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[lauradi7dw]

It looks more like breakfast I guess, but the tiny pie has a regular flour and oil crust on the bottom, then frozen blueberries (they thawed while baking) in the middle, then oatmeal/butter/a little sugar on top.
I have tried to cut palm oil out of my life with the weird exception of palmitate supplementation in milk. All commercial pies I've checked have palm oil (also most US and Korean brands of quick ramen, irritatingly). I used olive oil today, but yesterday in a f*ck RFK jr way, I bought a quart bottle of organic canola oil.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5453769/nutrition-canola-rfk-seed-oils-soybean
I am grateful that the Trader Joe's brand of round crackers (shaped like Ritz) are made with soybean oil, not palm. Small packages of PB crackers usually have palm oil, but this way I can make my own (and do, almost every day).

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[nosrednayduj]

So why does rfk have it in for canola oil? I thought that was one of the good ones. We use it for most cooking.

[lauradi7dw]

As in the NPR summary linked above, he believes that "seed oils" are partly responsible for obesity. It's part of his thing to have people switch *to* animal fat. I was in the Bedford S&S the other day instead of my usual one. I remembered seeing lard in stores before, but in the cooking oil section they had packages specifically labelled tallow (the beef equivalent of lard, IIRC). I hadn't noticed that before. I remember a class action suit by a bunch of Hindu (and other) folks against McDonald's years ago when it was learned that McD had been frying their potato products in tallow, while implying that they were in vegetable oil
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-settles-beef-over-fries/