I'm fairly confident the majority of people didn't have a dedicated deep fat fryer at home at any point in history. Unless you're actually referring to the sor

I'm fairly confident the majority of people didn't have a dedicated deep fat fryer at home at any point in history. Unless you're actually referring to the sort of deep pot used on the stove for frying. In that case, then absolutely. A deep fat fryer in my mind is a standalone appliance. They definitely fried food in oil and lard rather than delicately avoiding fats. No sense wasting good bacon grease when you can toss some eggs in there. And some bread too. Nothing like toast all sopped up in bacon grease. For anyone saying citizens didn't listen to these experts, they've apparently never seen the magazine rack in the grocery store checkout. Or any of the millions of lifestyle articles and weight loss blogs informing desperate folks to run from anything with butter in it. I don't think my parents had a real stick of butter in the house until after I graduated high school. Low fat everything in that fridge until they saw me lose weight and gain so much more energy by eating low carb and high fat. When you've got teachers in the classroom teaching the food pyramid to elementary kids, you're going to have some kind of impact on the way people eat.