On Monday, December 15, 2014 1:41:49 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.

I didn't consider it much of a treat. We thought it was unhealthy back in those days. The only time I used butter, as I recall, was when I made chicken kiev.

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