Stu wrote:

> I agree, people use way too much salt in their diets. I watched the
> food network this morning, and never once saw even one of the cooks
> check what they were cooking before salting/peppering the hell out the
> dish.
> The FDA and Canadian Food inspection agency have been checking
> labeling to find if is said to be in the food is actually in the food.
> They have found many manufacturers' labels are for the most part wrong
> concerning sodium and other ingredient levels, this is why I cut out
> using sodium many years ago.
> Then there's southern cooking and the excess use of butter, but we'll
> leave that for another days discussion.
>
>
> Stu, jumping off the soapbox

Other than Paula Deen on the boobtube, I've not heard or experienced an
excess use of butter in the South. Have you? In what usage or context?
If anything I would have thunk it would be more likely traditionally to
be pork drippings.