April 22, 2025
Chewing the Fat with the Brits
Timothy Birdnow
Sales of beef tallow are skyrocketing in the U.K. ostensibly over a campaign by American politicians and others claiming cooking oils are bad for your health.
Sales of Beef Drippings Surge in Britain
Color me suspicious; could it be they are trying to ditch American grown oils and replace it with something they can get on the Continent? Is this part of the "Dump Trump" movement?
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a big advocate for dumping cooking oils.
I remember when they moved to vegetable and seed oils from beef tallow and lard. We were told how bad those were for our health. Now they are moving back to them.
My great grandmother used to cook with lard. She would go out and wring a chicken's neck, pluck it, and fry it up in lard in what seemed like fifteen minutes! (I know; it was longer.) Best fried chicken EVER! Home grown green beans and home grown mashed potatoes whipped with the butter and milk from her cows and with real white chicken gravy and home-made biscuits! I would dream about her food days before we went down to the sticks to visit! She never disappointed! And her coffee was excellent too, along with peach or cherry cobbler, hot and delicious!
Those were the good old days before the killjoys told us lard was killing us and making us obese. Now we are REALLY sick and obese and it looks like the animal fats weren't the culprit after all. Thanks a lot food nazis!
At any rate the E.U. banned many beef products from the U.S. because American farmers use hormones and antibiotics on the cattle, as well as irradiate meat. So they already have the tallow.
And as for oils, the Europeans grow almost no corn since it's too cool and wet for it to be a good crop there. Their growth of soybeans is limited too. It doesn't fare well in European soil. Ditto most of the other oil-bearing crops. So it's generally imported from either Russia or the U.S. and now the Europeans want to break with the U.S. and of course will have nothing to do with Russia. So tallow is their new go-to choice, whether they admit that or not.
Well, if the old food nazis WERE right then the Europeans should start porking out pretty soon. If not we will know we were lied to all these years by our government and their health fascism.
Sales of beef tallow are skyrocketing in the U.K. ostensibly over a campaign by American politicians and others claiming cooking oils are bad for your health.
Sales of Beef Drippings Surge in Britain
Color me suspicious; could it be they are trying to ditch American grown oils and replace it with something they can get on the Continent? Is this part of the "Dump Trump" movement?
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a big advocate for dumping cooking oils.
I remember when they moved to vegetable and seed oils from beef tallow and lard. We were told how bad those were for our health. Now they are moving back to them.
My great grandmother used to cook with lard. She would go out and wring a chicken's neck, pluck it, and fry it up in lard in what seemed like fifteen minutes! (I know; it was longer.) Best fried chicken EVER! Home grown green beans and home grown mashed potatoes whipped with the butter and milk from her cows and with real white chicken gravy and home-made biscuits! I would dream about her food days before we went down to the sticks to visit! She never disappointed! And her coffee was excellent too, along with peach or cherry cobbler, hot and delicious!
Those were the good old days before the killjoys told us lard was killing us and making us obese. Now we are REALLY sick and obese and it looks like the animal fats weren't the culprit after all. Thanks a lot food nazis!
At any rate the E.U. banned many beef products from the U.S. because American farmers use hormones and antibiotics on the cattle, as well as irradiate meat. So they already have the tallow.
And as for oils, the Europeans grow almost no corn since it's too cool and wet for it to be a good crop there. Their growth of soybeans is limited too. It doesn't fare well in European soil. Ditto most of the other oil-bearing crops. So it's generally imported from either Russia or the U.S. and now the Europeans want to break with the U.S. and of course will have nothing to do with Russia. So tallow is their new go-to choice, whether they admit that or not.
Well, if the old food nazis WERE right then the Europeans should start porking out pretty soon. If not we will know we were lied to all these years by our government and their health fascism.
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Talking about using lard instead of seed oils and all that... I'll betcha your great-grandmum wasn't obese, or even near to it, either.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 22, 2025 10:12 PM (QSsdw)
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I remember the ceramic lard jar. Since we butchered our own meat we had huge vats of it. One thing was when popping corn Crisco was far better then lard.
Posted by: Mike at April 22, 2025 11:09 PM (bl/qr)
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You're absolutely right Dana; she was thin as could be. Granted she was a farm woman and worked at a physically-demanding job. Butt she was small - under five feet tall. I don't remember if I told you the story about how she ran the Ku Klux Klan off; they came in the dead of night (and granny lived way out in the sticks) and demanded she turn over the black woman working for her. Grandma pulled out a shotgun, probably bigger than she, and assured them that if they didn't leave immediately they would leave their brains as permanent residents. They left and never came back.
Yeah Mike; my great grandmother butchered her own meat too and had a big tub for the lard. Man that made the food taste good! I truly miss that!
Yeah Mike; my great grandmother butchered her own meat too and had a big tub for the lard. Man that made the food taste good! I truly miss that!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 23, 2025 07:56 AM (DhjQS)
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I remember your telling me that story about her running the KKK off. We need people like her now!
Under five feet tall? She was like my mother! But you didn't mess with those little gals, which may be one reason their husbands married them!
Under five feet tall? She was like my mother! But you didn't mess with those little gals, which may be one reason their husbands married them!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 24, 2025 12:35 AM (pdDZ2)
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Speaking of Crisco, I'm not sure today it's the same stuff it used to be. Years ago I had a friend from Arkansas, now deceased, who used to swear by it for making fried chicken. And he had very low cholesterol. But I checked the stuff not long ago and it's vegetable fats, which, frankly, I don't think is all that healthy. Have they changed the formulation, do you know, Mike?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 25, 2025 11:40 PM (pdDZ2)
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