?), margarine, coloured or not, was forbidden in Wisconsin (America's Dairyland).

Joe

[prozac]

And until around 1965-70(?), margarine, coloured or not, was forbidden in Wisconsin (America's Dairyland). Joe

Margarine bootlegging?

[Poppa]

Sorry, the information I supplied wasn't quite complete. I did grow up in Qld where this law did indeed apply. Don't know if it applied in other states or not. It has long since been rescinded and no longer applies. But Queenslanders of a certain vintage grew up with this substance being called "peanut paste". The first time I heard it referred to as "peanut butter" I wondered if they'd invented some new wonderful substance that was even better than "peanut paste". Sadly, no, they were one and the same substance...

[joe greiner]

Margarine bootlegging?

Yes, at least within a few miles of bordering states.

Joe

[tea lady]

Just had a bit of bread/butter/and a peanut derived substance.....whilst I was cooking dinner.

Bugger me!........it was a jar of Peanut BUTTER according to the label.

2 cents please.

Will you take a cheque?

IIRC, the law applied in Queensland & maybe some other states. I don't think it ever applied in NSW, but was introduced by the Country Party Govt. to protect the dairy farmers, in the same spirit as the law that said margarine couldn't be coloured to look like butter - had to be green.

Maybe the peanut growers didn't want people to think there was butter in the jar. Isn't peanuts grown in qld? sounds a bit more like qld logic!!!! And green marg? Which green? Puce or bottle?

[AlexS]

Will you take a cheque?

And green marg? Which green? Puce or bottle?

Bile.

[Woodwould]

What's going on here? Are you all pregnant?

[tea lady]

What's going on here? Are you all pregnant?

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!


Maybe its a full moon?

[watson]

I am............and the full moon is on the 15th.

[Woodwould]

Maybe its a full moon?

No, I remembered to put my trousers on today.

[tea lady]

No, I remembered to put my trousers on today.

That's good!!!!!!



I've run out of theories though!!!