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To: Tomato who wrote (470)	2/3/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 577

WHY, I FEEEEEEL LIKE A KING!!! Sir Redfruit, Well, we DO have Imperial margarine up here... The one where a family was sitting around the table at breakfast and as each bites a piece of margarine-laden toast, a big velvety crown appears on his/her head... DING!!! Actually, I like the newer commercial much better... Mom, Dad, and young Son, all dressed like Elvis impersonators, eating toast and Imperial Margarine... And everyone breaking out... WHY THANK YOU, THANK YOU...WHY I FEEEEEEEL LIKE A KING!! as a crown pops onto his/her head out of thin air. BTW, I have the "Elvis line" down pretty good and have created havoc with it quite often since this commercial first started to air.... Now, let's see if I can remember any other margarines... I guess we had OLEO margarine up here in Canajun land... Oh, and VELVEETA processed cheese...YUCK!!! And Country Crock margarine.. and Fleishmann's made only from PURE CORN OIL!!!!... And then there was Blue Bonnet with it's cute little jingle ... "EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH BLUE BONNET ON-IT!!!",... and with a painting of a girl wearing a sort of blue Mennonite hat or something on the carton...Did you have that one there? I remember it in particular because I lived in Quebec for years and at the time, it was illegal to sell coloured margarine there... so margarine was white like vegetable shortening but came with these horrible little plastic packets of colouring which you busted open and mixed with the margarine if you wanted it to be yellow. I believe that Blue Bonnet was the first to come out with this AMAZING INNOVATION of packaging the margarine in plastic baggy things similar to a milk bag.. and which had a chunk of the colouring stuff entombed somewhere in with the margarine in the bag. When you went to use a bag of margarine, you had to sit and knead the thing for hours... Perfectionists might knead away at the bag for a good 20 minutes or so... while slap-happy nincompoops such as myself would give it a few good squishes and call it a day. There was only one major problem with the "bag thing" and that had to do with the chosen mode for dispensing it... really quite a messy affair... And THEN the next "improvement" was to allow coloured margarine, but only if it was a putrid yellowish-orange that looked like some kind of plastic goo...or some other revolting substance. And, as a matter of fact, I believe the "coloured margarine law" is still in effect there because I heard of a store being charged for importation of illegally coloured margarine about a month ago.... Tsk, tsk, tsk... Perhaps the white margarine was one of the reasons behind our move to Ontario in the early '70s... (-: Oh...here's a funny aside to this. We had a cottage in Ontario and used to drive there every weekend... so we always had GOOD margarine at our house...and not that white or ugly orange margarine. Neighbours used to try to entice us to smuggle good margarine back from the rest of Canajun land for them... Hmmmmmm... (-: Guess that's it for my margarine memories right now. Actually, I always was more of a butter person from way back anyhow. BTW... RE: the Preview and spell-checker... Yep, just one more fine blessing from MSFT Explorer I guess... Sorry to say, my Netscape loves it, sir... (-: Croc