How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food

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Post by pseudolus » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food
smithsonianmag.com

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Post by open-source-ux » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

If you want to find out much more about the history of Crisco and its modern-day incarnation, here is an excellent and informative 10 min video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IH8-io6Dw

As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US.

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Post by asdf21 » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 4:36 PM UTC

Pretty amazing this entire article never mentions trans fats.. which cause approx 500,000 premature deaths worldwide each year.

For decades, Original Crisco had four grams of trans fat per tablespoon.

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Post by aiphex » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 4:51 PM UTC

asdf21 wrote: post #3

Pretty amazing this entire article never mentions trans fats.. which cause approx 500,000 premature deaths worldwide each year. For decades, Original Crisco had four grams of trans fat per tablespoon.

That's a stunning number.

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Post by wirrbel » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

open-source-ux wrote: post #2

If you want to find out much more about the history of Crisco and its modern-day incarnation, here is an excellent and informative 10 min video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IH8-io6Dw As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US.

My mother (and thus me because I learned to cook from her) always used clarified butter (butterschmalz, or ghee if you source it from Indian stores). Once learning about the history of seed oils I am quite happy I stuck to this.

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Post by dfxm12 » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

open-source-ux wrote: post #2

If you want to find out much more about the history of Crisco and its modern-day incarnation, here is an excellent and informative 10 min video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IH8-io6Dw As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US.

As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US.

Yeah, after looking up many Spanish Christmas cookie recipes, I was surprised that almost all of them use lard. I have too many vegetarian friends for lard to be an option for me. I generally sub butter for lard, but maybe I'll make a private batch of polvorones with lard for myself some time to see if there's a difference in taste.

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Post by stevehawk » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

dfxm12 wrote: post #6

open-source-ux wrote: post #2

If you want to find out much more about the history of Crisco and its modern-day incarnation, here is an excellent and informative 10 min video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IH8-io6Dw As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US.

As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US. Yeah, after looking up many Spanish Christmas cookie recipes, I was surprised that almost all of them use lard. I have too many vegetarian friends for lard to be an option for me. I generally sub butter for lard, but maybe I'll make a private batch of polvorones with lard for myself some time to see if ther…

i'm confused as to why polvorones was italicized

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Post by squish78 » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

The agro-industrial complex in general convinced Americans to buy trademark branded products instead of real food

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Post by bluedino » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

stevehawk wrote: post #7

dfxm12 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US. Yeah, after looking up many Spanish Christmas cookie recipes, I was surprised that almost all of them use lard. I have too many vegetarian friends for lard to be an option for me. I generally sub butter for lard, but maybe I'll make a private batch of polvorones with lard for myself some time to see if ther…

i'm confused as to why polvorones was italicized

It's common in many styles to italicize non-English words

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Post by geofft » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

stevehawk wrote: post #7

dfxm12 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell Crisco, while popular in the US, doesn't appear to be widespread or common outside the US. Yeah, after looking up many Spanish Christmas cookie recipes, I was surprised that almost all of them use lard. I have too many vegetarian friends for lard to be an option for me. I generally sub butter for lard, but maybe I'll make a private batch of polvorones with lard for myself some time to see if ther…

i'm confused as to why polvorones was italicized

Many style guides say you should italicize foreign words that haven't been adopted as loanwords. https://style.mla.org/styling-foreign-terms/