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  • From: "" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Margarine & lard
  • Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 08:31:52 -0500



Subject : RE: [NAFEX] Margerine & lard

In a message dated 8/4/2006 12:04:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
redherring@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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