SC - re: Border Wars in Ansteorra

Fri Dec 1 07:15:53 PST 2000

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In a message dated 12/1/00 12:05:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

> The reason this type of food became
> widely available, at least in England, was that the invention of
> cheap vegetable oils meant they could afford it. It was a cheap food
> that could be gotten off the streets in a time of packed tenement
> blocks with little in the way of kitchens.
> 
> 

I don't know whether or not the fish and chip shops had started using 
vegetable oil or not, but, I remember that until the late sixties or so, we 
always made our chips at home in lard (and in a really small kitchen) as did 
most people I knew, and we ate chips regularly at home. 

It wasn't until the "health conscious - low fat" ads started coming out on 
the TV that we thought we probably should switch to something "more healthy" 
and started using vegetable oil.  The other thing we used to fry with was 
beef dripping, which was available by the pound from the grocery and butcher 
shops.   

I don't even remember any vegetable oil products being used in our house 
before the late 60's with the exception of Margarine, and that was only 
because my father didn't like butter. 

Elysant

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<HTML>In a message dated 12/1/00 12:05:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, stefan at texas.net writes:
 
 
 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The reason this type of food became
 widely available, at least in England, was that the invention of
 cheap vegetable oils meant they could afford it. It was a cheap food
 that could be gotten off the streets in a time of packed tenement
 blocks with little in the way of kitchens.
 
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 I don't know whether or not the fish and chip shops had started using vegetable oil or not, but, I remember that until the late sixties or so, we always made our chips at home in lard (and in a really small kitchen) as did most people I knew, and we ate chips regularly at home. 
 
 It wasn't until the "health conscious - low fat" ads started coming out on the TV that we thought we probably should switch to something "more healthy" and started using vegetable oil.  The other thing we used to fry with was beef dripping, which was available by the pound from the grocery and butcher shops.   
 
 I don't even remember any vegetable oil products being used in our house before the late 60's with the exception of Margarine, and that was only because my father didn't like butter. 
  
 Elysant</HTML>

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