"Ophelia" wrote:

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>"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>> On 12/11/2014 6:43 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2014 6:23 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> I have always used butter in many things, and always in mashed potato
>>>> I have never believed the stories about it when they were trying to make
>>>> us buy pretendy butter instead. Nothing beats the real thing
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>>> All through my childhood my mother used margarine because it was less
>>> costly.
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>> My mother totally bought into the healthier thing, but knowing her,
>> the cheaper thing was a big factor, too. Not knocking her, just
>> saying.
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>Cheapness was a big factor in those days, and sometimes in these too.

It's also regional... in Italy no one uses butter or margerine, they
use lard and olive oil... in the US deep south bacon greeze rulz!