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   Walter Bushell to Your Name   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   21 Feb 14 14:12:09   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article <150120141825502190%YourName@YourISP.com>,   
    Your Name  wrote:   
      
   > In article , Robert Bannister   
   >  wrote:   
   > > On 15/01/2014 8:24 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > Nah. Just use the waste cooking fat from all the McDonalds stores ...   
   > > > or at least you could of until the "obesity epidemic" fanatics started   
   > > > causing McDonalds to become Salad Town.   
   > >   
   > > Have you ever driven behind a car that uses waste cooking fat? The last   
   > > time I did, I nearly puked at the fumes.   
   >   
   > No surprise there. Many people get the same reaction eating at   
   > McDonalds too.   ;-)   
      
   Since they've changed to polyunsaturated seed oils, quite, since those   
   oils go rancid fast. That was the point of using saturated fat in the   
   old daze, and then the move to transfats was to get away from   
   saturated fats while still having a high smoke point and resistance to   
   going rancid.   
      
   --   
   Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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