It’s your childhood, would you rather have something cooked in real butter, bacon grease, or deep fried?

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Tiovivo1@reddit

Bacon grease. My parents were margarine people. They loved that “I can’t believe it’s not butter” to be healthy which was weird because mom would use about a quart of oil to fry an egg lol.

My grandparents used the real butter. Yum

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TheFilthyMob@reddit

My wife and I still do. I purposely purchase untrimmed briskets just for the tollow, render it down and use later. Why buy shit that kills you. Seed oil is the devil.

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Abject-Kitchen3198@reddit

Also melted on a freshly baked warm bread, with salt and ground paprika on top.

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my_loser_name7@reddit

A yeast donut fried in lard, nothing better

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Fulghn@reddit

Yes

The only thing I use spreadable non-butter for is making sandwiches, fried in a pan so put down any illusion of healthiness.

Bacon grease gets saved for cooking other things, especially clam chowder.

Deep frying happens on a regular basis. I specifically modified my grill so I can deep fry outdoors.

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BmanGorilla@reddit

I like it! I have an old school Fry Daddy that I just plug in next to the grill and set it on top of the side burner cover.

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

My parents always bought Country Crock. Definitely a crock of not butter

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bird9066@reddit

Well, I grew up on margarine. Sometimes I still cook a cheap bone in pork chop to absolute death in the cast iron. Walk around holding it by the bone like a savage, lol

But I use butter now. So I guess I'll stick with butter. Because it's not margarine.

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Abject-Kitchen3198@reddit

The margarine apparently returned as a not so unhealthy choice with updates to manufacturing process. I haven't tried cooking, but I'm using it once in a while for toast and stuff.

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bird9066@reddit

Interesting. I'm not against any fat and "processed" isn't necessarily a dirty word. Lard and crisco has its place so I imagine margarine might fit a niche too.

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out.

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Geechie-Don@reddit

Was? You better try IS! And I use butter, beef tallow and bacon grease often. No metabolic issues and still muscular at 48. Seed oils are the devil…

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BmanGorilla@reddit

I'm pretty sure that cooking things in butter or bacon fat is not unhealthy. These weird ass over-processed foods thrust upon us are unhealthy.

Gen X? Grew up with margarine. Yuck.

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

My grandmother cooked everything in lard. Lard biscuits are the best kind of biscuits.

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ItsCatCat@reddit

Gen X woman here. What is butter? My Boomer mom was too worried about counting grams of fat in our diets that I think I main fat splurge was a spritz of Pam in the pan.

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Childhood... Butter out of the question then, apparently it's unhealthy. So the choice is the usual transfat margerine for things like meat balls or eggs, beef fat or sun flour oil for deepfrying fries at home, or transfat in the cafetaria. Bacon grease? What is that? Never heard of. I'll go for deepfried in beef fat.

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MrsNuggs@reddit

I would like butter, deep fried in bacon grease, please.

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Lurchie_@reddit

These are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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acreekofsoap@reddit

Yes

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Big_Grapefruit_5708@reddit

Deep fried

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Ashby238@reddit

Bacon grease from the jelly glass in the fridge door of course!

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Witty_Ad4494@reddit

All the above!

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elderbuttturtle@reddit

Yes

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assuredlyanxious@reddit

The only answer.

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MasterClown@reddit

Butter, with a side of bacon grease. Tallow for dessert.

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

Was? You say that like I don't cook eggs with real butter almost every morning. I don't deep fry at home and bacon grease doesn't work as well on my cast iron pans. My 15yo cooks the same way... not because it's unhealthy but because it works.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Butter

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Ancient-Sink5239@reddit

My grandmas were war brides. There was no butter. They used oleo, crisco, Wesson oil, bacon grease and/or fatback. I don’t think I had real butter until the 90’s.

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Barbarella_ella@reddit

My Italian granny saved not only bacon grease but grease from cooking other stuff. She fried chicken in old grease.

Finnish granny used butter for everything.

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SXTY82@reddit

Why do you specify childhood? I still eat tasty food today.

9/10 is butter. Occasionally bacon grease if I have a clean bit saved. I used to deep fry now and then but it is too wasteful for a single person to bother with.

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SacredC0w@reddit

By the time I was born, my dad was already diagnosed with coronary artery disease so my mom went by the conventional wisdom of the time and severely limited any sources of fats. Butter, oils, greases, fats, beef, etc... were taboo in our house, so I only got such things when I was at a friend's house.

Butter, though. The first time I tasted real butter (and not freakin' Parkay Margerine) I was hooked.

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smithe68@reddit

Real butter

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BuckyGoldman@reddit

A stick of butter battered and deep fried in bacon grease.

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zornmagron@reddit

My father was an old German man who would make us homemade potato pancakes cooked in lard the for the first serving. The leftovers the next day were fried in bacon grease. I cannot not tell you how much I loved the second day refried potato pancakes.. miss you dad

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