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Skriven 2006-04-24 16:48:38 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 27966 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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21 Apr 06 09:35, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> Quoting Roy Witt to Paul Sanders <=-

 PS>>>> limited sugar, fuel, tyres, all part of teh effort to supply goods
 PS>>>> to the war effort.

 RW>>> If we didn't have to supply the rest of the world with that stuff,
 RW>>> there would have been plenty to go around.

 PS>> the U.S didn't 'have to' send supplies to other countries, the U.S
 PS>> chose to do that.

 RW>> The US chose to send supplies to other countries because they asked
 RW>> for our help. Otherwise, we would have stayed home and let them
 RW>> fight it out. We already learned that lesson in WW1.

 PS>>>> What was available after the war was declared over ?

 RW>>> Not much. It took a year or two for the factories to re-tool for
 RW>>> regular porduction. The auto makers didn't produce any new cars
 RW>>> until 1946 and they were made from tooling that was moth balled in
 RW>>> 1941...

 PS>> Foodstuffs were easier to purchase ?

 RW>> Yeup. We even replaced our 'ice box' with a refrigerator to keep it
 RW>> fresh. Milk returned to the glass bottle from waxed paper cartons
 RW>> and there was plenty of sugar for my cereal every morning.  And a
 RW>> new thing appeared on the market, although I suspect that it was
 RW>> available for military personel during the war, margerine. But it
 RW>> wasn't like we have today. It looked like lard in a plastic bag and
 RW>> there was an orange dot (dye) that you squeezed and then mixed with
 RW>> the white stuff to make it yellow.

 FS> It was funny about margarine those days.  The reason you had to
 FS> mix the color itself was due to pressure by the dairy interests
 FS> who were pushing *butter* and feared competition.  They wanted
 FS> margarine colored *purple* to distinguish it from butter.  What
 FS> was *really* funny was that during the winter months most butter
 FS> had a natural very, very light color -- almost white -- so the
 FS> dairy people had to *add* color to butter to give it "butter
 FS> color".  OTOH margarine's "natural" color in the course of
 FS> manufacture is *yellow* ... so the margarine people had to
 FS> *bleach* their product while the butter people were adding color
 FS> to their product.

Now this is before my time. I wasn't aware of anything like that, as I
was barely 5yo by the time the war was over. Even I get educated by your
posts...

 FS> That's long been taken care of, of course, after many people
 FS> started using margarine and got the politicians to correct the
 FS> laws.  Margarine with the color "dot" came out during the 1930s.
 FS> We kids used to actually *like* doing the mixing.  I don't know
 FS> why, though.

Hey, my brother and I used to fight over who got to do that! I don't know
why either. :o)


Roy
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