Weirdest Laws In Delaware

Here's a law that truly deserves a spread. Delaware restaurant owners are strictly prohibited from serving "oleomargarine," which legislators deemed "applicable to the food product known as 'margarine'" to guests in their establishments without their knowledge. According to Find Law, Delaware Code Title 16 elaborately expresses Delaware's disdain for the oleaginous substance we have come to know as margarine and the penalties it carries if not properly served or sold.

Legislators painstakingly went to the trouble of making this distinction that margarine, be it creamy, yellow, or white, is absolutely not butter. Retailers who dare sell the abhorrent substance are legally required to display "a placard with the word 'oleomargarine' in plain uncondensed gothic letters not less than 1 inch high."

This all seems extremely silly until you learn that failure to comply can result in a year-long prison sentence (via Schwartz and Schwartz).

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