The History of Butter — The Food They Made Illegal to Dye Yellow

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A senator who spent years defending butter… failed a blind taste test and picked margarine.

That bizarre moment is just the ending of a much bigger story: a century-long food war over butter, margarine, politics, smuggling, prison sentences, and laws so absurd they literally forced margarine to be dyed pink.

In this video from Crumb Lore, we trace the full history:
🧈 how butter may have been discovered by accident thousands of years ago
🏺 why ancient Greeks mocked “butter eaters”
🌍 how butter became a symbol of wealth, status, and identity in Europe
⚖️ how margarine triggered panic in the dairy industry
🎨 why governments outlawed the color yellow on food
🚔 how people were jailed for margarine smuggling
🇺🇸 why Wisconsin became the last great holdout
🇨🇦 and how parts of Canada were still fighting this battle shockingly recently

It is one of the strangest true stories in food history, and somehow it all comes back to toast.

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What surprised you most — the pink margarine laws, the smuggling, or the senator who couldn’t tell the difference?

By https://www.youtube.com/@crumb.lore-yt