I do agree with the moralization of the idea, and also the bullshit diet portions. My grandmother taught me to cook with organically grown vegetables and fruits, and meats as well as much as possible (though she didn't call it "organic", she called it "non-trash".) She also used butter, never margarine, and real sugar, and wine or brandy, and shortening if it was called for, or whatever else might be needed to make the food taste good. Cholesterol? "Bunch of nonsense". (That is a direct quote from less than 10 years ago.) Weight loss? Work harder and eat a little less, you'll lose the weight.
One of my cousins married a cheerleader-type ditz who brought Splenda into my grandmother's kitchen to make cookies "we could all enjoy". I don't think she's been allowed in the house since, and the only time I've heard my grandmother reference her it was "that crazy girl with the fake sugar".[ Parent ]
