# Is fat by itself delicious to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 12, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128 "2023-01-12T20:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/81 "2023-01-16T17:00:30Z")
> [@gre](#): > > Whatever butter brickle is. I wasn’t sure, either. > **[Butter Brickle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_Brickle)** > > Butter Brickle is a chocolate-coated toffee first sold on November 20, 1924 by candy manufacturer John G. Woodward Co. of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and toffee pieces for flavoring ice cream, manufactured by The Fenn Bros. Ice Cream and Candy Co. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. > Butter Brickle was first sold on 20 November 1924, and the trademark registered 15 May 1928 by candy manufacturer John G. Woodward Co. in Council Bluffs, Iowa for candy, not ice cream. > Arthur E. Dempsey, a candy maker and later... ETA: The name is still trademarked! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/82 "2023-01-16T17:13:23Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I can see a bite-sized piece or butter or a couple of tablespoons of oil, but I speculate there is only so much you can have at once and keep down. Semi-relevant, but I can’t help thinking of it: Years ago, the household I was living in took in a cat who’d been living in very bad circumstances, including being chronically half-starved. It took quite a while to convince that cat that yes, we could be counted on to give him more food at the next meal, so he didn’t need to eat, as fast as possible, anything and everything that he got a chance at. One night somebody left a full cup of cooking oil sitting out in the kitchen. That cat drank the whole thing. It didn’t stay inside him very long – (Humans, of course, are generally considerably larger than the cat was.) ---
**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/83 "2023-01-16T17:25:08Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > (Humans, of course, are generally considerably larger than the cat was.) Is that like a gallon for a person? Hmm, didn’t Lard Ass chug a bottle of oil in Stand by Me? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/84 "2023-01-16T17:27:51Z")
> [@gre](#): > > Is that like a gallon for a person? The cat probably weighed about 8 or 10 pounds at the time; but I don’t know if such things go exactly by size equivalents. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/85 "2023-01-16T18:18:55Z")
Castor oil. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/86 "2023-01-16T22:15:33Z")
Oh yeah, castor oil. I’ve never even seen castor oil in real life. Did 1950s moms just keep it around for whenever they wanted to make their kids vomit? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/87 "2023-01-16T22:22:39Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Canola oil is just nasty stuff. Agreed. I had muffins and brownies both come out tasting very odd and figured out that it was using canola oil that I’d bought when vegetable oil was unavailable that’d caused the strange and deeply unpleasant aftertaste. As for fat, I agree with whoever up thread said they cut almost all off before eating meat. Beef and pork fat are okayish in small amounts. Chicken fat is gross so that one I do cut off completely. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/88 "2023-01-17T03:46:30Z")
> [@gre](#): > > Oh yeah, castor oil. I’ve never even seen castor oil in real life. Did 1950s moms just keep it around for whenever they wanted to make their kids vomit? The intended use of castor oil is as a laxative, not an emetic. Oh, and by the way, it’s [probably still available](https://www.google.com/search?q=castor+oil) at your local drug store. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/89 "2023-01-17T09:28:17Z")
The fat is the best part of a grilled steak, just like the skin is the best part of a chicken. That doesn’t mean I’d ever consider sitting down to a big plate of just fat or skin. But I would enjoy a bite of just fat or skin. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/90 "2023-01-17T19:04:39Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > That doesn’t mean I’d ever consider sitting down to a big plate of just fat or skin. I discovered that if you have a leftover chicken, you can re-crisp the skin by peeling it off and sticking it under a broiler for a few minutes. Then you’ve got a nice plate of hot, crispy chicken skins to snack on. I have actually seen bags of fried chicken skins at an international grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128/91 "2023-01-18T00:15:41Z")
> [@gre](#): > > Seems it was “People Who Live in Brass Hearses” from Tales from the Crypt. A guy (Bill Paxton) who loved butter and kept a stick in his pocket to munch on One guy told me his aunt did that. Butter was a treat and she would have a piece now and then, apparently, though I do not imagine she went around with a stick in her pocket. However, I actually met a guy who would go to the movies and, instead of munching on popcorn or sunflower seeds or peanuts or whatever, would pull a piece of cheese out of his pocket and start eating it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fat-by-itself-delicious-to-you/978128.md?page=4)