@QMS
Melbas - Peach, Toast & Nellie. I know pretty much nothing about Escoffier except that he was supposed to be a great chef.

have a good one.

Peach Melba was created for Victorian era opera star Nellie Melba by the greatest chef of the time, Auguste Escoffier, who also named some thin, crispy toasts in her honor years later.

@Lookout
grease used backwhen, but tallow makes good sense for a chain of burger joints; beef all the way.

Not to worry about the diet, I was just poking at the veganism bandwagon (dedicated omnivore here). Interesting that the dude went blind, though, and probably had a ton of other issues as well.

have a good one.

Ironically the fries you pictured used to be fried in tallow and were much healthier than today's fried in vegetable oil. Have not eaten at Mickey D's in many years myself.

Why are vegetable oils bad? Consider how they are made...

Butter is a simple process that comes when cream separates from milk. This is a natural process that only takes a little patience. Once the cream and milk have separated, all you need to do is skim off the cream and shake it until it becomes butter. (And it really is as easy as it sounds, I’ve made butter lots of times. Takes about 5 minutes.)

Now let’s compare that to the production of canola oil. Here’s an overly simplified version of the process:

Step 1: Find some “canola seeds.” Oh wait, they don’t exist. Canola oil is actually made from a hybrid version of the rapeseed… most likely genetically modified and heavily treated with pesticides.

Step 2: Heat the rapeseeds at unnaturally high temperatures so that they oxidize and are rancid before you ever buy them.

Step 3: Process with a petroleum solvent to extract the oils.

Step 4: Heat some more and add some acid to remove any nasty wax solids that formed during the first processing.

Step 5: Treat the oil with more chemicals to improve the color.

Step 6: Deodorize the oil to mask the horrific smell from the chemical processing.

Of course, if you want to take your vegetable oils one step further, just hydrogenated it until it becomes a solid. Now you have margarine and all its trans-fatty wonder.

https://www.thankyourbody.com/vegetable-oils/

And don't go on a fries only diet...you'll go blind!

An extreme case of “fussy” junk-food eating led a young man in the UK to actually go blind, according to a new case report.

The patient involved in the case decided in his adolescence he only liked chips, french fries (a type of crisp) and the occasional slice of white bread.

When he lost his sight, clinical tests showed extremely severe nutritional deficiencies.

https://recoveringman.org/young-man-goes-blind-after-eating-diet-of-chips/

Have a good day everyone. I'm off to Birmingham for a rare band practice.

@mimi
clip. Have a good one.

speaking truth to power. Courageous lady that she is.
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Tusli you go.

@magiamma
seed, it squirted out of the tweezers and got lost. Olives I can handle, and often do.

Thanks for reading.

have a good one.

et al

Organic cold pressed sesame oil is my favorite oil. Flax seed oil and olive oil as well. All cold pressed organic. And organic butter from pasture fed cows. Guess I need to rethink fried foods. Eat them very rarely. I think of food as medicine and as such oils are very important.

Another busy day organizing. Six weeks to go. Or is it five now. Yipes.

Thanks for the ot. Be well...

@smiley7
Fred the Fish, with or without malt vinegar. The closest I ever come to fried fish is pan seared, though I do recall in my youth cutting it into small chunks, breading with masa harina mixed with pepper and more or less flash frying enough multiple small batches to constitute a couple of servings in minimal il in the bottom of a wok (requiring frequent turning and stirring) - it was an interesting product, but not up to the other stuff we do with it now.

Sand in your shoes or in your toenails?

have a good one.

Good day for Fred the Fish, thank you.

Can't seem to get out of first gear today; okay, not so much has to be done. Maybe paying for over-eating yesterday.

Longing for sand in my shoes.

Blind from fish and chips; could the newspaper ink have also contributed?

Reminds me to purchase malt vinegar next time out. Oil, use mostly olive, love sesame, never tried flax seed oil, do keep flax meal on hand and i guess this news means that canola oil doesn't have appellation controls.

Anyways, have a good one.

@irishking
the information and the clip.

have a good one.

of music and dances.