[NAFEX] Margarine & lard

Lucky.Pittman at murraystate.edu Lucky.Pittman at murraystate.edu
Sat Aug 5 09:31:52 EDT 2006



Subject : RE: [NAFEX] Margerine & lard

 In a message dated 8/4/2006 12:04:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
redherring at tnaccess.com writes:

> As someone who has always craved fatty foods, I never fell for the "Fat is 
> bad for you" BS.  Seeing as it turns out that margerine actually contributes 
> to heart
> disease, I feel vindicated.    

We've not used margarine in 20 years, though my mom and other family members still do - I just can't convince 'em to change.  Being veterinarians, we felt it necessary, from a moral standpoint, to support our clients, so we chose to use butter(and later, lard) - and I always felt that the whole 'butter is bad' thing was way off track, anyway - from a pure caloric standpoint, an ounce of butter and an ounce of margarine both contain essentially the same number of calories.  Now that the trans-fats fiasco has been revealed, I too feel vindicated.

Sad to say, but I grew up on canned biscuits - those god-awful things in the explosive tubes.  But, when I started making my own biscuits 15 years or so ago, I found that they were ever so much better, when made with lard and butter.

Bacon grease?  Nectar of the Gods.  LOL! 
I can hardly keep it on hand, and with 4 teenage kids, when we cook bacon, it's usually 2 lbs at a whack.

Lucky





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