Margarine and Sugar (Dessert??)

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I have been listening to “the Great Gildersleeve” on the Archive.Org, it’s an old time radio sitcom and I’m up to 1949.

In the commercial section Birdie the cook is talking to the announcer about the sponsor, which is Parkay Margarine. LeRoy is the nephew of the Great Gildersleeve.

So Birdie says “I like it 'cause it tastes good and LeRoy sure likes his Parkay and Sugar.”

My question is, was this a dessert type thing in 1949? Or was she simply commenting that LeRoy likes two separate things?

If it was some kind of a dessert or food dish, was it just margarine and sugar mixed togehter?

Thanks

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As a kid in the 60s, we would sometimes have margarine (Parky) and sugar on bread (Wonder Bread, of course).

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We’d sprinkle sugar on buttered bread for breakfast. Add cinnamon and call it cinnamon toast.

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My papa loved adding marge and sugar to cold rice. Mash it up real good. Sometimes he’d add milk.

We get our fat and sugar any way we can!

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I would eat bread, butter, and sugar for a snack. It was really good.

I never gave it to my daughter, though. Talk about empty calories!!

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I came in here to say this.

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I put butter and sugar on Cream of Wheat and oatmeal. Margerine (or butter) and sugar would also make a basic cake frosting.

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Put it under the broiler so the butter/sugar/cinnamon bubbled up, then formed a crunchy crust as it cooled – it was actually pretty good, although the amount of heat required to make the topping molten and crunchy was a bit more than Wonderbread was designed to withstand, so the edges of the bread were often blackened to an unpleasant degree.

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This is slightly different, but my (Southern) mother does not hesitate to take a stick of margarine (or, preferably butter), place it on a mid-sized plate and smother it with molasses, mixing the two until the goop is soft and looking like baby-shit. Then onto a biscuit or PLAIN, OFF THE SPOON! :eek: :eek:

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My mom was a farm girl. There was never margarine in our house, but I made cinnamon toast as a kid.

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Thanks for the replies. It makes more sense that it is a spread or a mix to put on or into something. I was thinking poor LeRoy was just mixing some Parkay and sugar and eating it.

I do love how during WWII the Gildersleeve show commercials would advertise Parkay as a great “engery” food. I kept thinking, what a great way to say full of calories. :slight_smile:

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I think my mom often liked to have us eat the kind of stuff she had to eat, growing up during the depression and then during WWII. We had quite a bit of spam, too.

As for cinnamon toast… probably my favorite thing to eat as a kid. Could never get enough on Sunday mornings.

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Confectioner’s sugar, margarine, and a splash of vanilla creamed and shaped in to balls (or pressed in to a plate and cut when hard). That was what my grandma called butter candy when I was growing up. There MAY have been a splash of milk in it.