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...energy reserve. It's no accident that fat adds taste to food; evolution reinforces the body's urge to eat the things it needs to survive. In peasant villages, people instinctively gain weight in the summer and burn it off in the winter. Laboratory animals will eat Crisco right...
...yuppies who pioneered the food revolution. At first, old food fogeys like myself mocked them for their balsamic vinegar and sun-dried tomatoes, but secretly we hid our Hamburger Helper in the back of the cupboard and dumped the Crisco out. In dizzying succession, the yuppies hit us with the jicama, the kiwi, the leek and the miniature eggplant. By the end of the 1980s, thanks to their heroic efforts, every Midwestern town sported a fern- filled "Maude's" or "Davio's" offering white chocolate mousse and blackened fish. For those who could afford to eat fashionably, dinner replaced...
...trout, which could not be used in salmon plants was given to workers who would, "take the Crisco used to lubricate the machines and fry the fish. We'd kill them, cut them up and eat them. They tasted amazing." Sometimes, David admits, workers would steal salmon too--sticking them into the spaces left by oversized boots...
...group explained the use of condoms in the prevention of the spread of AIDS, the Mission Hill children nodded knowingly. A question about lubricant was answered unabashedly by a sixth-grader who cautioned his peers not to use oil based substances "like Crisco or Vaseline...
...idea literally exploded out of my head. A comic strip called The Collective Intelligence of Crisco. Yeah. It would be a strip revolving around a twisted love triangle of the sentient, sexy vat of vegetable shortening, named Cris, a sensitive stick of Mazola margerine and the lovely Florence Henderson, Wesson oil spokesmodel. In addition to working through their various affairs of the heart, they would spend every free moment tirelessly fighting to free the world of lard...