Catherine
Quoting Kelley <jimmyjames at softhome.net>:
> At 05:26 PM 1/7/03 -0800, Chip Berlet wrote:
>
> >I eat them on road trips through the south. It's a culture thing. Like
> >shopping at Piggly-Wiggly or drinking RC Cola.
>
> on my trip southward, I wanted to see a PIggly Wiggly! I never found one.
> RC cola is southern? Never knew!
>
>
> > > Aren't those skins and not big gobs of "depot" fat?
> > >
> > > Doug
>
> i can't stand them, my dad lurvs 'em. He ain't southern, but is sho'nuf is
> a man who likes his offbeat foods: pig's feet, pickled eggs, super hot
> anything, etc. As Chip says, they're half protein, half fat. in fact, I
> think they have slightly more protein than fat. The Inuit, of course, eat
> something quite similar, consisting of a bit more fat: whale skin and whale
>
> blubber. The fat composition ranges anywhere from 30-70% depending on what
> part of the whale they're eating. I just had me a nice, yummy fresh salmon
> for dinner! Gotta love the nice, tasty and very healthy Omega 3 oils!
>
> Eating a half ounce of pork rinds would be like eating an egg in terms of
> grams of protein and grams of fat. We, otherwise, consider an egg a really
> lovely source of protein. Of course, as we now know: cholesterol
> consumption doesn't really cause high cholesterol so no need to worry about
>
> that any more. Our liver makes more cholesterol than most of us could
> possibly eat in a day and, in turn, it downregulates its production of
> cholesterol depending on how much you eat. We'd have to eat something like
> 9 eggs to get in enough dietary cholesterol to actually match the
> cholesterol our liver makes on a daily basis.
>
>
> Kelley
>
>
> Maybe Chip should do a spot for Emeril?
>
>
>
>
-- Dr Catherine Driscoll School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry University of Sydney Phone (61-2) 93569503
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