"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 12/15/2014 8:58 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "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)
>
> Well, the chicken kiev was certainly a treat but I've never thought of
> butter as being festive. I think that dairy products are not real popular
> in most Asian cultures - probably because the stuff is not too compatible
> withour guts. I do like the tasty and refreshing taste of Calpico though.

Butter isn't festive to me either. I use it every day.

> Calpico is a milk based drink that has been treated to give it a fragrant
> citrous smell. I even use a fermented milk body wash that has the same
> smell. It's milk made pleasant!
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Calpico-Concen.../dp/B005LTIKUW

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