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Default Do you eat the fat?

"James" > wrote:

> After stocking up on $1.29 point cut corned beef brisket, I found
> another store that had them on sale for $.99/lb. So now I got enough
> till next year.
>
> Slow cooked the fat part is sooooooooo good tasting. It's even worth
> killing myself a little by eating it. With the extra high salt and
> fat I wonder how many minutes of my life I'm giving up to eat a
> serving.


Funny, my wife and I were just talking about this sort of thing
vis-a-vis smoking. How people seem to like it so much that they are
willing to kill themselves a little bit to have it.

I found myself thinking about Dave Ramsey's comments about adults
knowing how to delay gratification...