[blparent] Peanut Butter

Mon May 21 15:54:26 UTC 2012

Peanut butter was invented after the Civil War by George Washington Carver, 
who spent his life trying to get farmers in the South to grow something 
other than cotton, which wore out the soil.  He invented hundreds of uses 
for peanuts.  But peanut butter didn't come into general use till World War 
II, when it was given to soldiers as a nonperishable protein meal.  By the 
1950's, it was in every kid's lunch box.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 9:41 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!

>        I heard that peanut butter wasn't around before World War II.  It 
> was given to soldiers because it kept well. They liked it so much they 
> demmanded it when they got home.
> Makes me wonder what people ate before peanut butter.
>
> Jo Elizabeth, I love your story.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:44 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>
> I grew up on margarine and actually prefer it over butter for taste.  My
> grandma used to tell about how margarine became popular during World War 
> II
> because butter was tightly rationed.  She said the margarine would come in 
> a
> white block that she described as very ugly, and with it a packet of 
> yellow
> coloring.  She said you had to mix the yellow color into the margarine, 
> and
> mix and mix and mix, and eventually it would be all yellow, supposedly 
> like
> butter, but she told me the coloring didn't enhance the appearance of the
> margarine a whole lot.  I remember her telling me the margarine story 
> years
> ago when she had baked some cookies that I thought were delicious, but she
> didn't like the way they looked because the mint candy that she had put in
> the middle of each one had melted all over the top instead of staying nice
> and round and pretty.  She said she thought maybe sighted people fussed 
> too
> much.  Those cookies tasted just fine to me, sloppy-looking or not, and 
> I've
> always remembered her telling me about ugly white margarine.  She always
> baked with Crisco or butter, and my other grandma, who was Spanish, swore 
> by
> lard.
>
> All done rambling, I guess, but I've been proofreading an insurance manual
> in Spanish since nine o'clock this morning and I had to come up for air!
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:13 PM
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>
>> Yep, I was just sharing the information with the list as food for 
>> thought,
>> no pun intended. GRIN
>>
>> Erin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:09 PM
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>>
>> What I take away from the post and discussion is that butter isn't
>> necessarily good for you, but margarine is probably not dangerous, 
>> either.
>> All things in moderation.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
>> of
>> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all
>> of
>> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:08 PM
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>>
>>> So there are different types of Margarine but just one kind made in
>>> this way is enough to watch-out for the product and be more on the
>>> defense when purchasing such altered and man-made food items.  I
>>> wasn't sending this out to everyone as gospel that we should hurry up
>>> and send out to everyone we know, but I merely found it interesting
>>> and thought how it's good to educate ourselves on how disgusting some
>>> of the "food" items are that companies expect us to eat which we do as
>>> a whole because we're too trusting.  Just because something's being
>>> sold in a grocery store here in America doesn't mean we should eat it
>>> and if we base our purchases upon that state of mind, then we're in
>>> trouble.  I truly and firmly believe that obesity is on the rise, not
>>> just because of people's poor eating habits and lack of exercise but
>>> it's also largely based on what's put into our foods and how things
>>> are processed and-or manufactured.  The bottom line is that the more
>>> natural and less processed we get our foods the better and that's the
>>> only message I was sharing here.  Of course there are a million
>>> different studies out there warning us against this and that, but have
>>> we ever seen a study that says that margarine is good for us?  Just a
>>> thought.
>>>
>>> Erin
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:34 PM
>>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Cc: Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>>>
>>> I like your line of thinking sir. Thank you for this well-written
>>> response.
>>> I knew that something being sold every day to everybody for years
>>> cannot be that bad and on the brink of killing us all.
>>>
>>> Gabe Vega
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> (623) 565-9357
>>>
>>> On May 17, 2012, at 12:24 PM, "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> yeah real old, do a little more reading. It is kind of true, but it
>>>> depends on what margarine your looking at.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/butter-vs-margarine/AN00835
>>>>
>>>> http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/prevention/askdietician/margarine.
>>>> aspx
>>>>
>>>> http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
>>>>
>>>> I really like the part about being one molecule away from being 
>>>> plastic.
>>>> Even a very slight change in the molecular structure of a substance
>>>> can make a huge difference. o2 is the oxygen we need for life, but o3
>>>> is ozone, which is considered poisonous. You going to stop breathing
>>>> because the oxygen you need to survive is 1 molecule away from a 
>>>> poison?
>>>>
>>>> Some would argue that all products containing vegetable oil are bad
>>>> for you, and you should only use lard and tallow for cooking.
>>>>
>>>> No matter what you decide to eat someone is going to come up with
>>>> some research that says it is bad for you.
>>>>
>>>> now if you want to be careful of something, watch out for dihydrogen
>>>> monoxide.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Erin Rumer
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:33 PM
>>>> To: NFB blind parent listserv
>>>> Subject: [blparent] Pass the butter please!
>>>>
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is some interesting and amazing facts about margarine and butter
>>>> that I thought you'd all like to read since we're always concerned
>>>> about putting the right things in our children's mouths as well as
>>>> our
>>> own.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Erin
>>>>
>>>> Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it
>>>> killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the
>>>> research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure
>>>> out what to do with this product to get their money back.
>>>> It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow
>>>> colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you
>>>> like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....
>>>>
>>>> DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
>>>>
>>>> Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
>>>>
>>>> Both have the same amount of calories.
>>>> Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats  at  8 grams; compared to
>>>> 5 grams for margarine.
>>>>
>>>> Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over
>>>> eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard
>>>> Medical
>>> Study.
>>>>
>>>> Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in
>>>> other foods.
>>>> Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and
>>>> only because they are added!
>>>>
>>>> Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the
>>>> flavours of other foods
>>>>
>>>> Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around
>>>> for less than 100 years.
>>>> And now, for Margarine.
>>>>
>>>> Very High in Trans fatty acids.
>>>>
>>>> Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...
>>>>
>>>> Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and
>>>> lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
>>>>
>>>> Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
>>>>
>>>> Lowers quality of breast milk
>>>>
>>>> Decreases immune response.
>>>>
>>>> Decreases insulin response.
>>>>
>>>> And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY
>>>> INTERESTING!
>>>>
>>>> Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... And shares
>>>> 27 ingredients withPAINT These facts alone were enough to have me
>>>> avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated
>>>> (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of
>>>> the
>>> substance).
>>>> Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded 
>>>> area.
>>>> Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
>>>>
>>>> * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that
>>>> should tell you something)
>>>>
>>>> * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional
>>>> value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny
>>>> microorganisms will not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly
>> plastic .
>>>> Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
>>>>
>>>> Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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