Has anyone made Nanaimo Bars? I'm going to make some for the first time. Looking for tips.

maybe that was euphanism for oleo since

about 50 years ago that's what the poor recovering from WWII euros were eating and glad of it.

 
Would oleo be what we called margarine? That's about all my mom used. Yuck

There are an amazing number of different words on each side of this border. We used to call French fries ... chips........ just like the bagged ones. A candy bar here is a chocolate bar. Franks are wieners. Pop used to be soft drinks but I think it's now pop here too. Jelly, that you buy in jars for toast, is jam here, unless it's a pure jelled spread, then it's jelly.

I hated margarine. It created my biggest desire to eat at a friend's house. And we really weren't poor, it was just common then and my mom was way too thrifty.

 
Hi Michael - I've tried the mint ones, and although they are "authentic",

they're very good. SWEET, but good.

 
My mom was thrifty too--she served us margarine but had a stick of butter hidden away for my dad,

who wouldn't eat margarine. Guess which one of her kids was the first to find the real butter and sneak it often?

 
Heck, I think it was the mid 60's before we could buy ...(more)

fresh mushrooms at the grocery store. In little ol' Nanaimo, we wouldn't have known what Euro butter was if it walked up and slapped us in the face.

 
Mom my talks about during the war when oleo/margarine came out..

.. I guess it was invented during the war when butter was rationed. My mom said it was actually white but came with a packet of yellow dye that you would knead into the margarine to make it look like butter.

 
That's true, and it was most likely lard and not vegetable shortening. It was only later

that the advertisers claimed the health benefits of margarine because it was made from unsaturated vegetable fat, not acknowledging that the fat was hydrogenated to saturate it, making it very unhealthy.

 
Fresh mushrooms probably weren't available anywhere. Jacques Pepin mentioned shopping in NYC

when he first arrived here 50 years ago and asking where the mushrooms were. He was sent to aisle 5. I wish I could remember when I first bought fresh mushrooms.

 
I remember that stuff as tasting nasty. I think the reason the yellow dye was separate had something

to do with the dairy industry. They were fighting the competition and didn't want it to look like butter. However, the homemade butter we had was more white than yellow.

 
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