On Friday, December 12, 2014 6:38:30 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "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:
> >
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >> All through my childhood my mother used margarine because it was less
> >> costly.
> >
> > My mother totally bought into the healthier thing, but knowing her,
> > the cheaper thing was a big factor, too. Not knocking her, just
> > saying.
>
> Cheapness was a big factor in those days, and sometimes in these too.

Lack of money was a factor too. OTOH, I guess you could say that my mom was cheap. we didn't have no stinkin' butter or fancy foods. My room and our house was pretty sparse - it was sorta like a monastery. The local style here was the wife controls the household money and she was socking a lot of it away in savings bonds. These days, I wish that I could live in a household like that once again.

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