William Dickens wrote:
>
> Wisconsin used to regulate the color of margarine. The dairy industry wanted to
>reduce the demand for it. From what I've been told there was a time when you bought
>white margarine, but it came with yellow food coloring that you could mix into it if
>you wanted to make your margarine look like butter. - - Bill Dickens
I know from childhood stories that Massachusetts had precisely such a
reg in the 30's.
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their
shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down 'Stupid
things!' on their slates, and she could even make out that
one of them didn't know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he
had to ask his neighbor to tell him."
Lewis Carroll, *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*
