13. It’s not better with Blue Bonnet on it in Wisconsin
In 1925 the State of Wisconsin, known for its dairy industry, passed a law which made the sale, possession, or use of margarine in the state illegal. It was partially rescinded in 1967, but state-operated hospitals, asylums, prisons, and other institutions still make the serving of butter rather than margarine mandatory, except for medical reasons. It remained and still remains illegal to serve margarine rather than butter in restaurants unless the customer either requested the former or was informed of the use of the product which a former Wisconsin governor called the “yellow stick from Satan himself”. Obviously, Wisconsin intended to protect its dairy industry.
Wauwatosa Wisconsin has a strange regulation that when pondered gives pause. The public library, which in virtually every community in America is one of its most valuable institutions, like all libraries frowns on late return of borrowed materials. The Wauwatosa library requires those holding materials past their return date to turn in their library card until such time as the materials in question are returned. Why trading the library card for an extended possession of the borrowed materials is the preferred manner of dealing with a problem all libraries deal with is unexplained.
