Wow. Pickle juice is not cheap ($26/gallon). I think I’ll stick with buying them pickles and all.
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.
It’s only $9 a gallon on eBay.
People who don’t believe/have never believed fat is some evil boogeyman which needs to be avoided.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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!
well, assuming you’re not Jewish, Muslim, or veg.
My grandpa drank it.
Since it makes divine crusts, rebrand it as “Lard Almighty”.
I nominate Nad’s Nose Wax.