re: #840 Mad Al-Jaffee

And Granddma Utz potato chips. Cooked in lard, sooo good, but sooo bad for you!

I would disagree. Fat, after all, is an essential nutrient - you cannot live without it. The same is true for salt. And carbohydrates. Eliminate any one of them from your diet, and you’ll be dead in fairly short order, and in rather unpleasant ways.

The problem is quantity. And increasingly, with the mounting prevalence of heavily processed foods, density, which allows you to pack as many calories into a single handful of snack as an entire bowl might have contained a few years ago.

As excellent as Grandma’s chips were, I bet they weren’t served by the bucketload, at every meal, seven days a week throughout the year.