Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 22, 2014

What a lucky sailing son of a gun Priest was. As for 19th-century pink margarine, no way you’d think of it to be kamaboko (which is something like Japanese fish cake).

Back in the late 50’s when we were living in the Michigan’s UP Cedar swamps and on welfare we got real butter in the surplus once a month. It was white and it had little things of yellow coloring to mix with it to make it look like butter.

During WWII and after, margarine was sold white, with a color pellet to make it yellow. Also – for many years, margarine was illegal in Wisconsin.

During WW2 we got white margarine with little packets of yellow dye. It was illegal to sell yellow margarine. We mixed it with our hands.

Marv, that’s funny about the white butter with coloring. In the winter our cow produced white to light yellow butter.

Commodoties are still being bought and stored in government warehouses. But Congress refuses to appropriate money to distrubute them to poor folk.

My aunt went on long shopping trips to Quebec to get butter coloured margarine and bring it back to Ontario. Now the stuff kills you. We just use straight ordinary butter now.

Then there was Violet Jessup, who worked on all three sister ships, Titanic, Britannic and Olympic.

The coccyx bone is where our tails used to be, manycenturies ago. YES, we had tails!!

A woman’s coccyx can break when she gives birth (vaginally, as opposed to C-section, that is).

So, there’s no demand for “margarine milk,” since margarine doesn’t taste good enough for such milk. Yellow coloring? If that coloring was turmeric, it would increase the nutritional value of the margarine.

I’ll have to ask mom(92 years of age) why she foisted “Oleo” margarine on us in the late 1950’s and 1960’s..Never forgave her for that..just a bad…bad…memory..

My daughter has had 2 children via c-section and this 3rd will be by c-section. Her pelvis is not wide enough for her to give birth naturally.

Is John Priest related to Groo??

It’s not nice to fool mother nature!