"Dr. Dog" wrote:

> Slightly OT, but you prodded my memory. When I was a very small kid, my
> Mom gave me the task of kneading margarine--it came in a box like
> butter, but inside was a thick platic wrap and a little bubble of
> yellow food-colouring to be mixed by kneading with the white,
> lardy-looking paste. First time I tasted butter was when we moved to
> Quebec--where margarine was illegal!

Margarine is not illegal in Montreal.
It cannot be dyed yellow to look like butter. It used to be illegal to
sell yellow margarine in Ontario too.