Transsubstantiation
New York banned trans fats. I was telling my friend Dan that I thought this was cool. He said, “Hey, aren’t you the guy who said that when someone is in favor of banning something, it always turns out that he is secretly doing that thing himself?” Presumably I said this as the Foley scandal was breaking.
I said something like, “Yeah, but that only applies to other people.”
Tonight while I was making dinner, the large tub of Kroger vegetable shortening on top of the fridge seemed to be staring at me.
Comment by Laurel
Lard has no trans fats, so I didn’t think you’d have this dirty secret :)
Posted on December 7, 2006 at 8:03 am
Comment by ctate
I thought you’d switched to using Crisco’s new zero-trans-fat shortening. What’s with the Kroger tub?
(“Zero trans fats” really means “almost but not quite one gram per serving,” doesn’t it?)
Posted on December 7, 2006 at 8:41 am
Comment by mamster
ctate, they were out, and I had emergency donuts to make. And I was getting low on lard. In fact, I have no leaf lard in the house at the moment at all. I need to check in with Samish Bay Cheese; they said they were slaughtering a pig this month.
Posted on December 7, 2006 at 8:47 am
Comment by Jason Truesdell
If you clarify butter and let it cool to a solid again, you can use that instead of Crisco and it actually tastes good, which can’t necessarily be said of Crisco.
Posted on December 12, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Comment by mamster
Jason, I always substitute lard for Crisco, except that I happened to be low on lard due to bad planning.
Posted on December 12, 2006 at 7:52 pm