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

For me it was a treat)
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