On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:00:06 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> ravenlynne > wrote:
>
>> > 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.

Actually olive oil contains more fat calories per equal volume than
butter, butter is only about 90% fat... the rest is water and milk
solids.

>> 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.
>
>I've run into more than one person that does not classify vegetable oils
>as "fats". ;-)

yeah, the vegetarian morons who think chicken and fish are turnips.

>It's a matter of ignorance, not just semantics...

100% ignorance, no semantics whatsoever.