On Jul 30, 3:57 pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> "Default User" > wrote in message
>
> ...> merryb wrote:
>
> >> > Anyone who posts a recipe calling for Crisco or Bisquick in 2007 is
> >> > lazy or stupid. Period. Anyone is welcome to killfilter me.
>
> >> > --Bryan
>
> >> I totally agree with you- shortening has it's place in some things,
> >> but not in biscuits.
>
> > Then you aren't agreeing with him. He thinks it's poison and should not
> > be used at all.
>
> Reminds me of the kneejerk alarmists who denied their children eggs before
> it was understood that a good percentage of one's serum cholesterol is
> produced by the body regardless of diet.

Except that there were plenty of defenders of eggs*. No one other
than ignorant folks defend hydrogenated fats. "...the NAS [Natl.
Academy of Sciences] has concluded there is no safe level of trans fat
consumption."
source-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat
>
> Or the people who raised kids so afraid of touching saturated fat that they
> never had cheese or dairy products.

Those people are still out there. People give their small children
skim milk.
I want my child to LIKE milk, and to ask for it, even though there is
diet soda in the fridge as well. I can't see myself having ever
preferring skim milk to any other beverage, whereas whole milk is just
the opposite. I limit it because of calories, but if I didn't care
about being overweight, I'd drink it like my wife (who is very thin)
does, 3 or 4 gallons a week.

* Robert Atkins for one

--Bryan