"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "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.
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> 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!

That's just not true!