"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "Nancy Young" > wrote
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>> Let's face it, they did what they had to do to feed the family.
>> In the end, that's what matters.
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> Yep. My mother's mother served some type of potatoes most nights
> as a main dish, since meat was scarce. Mom talked about the horrors
> of oleo, the big white tub of lard with the yellow coloring to mix in. She
> had to have real butter as a result, all her life. And she hoarded and hid
> sweets. Of course, that may also be because my oldest sister hoovered
> up everything.
>

I may get chewed up for this, but I remember being told that Oleo was 'more
healthy' than butter. And butter would clog up you arteries and cause heart
attacks.
I never saw actual butter till I started cooking for myself. Since
then...butter only.