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Default Shortening versus Butter in Homemade Biscuits

In article >,
Serene Vannoy > wrote:

> Damaeus wrote:
> > Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
> > Serene Vannoy > posted:
> >
> >> Damaeus wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's like caviar. I dunno... the whole idea of eating caviar is as
> >>> disgusting as eating something like haggis. I have long suspected that
> >>> maybe caviar is like a running joke with the affluent and wealthy. Perhaps
> >>> they don't eat caviar, themselves, but they serve it to all their poor
> >>> friends who come around and think they're living the high life by eating
> >>> fish roe. Then they sit back and laugh as these poor people think they're
> >>> living the high life by eating something that's nasty, but won't kill
> >>> them.
> >> Eh. I've never made more than $25,000 a year, and I love caviar.

> >
> > I'm not curious enough to put it in my mouth, especially since it looks
> > just like some stuff I saw at a fishing tackle supply shop on the bottom
> > shelf. Wouldn't it be interesting to discover that caviar is the same
> > stuff sold to put in your tackle box? They just call the fishing tackle
> > "caviar" and mark the price up 500,000%.

>
> Whatever. There are lots of foods I don't like the looks of, but I don't
> feel a need to behave as though those who do like them are eating crap.
> If you haven't even tasted it, perhaps you're not the best judge of
> how good it is.


Ditto haggis. Still, I suppose that's more for me.

Miche

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