"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Friday, December 12, 2014 6:38:30 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > 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.

Butter was a treat when I was growing up too.

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