Wilson wrote:
> Doug Freyburger posted this:
>
>> You expect a food that's clearly fried in fat to automatically be fried
>> in vegitarian or vegan fat? Given centuries long tradition of using
>> pork fat, duck fat, butter fat and so on at the best fats for frying I
>> find this a bizzare expectation.
>
> Yes. Doug, I guess I have to wonder where you are from because this was
> settled back in 1990 when McD's stopped using animal fat to fry their fries
> and said they would be using only veg. oil from then on.

Ah, different time perspectives. To me 1990, to you last week on
Sunday, based on how non-recent you seem to think 1990 was. The 1990s
have not yet made the recent events pages for most topics other than
the hard sciences that I tend to be interested in.

There's a place in the metro area that offers fried cooked in duck fat
on their Friday menu. It would never occur to me that they might use
vegitarian or vegan oils on other days.

That and you seem to pay more attention to McDonalds than I do. To me
they're some company with a big data center not too far away but as a
source for food information, not so much.

You also appear to have a very different attitude about food than I do.
I expect folks interested in minority issues to have the movitation to
check labels (I check for wheat) and eating meat is and always has been
a majority issue in western civilization going back farther than the
roots of classical western civilization.