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From: chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Lard
Message-ID: <121@minnie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 23:48:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 23:48:21 1985
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Reply-To: chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad)
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Cheers!  Lard may not be good for you but it's not much worse
than the hydrogentaed vegetable oils used in most margarines.

Pie crusts, at least meat pie types, are superior with lard.  And
as another person said, refried beans are not refried beans without
lard.  To my taste, much Mexican food does not taste as good unless
lard is used.

And lastly, yes, butter is most certainly animal fat.  Tell us all
how you no longer use milk or cream or butter or ice cream and I will
then applaud your effort to refrain from eating animal fat.

As an aside, if you are a meat eater, your meat would be rather tasteless
without that disgusting fat, since much of the aroma and flavor is derived
from fat soluble elements (I forget the terms).  In addition, there are
a number of fat soluble vitamins for which you would have to take supplements
if you abstained from all fat in your diet.

As can be said about many dietary items, in moderation they are fine, healthy
and necessary, but in excess become killers.

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	Chris Grevstad
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