# Is there anything more curious to still find in grocery stores than lard? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659 "2017-04-17T19:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/61 "2017-04-18T16:30:28Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > [Amazon to the rescue!](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_rsis_1_3?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pickle+juice&sprefix=pic%2Caps%2C215) Wow. Pickle juice is not cheap ($26/gallon). I think I’ll stick with buying them pickles and all. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/62 "2017-04-18T16:39:03Z")
Many grocery items are expensive if you look at the prices on Amazon. Usually, if I can find the same item at a local supermarket, it will be considerably cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/63 "2017-04-18T16:41:53Z")
It’s only $9 a gallon on [eBay](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xpickle+juice.TRS0&_nkw=pickle+juice&_sacat=0). ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/64 "2017-04-18T16:49:06Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Intended as sort of a counterpart to this thread[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823876](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823876). > > Ever notice how most grocery stores still carry buckets/[tubs of lard](https://www.google.com/search?q=armour+lard&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjLj7TYm6zTAhXBxYMKHUpWAggQ_AUIBygC&biw=1920&bih=934#spf=1)somewhere in their meat sections? What is this 1955? Who the heck is buying this stuff? People who don’t believe/have never believed fat is some evil boogeyman which needs to be avoided. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/65 "2017-04-18T22:13:31Z")
I found Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound still selling at Walgreen’s. It’s an old patent medicine, mostly for _female_ complaints. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/66 "2017-04-18T23:54:51Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I found Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound still selling at Walgreen’s. It’s an old patent medicine, mostly for _female_ complaints. most efficacious, in every case ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/67 "2017-04-19T00:54:53Z")
For those who don’t get the joke: Patent medicines contained a hefty dose of alcohol- a way of getting around dry laws back in the day, and a way for “respectable” women to drink. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/68 "2017-04-19T01:11:52Z")
Hey! I use Brylcreem and I’m certainly not a bearded 30ish mixologist! Not even a barista! Nor hip! Brylcreem isn’t what it used to be. It’s not the greasy kid stuff my Dad used. It’s more like a leave-in conditioner with some mild holding properties. The greaser rockabilly guys I know won’t touch it. Maybe _they_ use lard. Maybe that could be the new approach for marketing lard. As a new, natural pomade. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/69 "2017-04-19T01:25:52Z")
I was in a grocery store today and decided to look for things I don’t usually notice. Velveeta? No problem. Couldn’t find any lard. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/70 "2017-04-20T00:03:47Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Fresh turmeric root. That part of the post was about fresh turmeric root. I’m well aware of the love of lard (see my first post in this thread.) ETA: Actually, that post is the one you were quoting. So I’m not even sure how the heck you glossed over the topic sentence of my second paragraph, from which you pulled this quote, and completely missed the context. ETA2: Unless there is something about turmeric in what you posted, but I can’t find it. Turmeric root is a very “in” thing for the juice-as-medicine crowd. They’ll throw a one-inch piece into their fancy vegetable juicer when they make their fresh kale/carrot/watermelon/various-other-stuff juice. Supposedly it has health properties, of the vague anti-inflammatory or detoxification kind. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/71 "2017-04-20T00:27:02Z")
Costco has a display for turmeric pills the other day in the pharmacy/medication section. I presumed it was some trend, maybe or maybe not woo. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/72 "2017-04-20T01:23:03Z")
I went into Publix tonight and found: Velveeta (near the tomato sauces, across from pasta, along with the faux Parmesan cheeses) Lard (at the very bottom and end of the aisle, under the cooking oils, across from spices) Dried Beef from Armour (next to all the Spam, etc.) Malted Milk from Carnation (next to all the chocolate milk mix, the silk milk, etc.) Every imaginable canning component imaginable (near the end of the cereal aisle; seriously) I didn’t have time to troll the non-grocery aisles, so I don’t know about mustache wax, etc. Yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/73 "2017-04-20T01:47:56Z")
I use lard and I have a big hunk of pork fat in my freezer that I use a lot too. Lard is good for baking, I use it to make cornbread in a cast iron skillet. Some people like to cook. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/74 "2017-04-20T16:54:20Z")
Nothing wrong with lard. It’s perfect for roast potatoes and pastry. My Mum, who was a teenager during WW2, has clung onto some old rationing habits. She still buys, for example, packets of dried onions. I have no idea where she gets them. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/75 "2017-04-20T17:00:36Z")
Off the topic of lard but still on-topic, who buys canned/jarred mincemeat? I see it on the lowest shelf of the supermarket’s canned pie fillings, always a bit dusty. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/76 "2017-04-20T18:11:18Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Off the topic of lard but still on-topic, who buys canned/jarred mincemeat? I see it on the lowest shelf of the supermarket’s canned pie fillings, always a bit dusty. Try looking in the “British Foods” section, if your store has one. Usually, Kroger, Safeway, Harris-Teeter, Publix, etc. all have one. Mincemeat is much more common in English cuisine, and there may be more options. Along similar lines, if you check out the “Mexican Food” section, you may find some added options for things like spices, nectars, and the like that are common in that cuisine. And don’t by any means pass by the “Middle-Eastern (including for some reason Israel) Foods” section: that has some really really tasty options! ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/77 "2017-04-20T18:18:46Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Nothing wrong with lard. It’s perfect for roast potatoes and pastry. well, assuming you’re not Jewish, Muslim, or veg. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/78 "2017-04-20T18:20:27Z")
[Postem](https://postum.com/) My grandpa drank it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/79 "2017-04-20T18:44:09Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Lard needs an updated name and and an ad campaign. Since it makes divine crusts, rebrand it as “Lard Almighty”. ---
**Author:** ![PlumBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@PlumBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlumBob)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-more-curious-to-still-find-in-grocery-stores-than-lard/784659/80 "2017-04-20T18:46:01Z")
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