New York nanny-dictators go after the butter

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• Where is Paula Deen - the Stick of Butter Queen when you need her?

  • At a diabetic clinic having her blood sugar tested! It wasn't the butter that did her in, it was everything else!

• My goodness my grandma and grandpa lived into thier 80s with little medical care and eatin meat,potatoes,butter,drinking coffee and wine! Maybe leave people the fu!! alone and let live as they choose and die as they choose is best!!!!!!!!!

  • My parents are both 94. They like butter, they like bacon, they like any kind of red meat, and they love doughnuts. Go figure.

    • What's not to love with that diet?

      • It's all good by me, but for the doughnuts.
        As I mentioned before, I'm working on keeping my sugar in check, carbs are a very small part of my diet. It has had a positive result though, I've lost 20 lbs and 2" around my waist.

        • Good for you Poppa! Some carbs are ok. Try to eat complex carbs, not processed food carbs. Whole wheat pasta has a great nutty taste. Just small amunts. We need carbs for energy. At a meal you should be getting about 3 servings of carbs, So a slice of bread, a half cup of pasta, and a half cup of fruit. But if you don't eat the bread, you can have a whole cup of pasta. the sauce is ok, especially if you eat it like most Italians and just dress the pasta, as opposed to spooning 2 cups of sauce over it.

        • I envy you! I quit smoking 6 months ago, started exercising like mad 5 months ago and started lowering carbs and eating twigs and gravel 4 months ago. I have gained 4 lb. LOL.

          My doctors theory is that I have prevented the 30+ lbs that people gain when they quit smoking. My gym trainer says "muscle weighs more than fat". I know I don't really need to lose much weight, but seriously - this is getting really depressing. I am ready for a cigarette and a couple of (ok - a half dozen) Krispy Kremes just about now!

        • A fair bit of protein, lots of veggies, and some fruit. A little complex carb and a fair amount of fat. Eaten in moderate portions and coupled with excercise, you should lose. Of course, in America, the portions are usually the problem. An 18 oz t-bone is NOT one serving!

        • When I quit smoking 16 years ago, I gained 50 lbs, at one point it was 65 lb weight gain. I have tried to lose weight before to no avail, I love bread too much to go that route. Now it's a serious health issue, and I need to get my priorities in order.
          NO sugars, very limited grains. It's killing me not to eat bread/grains, I'm Italian and miss my pasta and pizza. I do allow myself an occasional indulgence, but for the most part, my carb intake is a bowl of bran flakes for breakfast, and whatever spurious carbs are in other foods.

        • Good luck with the smoking. I quit for a full year after my heart attack, gained 15 pounds, and then bought myself a pack of cigarettes as a Christmas present. All my other bad ideas have involved women.

        • Lol I quit for about 15 years a longtime ago. Someone at work had a kid and gave me a cigar. I figured after that long I could puff one one and it wouldn't bother me. I ended up buying a pack on the way home. Then I smoked another 10 years then quit a second time. If I started now it woud be divorce time. A great incentive not to start again.

        • Well, I told my husband that when I hit 75, I am starting smoking again. Period. At that point, if I am still alive, it's not likely the smoking will kill me.

        • I quit a few years ago and gained a lot of weight. I'm now losing it via diet changes. I can't run or walk much right now thanks to plantar faciatus in my left foot. If I could I'd drop more weight.

• PETA MILK is slavery! Cause cows were roming freely before we made them! Didnt you see the history channel show wild Holstiens of the west or maybe road island red chickens before time,oh maybe if your to young angas of the ice age,gernseys B.C.,The delware blacks agianst the bard rocks or maybe Brammas gone wild!

  • Maybe that's why PETA people look like the aliens from Close Encounters.

    http://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/135_2.jpg

    • I had a friend awhile back who was major vegetarian, vegan if possible. She fed her dogs meat and poultry etc because she knew it was good for them. She was against circuses because of the confinement of wild animals, she was against rodeos because of the stress on the animals. And even SHE wouldn't have anything to do withPETA.. Sqaid she joined, then humng with thme a while and unjoined because they were crazy.

• You know, if this Mike Bloomberg official food nazi shit isn't brought under control soon, this serious infection could become pandemic! Has anybody notified the CDC?

  • I tried to call the CDC but nobody answered the phone. They're all comatose from lack of calories.

    • LOL!! :-)

• Butter, it's like spreading plutonium on your toast.

  One trouble (one of many) with "free" school breakfasts, lunches and dinners is it allows the food nazis to dictate what the students can and can't eat in those meals.

  • Except traditionally, the schools received free governtment surplus Milk, cheese and (yep, wait for it) BUTTER! But now its killing you? Its like everything else they havetried to ban. Grass fed beef has as much Omega -3 as salmon. Freshly rendered pork fat has onounsaturated fats andother nutrients that are healthier and safer than hysrognated vegetable shortening. Eggs have been shown (again) to be nearly perfect food. Many of the nutrients are in the yolk, so EAT THE WHOLE EGG. The crap about eggs raising your cholesterol was crap. Studies have shown that just because the food itself has cholesterol, doesn't mean it will raise the cholesterol of those consuming it. Eat moderate portions of a lot of different foods, get off the couch now and again and you'll be fine. And eating fat doesn't MAKE you fat! ok, off the soap box (for now)

    • I love the egg thing: first they were good for you, then they were bad for you, now they're back to being the perfect food. I think we're all better off using common sense. When I go out to dinner hungry and they bring hot bread and whipped butter, I know damn well it's not the greatest thing for me and I don't need any damn nutrition expert telling me that - I eat it because it's delicious. But I make myself stop after one slice because I'm nearly 60 years old and let's face it I don't get the kind of exercise anymore that can wear off two or three slices.

