On 2021-03-28 11:20 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 3/28/2021 10:55 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> I think we've all managed to watch documentaries about food history and
> what was considered good and bad for us at one time or another.
>
> I remember my mother being told in the mid 1980's not to eat eggs
> because of cholesterol.Â* It was later proved eggs didn't really have
> anything to do with it.

They probably considered the diets of the people who had heart issues
and linked their diets and egg consumption to their coronary problems.
It may have been more about the number of calories from all the fats
and salt in their diet. People who are eggs usually had bacon or sausage
with it, both high in salt and fat.
>
> Mom bought margarine not because it was allegedly better healthwise but
> because it was less expensive.Â* When I was growing up we only got butter
> at holiday dinners.Â* Thanksgiving, Christmas.Â* She'd inevitably forget
> to set the timer and burn the dinner rolls but hey, we got real butter! LOL
>

My mother tried to foist margarine on us because it was cheaper than
butter. My father was a country boy, used to fresh home made bread and
churned butter and margarine was a major fail for him. Butter made a
quick return.

Margarine was pretty bad back on the 50s. It was even less appetizing
because, thanks to the dairy lobby, it could not be the same colour as
butter. It was white and came with a little dye pack and you had to add
it and mix it in colour the stuff yellow.