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I have never used lard, but I have used bacon grease...mmmm.

Actually, I have heard that there's been a renaissance of sorts for the use of lard (Crisco, most popularly) but my mom never used it so I just never formed a basis for using it. If it's tasty I wouldn't mind trying it though.

I will never understand how things are deemed to be nutritionally the equivalent of consuming delicious but toxic industrial run-off in one decade and then redeemed as actually not so bad for you the next. It's a bastard conspiracy, I tell you.

And just for the record, I go through boatloads of olive oil, too.

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