• Yes, lets ditch the butter, because a partially hydrogenated corn oil, that one molecule away from being a plastic polymer is so much better for you.
  Anybody remember that olestra crap? Margarine is basically the same stuff.

  • Damn, you beat me to to the plastic thing.
    Not many people know that....for good reason I guess.

    • Let them eat plastic!

      • And, many people don't know this either, but peanut butter almost all has that hydrogenated crap in it. Mr. Carver is probably rolling over in his grave about now.

        • BTW Karmaa, I don't remember if you were here when I posted this the first time, so here it is again.

          http://www.cooking.com/recipes-and-more/recipes/poppajoes-chicken-concoction-recipe-10003487.aspx#axzz24MjpWC00

        • I don't really like chicken (or any poultry) but I will eat it like this. And that sounds yummy! I collect old cookbooks, and consider anything with canned or dry soup mix in it to be a contender.

          But let me tell you something even better and cheaper. For the onion soup mix - buy a big jar of the "better than bullion" stuff http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=better%20than%20bullion&go=&form=QBIL&qs=n#view=detail&id=65F71FBEA1B0484F0EC2032F9F9D998B757DDF64&selectedIndex=3 and freeze-dried onions. It's 20x tastier (if that's possible!) and way cheaper!

          For creamed soup I usually just use the generic stuff, but there are some recipes out there for make-your-own. http://www.salad-in-a-jar.com/family-recipes/make-your-own-condensed-cream-of-mushroom-soup-in-less-than-5-minutes I don't care about sodium at all, so the canned stuff is fine and healthy enough.

        • Well, the first time I made it, I used veal shoulder blade chops, cut them off the bone, and.......
          Too bad the wife won't eat veal.
          I think this would work great with chuck roast too.

        • It may cost more, but there is a store here that makes all natural peanut butter. I love it on BUTTERED toast with sugar free raspberry jam.

        • "All natural?" I doubt it. When I was sixteen I was in San Francisco and bought some peanut butter fresh out of the grinder - they simply ran the peanuts through a grinder and put the resulting paste on a cracker. I thought I would never swallow again. I was like a dog who licked peanut butter. That crap was so dry it was impossible to get down. I'm guessing your natural peanut butter has some kind of oil or sweetener or both added to make it palatable. Maybe they're adding bacon grease.

        • They don't add sugar, but usually natural peanut butter has naturally occuring oil that has to be stirred back into the peanut butter each time you use it.

        • When I was a little boy my aunt took care of me for a day and when lunchtime came she asked me if I liked baloney. I loved baloney but I noticed her baloney had hunks of something in it. I'd never seen baloney with hunks of stuff embedded in it so I assumed my aunt's baloney had gone bad and I was looking at mold. Ever the polite little boy, I said no thanks and asked if she had peanut butter and jelly. That's when she brought out a tub of peanut butter with oil floating on the top like you describe. "My God," I thought, "Aunt Lois's baloney is moldy and even her peanut butter has gone bad! Poor woman, she must be having financial trouble." So I politely asked for a mustard sandwich to spare her any more embarrassment, figuring nothing could possibly be wrong with mustard.

          For the next forty years I had to listen to my Aunt Lois tell everyone at every family reunion that I liked mustard sandwiches... and I had to sit and take it because I was still too polite to tell her WHY I ate a mustard sandwich that day.

        • That would work for me!

        • Somebody forgot the sugar while making raspberry jam?

        • I buy it that way on purpose, trying to keep my sugar in check.

• Directors of school kitchens should reply to this directive in letters that declare their Masters' degrees in nutrition were earned at F.U.

  Sorry about my potty mouth.

• I love the edit job that the recipient did on this letter. Frankly, this is appalling. Besides the typos, the grammar is atrocious! I would bet five dollars that the job of "regional school food manager" requires a minimum of a bachelor's, and more likely a master's degree. How is it possible that such a "qualified" person is darned close to illiterate?

  Using "has to" instead of "must" in professional writing? "Get" instead of "receive"? "Next week Friday"? Maybe it was "take your kid to work day" and he or she let his 5th grader write the note?

  • Likely Spanish is her first language.

  • Not only did this recipient mock the writer by pointing out errors, he or she then shared the memo so it could be published and mocked by the world. I bet whoever it is likes butter.

    • And hates their ignorant boss...

• Butter is way healthier than margarine. I went back to butter a long time ago.

  • It tastes better, cooks better, and is better for you than the faux butter out there. And the 'spreads" usuallyc ontain a great deal of water, which increases the chance of the cook getting(another)burn.

    • What about the spreadable Land O Lakes butter made with canola oil? I figure that one might solve the riddle of how to be spreadable and still taste like butter. But for some reason I've never tried it.

  • Same here.

  • Yep, it's better for you and WAY better for cooking.

    • Frying eggs in margarine is a total disaster. I either use butter, or I fry them in the bacon grease after the bacon is done or I use olive oil. That alleged real butter in a tub sucks too. The only butter I will buy is old fashioned butter sticks.

      • We grew up on butter, and I never changed. Where I live it's either Land O Lakes or Tillamook. Nothing worse than tasting fake butter on my toast or baked potato (or anything for that matter).

        • I remember, as a kid, growing up calling margarine butter. Then, in my late teens, I went out for breakfast to a restaurant for my first time. I know, sad, huh? Their "butter" tasted funny. But I liked it. And I never looked back.

          I've yet to see any butter producer claiming theirs tastes just like margarine.

        • That's because oleo tastes like shit. (teehee)

• I like to dip my bacon in melted butter; I'd be shot on sight if I ever visited NYC.