The pure foods movement of the 1920s helped undermine natural butter and elevate the status of margarine. In 1923 Congress passed a law that made it illegal to add any […]
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Eleanor Roosevelt does TV commercial for margarine
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, appeared in a television commercial for Good Luck brand margarine in 1959. She was paid $35,000 (equivalent to more than a quarter million dollars […]
Busted! Sent to federal prison for coloring margarine
Joseph Wirth (above), his brother Toney Wirth, and Patrick Raidy were each fined $5,000 and sentenced to five-year terms in Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas in 1911 for coloring margarine […]