On May 8, 10:30*pm, wrote:
> On Fri, 08 May 2009 20:18:29 -0700, Lin >
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> >> You know I'm getting fed up with you two pompous asses, when are you
> >> ever going to grow up. If you'd use that pea brain god gave you,
> >> eventually you'd figure it out that olive oil could be substituted.
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> >Now, don't jump my ass about this, but shortening does not substitute
> >for olive oil. Shortening solidifies when it cools. Olive oil does not.
> >Olive oil has a flavor -- if you have to use oil or fat to fry hamburger
> >meat, use a vegetable or canola oil (if you can stand the stuff).
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> >That being said, your recipe calls for 3 lbs. of ground beef. I have
> >NEVER in my whole entire life fried up fatty HB meat in oil or another
> >fat. Not even 93-97% lean HB meat. HB meat has enough fat on it's own,
> >and then you drain the fat off. Besides, any crispiness you may be
> >trying to impart will be lost when it simmers in the sauce for the ages
> >that you advise.
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> >Your nutritional analysis will vastly improve if you drop the extra
> >shortening.
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> >I'm sure your way tastes pretty good, but *I* don't need the extra and
> >unnecessary fat grams, TYVM.
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> >--Lin (not being snippy, just an observation)
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> It's ok Lin, I just just annoyed at the two bozos. *This was a family
> recipe of my Mums, she used shortening ... it's the way it was done in
> the 50's and 60's
My mother painted the walls with lead paint in the 50s and 60s. Do
you think that I should advise folks in a remodeling NG to do the same
in 2009? My mother used Crisco to fry chicken back then too. These
days, no one with any brains would do that.
You might also want to review the rules for the use of the apostrophe:
http://tribes.tribe.net/46a067ff-425...a-1866e22d3ded
You omitted the apostrophe in Mum's (possessive, the recipe *belonged*
to your mum). Also, since you said, "*my* mum, you shouldn't
capitalize mum. Then there's the "50's and 60's" thing. Since the
decades were not being used in the possessive sense, they should not
have had an apostrophe in that position, though it is acceptable to
write, '50s and '60s, where the apostrophe represents a 19.
If I had the writing skills of Jethro Bodeen, I think I'd shy away
from accusing others of having a "pea brain."
--Bryan