On 15/12/2014 4:40 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "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
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>>> > On 12/11/2014 6:43 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> >> On 12/11/2014 6:23 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> >>> 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.
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>> 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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> Butter was a treat when I was growing up too.
>
Not in our house! As poor as we were, Mum wouldn't dream of using
anything but butter. My grandmother, who was well off, never bought
"shop" butter. She insisted on getting it from local dairy farmers who
still went to the trouble of making it.
Graham