> Omelet wrote:
>>> > wrote:
>>
>>>> I prefer mashed potatoes over baked. I just white pepper and garlic and
>>>> rosemary powder them, then drizzle with olive oil, to cut down on fat
>>>> calories that added butter would add. AND mashed potatoes are more fork
>>>> friendly than baked, imho.
>>
>> Olive oil is still a fat...
>> You've not cut the "fat calories" one bit by substituting it for butter.
>


There's different types of fat involved...butter is a saturated,
unhealthy fat. Olive oil is not. Perhaps the statement could have been
"I'm cutting down unhealthy fat calories" but it's semantics.

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