5) Margarine

Before people couldn’t believe it wasn’t butter, dairy farmers couldn’t believe they had competition. Intense lobbying from the dairy industry led to some crazy laws about how margarine could be sold. Margarine used to come either white with food coloring that was added later or in some areas it was legally required to be colored bright pink!

Via/ Internet Archive

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