On Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 12:06:13 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:38:53 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 6:40:32 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, May 1, 1996 at 4:30:00 PM UTC+9:30, Marilyn Bolton wrote:
> >> > I live in Canada and wish to make the Australian recipe "Chocolate
> >> > Crackles" which calls for copha - a hard fat made from coconut I think.
> >> > Does anyone have an idea for a substitution? Crisco works, but tastes
> >> > awful in this recipe. Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Marilyn
> >>
> >> Seems people are still looking this up and replying to it :-) as i was looking for a substitute for copha, and i live in australia.
> >>
> >> Copha is very bad for you, i remember the stuff in the 70's an 80's as a kid.
> >> just this Christmas i made a bunch of white Christmas crackles.
> >> after making them i read the label "horror" "Hydrogenated coconut oil"
> >> it is essentially a block of pure trans fat because of the hydrogenation.
> >
> >It didn't kill you when you were a kid nor did you die this Christmas. What the heck are you complaining about?
>
> Maybe she'd like to grow old. Cigarettes don't kill you on the spot
> either.

If you're saying that one could easily die by eating that stuff every day for decades, I won't disagree. My recommendation is that people should not follow this practice.