: > : >For those of us who were kids during the war, margarine was the standard : >and butter, rarely available in local markets, the exception. I have : >contemporaries who, having grown up on margarine, actually find the flavor : >of real butter off-putting, and swear by Parkay and Bluebonnet. : > : Ah, Parkay and Bluebonnet! : : I love butter, but during WWII, I begged to be the one to : knead the color into the white blob of margarine. : : And, then, although we ran a dairy farm, we couldn't really : afford butter, so we lived on Parkay and Bluebonnet. : : I'll have to buy some of each to see if I've really been : missing anything in all these years of eating butter!