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Like back in the day my grandmother was cooking with lard. Lard from pigs that she kept in her own farm. Later lard also became bad (except bacon which is good.
by hreffob 14y ago
Like back in the day my grandmother was cooking with lard. Lard from pigs that she kept in her own farm. Later lard also became bad (except bacon which is good...). Nowadays lard is coming back and do you know who uses it? Haute cuisine restaurants.
- corin_ 14y agoHaute cuisine isn't really relevant when discussing "bad" food where bad means not good for you, their job is to create tasty food, not necessarily healthy food.
- DanBC 14y agoThey also use lots of other fats, and lots of salt, and lots of sugar. They use it because it's tasty. "Supersize Me" on Haute Cuisine would have similar catastrophic results, but be considerably more expensive.
- ihsw 14y agoNonsense, the problem with McDonalds and other fast food restaurants is that it barely qualifies as food -- it uses as few real ingredients as possible because real ingredients have a short shelf life.
- DanBC 14y agoYou can still cover real food in fat and sugar and salt. Someone eating food bought only from Michelin starred restaurants is going to be in trouble unless they're careful about what they eat.
- astrange 14y agoWhat non-real ingredients do you think they use? Hamburgers are pretty simple. It's not like Kraft selling guacamole made with food coloring instead of avocados.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoI've no idea what mcd.s does, but you can add all sorts of crap to hamburger before it becomes too obvious. Probably a lot of it is not ... so appetizing (the bits you don't want to know you're eating, etc). My mom used to buy hamburger meat that was bulked up with soy protein, mainly because it was cheaper than pure ground meat. [I absolutely loved the taste of that stuff actually, much more than all-meat burgers! Wish I could find it as an adult...]
- ihsw 14y agoThat's because nut and seed based oils don't taste nearly as good as animal fats. Margarine on the other hand is an abomination that isn't fit for consumption.