Lay's Baked Barbecue Flavored Potato Crisps - PN # 2840007189
On Jun 25, 10:32*am, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
> 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.
You're exactly right. The OP is just being obtuse (and a bit silly,
really).
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