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I do think actual potatoes fried in butter would be healthier than whatever comes out of a bag of Lays today.

• HelloMcFly 3y ago
  Ruffles and Lays potato chips are just potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt. I think it's debatable whether butter or sunflower oil are healthier, but the environmental impact of butter is certainly worse.
• hombre_fatal 3y ago
  I'd like to see the evidence for that. Given the evidence we have against saturated fat, I would expect better health outcomes for people fed potato chips fried in vegetable oil over butter. Every time we swap saturated fat with unsaturated fat, even in metabolic ward studies, we see better outcomes. When I see someone saying that butter is somehow better, I like to see what evidence they've used to reach the inference despite all the evidence against that position. Unfortunately the position usually just cashes out into "but I like butter".