On 9/1/2012 7:04 AM, gtr wrote:
> On 2012-08-31, dsi1 > wrote:
>
>> Why would that be? Do most Indians, even the poor ones, own cows? My
>> guess is that even if you did own a cow, vegetable oil would be cheaper
>> and easier to get.
>
> Probably so, but I think part of it may be how long it will keep without
> a consistently operative form of refridgeration and with sometimes
> significantly hot weather. I don't know, but am assuming such things
> reconcile distinctions we think of purely as cost.
>

Ghee's ability to keep was probably important before there was
refrigeration - probably not so important these days. OTOH, maybe a lot
of the poor folks don't have refrigeration. Beats me. OTOH, I can't
imagine that ghee has much of an advantage over plain old vegetable oil.