On Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:29:01p, Kswck told us...

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> "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.

Almost everyone was told that at some time or other.

I use butter at home, but I also use a canola-oil margarine that is neither
hydrgenated nor has transfats.



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Wayne Boatwright
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42! Is that all you've got to show for
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