I was finally settling into my “Comfy Chair” ready for a much deserved opportunity to study my eyelids, and I heard my wife call out; “Joel, get up! You have to go to town, we are out of butter!” I replied; “Out of butter, how? Why? Oh no!” She said;”You used a whole stick of butter on your popcorn last night and the rest on your toast this morning!” I thought to myself, how could this happen? Butter is a staple and you can freeze it! How could we be out of butter? Doctor conspiracy I’d bet on it! According to Wikipedia, butter is 80% milk fat. But to me butter is 100% Love! When a person is heaping a lot of praise on another person, It’s called; “Buttering them up! Butter on a warm roll or a cinnamon bun, on toast fresh out of the toaster, on popcorn, on any vegetable. I love butter in shrimp scampi, lobster dipped in warm butter, artichokes dipped in warm butter, yes even my finger dipped in warm butter! Pan fried goodies like fish, Pierogi, French toast, grilled cheese sandwiches, butter burgers! My family loves to heat up day old spaghetti & sauce in a pan laden with butter, it’s delicious! Butter is love and life!
Many Doctors tell you to limit animal fats of which butter is one. You should always do what your Doctor says! But then how did my mom lived to be 94 years old; she always ate real butter and put Half & Half in her coffee. Hmmm. The chemists (Cooks) came out with margarine patented in 1871, Americas DairyLand banned yellow margarine in 1895 to protect farmer. it didn’t become popular until the second world war.
I always wonder who invented butter? Butter is truly a gift from the “Gods” (as a figure of speech.) Wikipedia suggests that; “An ancient method of butter making, still used today in parts of Africa and the Near East, involves a goat skin half filled with milk, and inflated with air before being sealed. The skin is then hung with ropes on a tripod of sticks, and rocked until the movement leads to the formation of butter. I love the old movies of pioneer people with the wooden butter churn, and moving the wooden stick up and down for a long time to make butter. It’s worth it!
Why did we invent Oleo or margarine an imitation butter substitute? I understand that during the war, butter was scarce, so the chemists developed an emulsified unnatural process of hydrogenated vegetable oils and in the past beef or some other animal fat mixed in. Originally it was white in color and they had a packet of yellow die that you would mix in with it to make it look more like butter. I never liked the taste of any of these products compared to butter and being a “Boomer” we did not have a shortage of butter; margarine was promoted as a healthy alternative to butter. Non-dairy margarine is helpful in the kosher community at certain times for other religious or health reasons. The Mayo Clinic says most margarine is better for you than butter, since the FDA banned hydrogenated oils in margarine to reduce the amount of heart damaging trans fats in the product. Wait it was supposed to be healthier?
It seems to me that every time the food industry creates a product in the lab, its heralded as the latest and the greatest, it may not live up to the hype. There is an endless stream of mind control going trying to convince the public that food made from bugs is healthier for you, they even have milk made from black maggots or something. Bill Gates is trying to sell synthetic beef, chicken and various meats made from cells grown in a steel tank, saying it will save the world by cutting everyone’s carbon footprint. Of course, the elite fly around the world, living in various mansions, eating real steak, drinking real milk, while they tell you how to live. Our health has been impacted by many of the inventions from these scientists: High Fructose Syrup, trans fats, grinding sheep organs and central nervous parts mixing it into cow feed and feeding it to vegetarian cows, brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, Red Dye No 3, titanium dioxide, propylparaben and the list goes on. In looking at many cookbooks, some say butter or margarine, I never seem to read past butter! Butter is beautiful; Butter like many natural foods that come from God! If Butter is on sale, I think I will buy 10 pounds of butter, I can freeze it for an emergency! Butter is Better! It’s popcorn & butter time!
“Remember, every day is a gift! Some are just a little more fun to open than others. – Joel
Author of: “The Guinea Pig In The Freezer”. joelmvernier@aol.com
