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To market, to market
Did some market shopping this morning. I bought three types of cooked or smoked meat. When I wanted samples, the women at the counter cut off a chunk for me and made sure to include some of the fat with it. Glorious!
In the US when your try meat samples, I think the fat is maximally cut off. Heavens, what a mistake. I've now concluded that the fat is about the best part. Hm. I bet when professional chefs go shopping for this sort of thing, they want the fat as well.
I remember as a kid my sister would always eat the crispy fat off her steaks. I had already been acclimatized to the American "fat is gross" idea and was horrified. Now I think she was responding to normal physiological queues. The body wants fat. Years later, of course, she grew into the "fat is gross" idea as well. I wonder where she is on that nowadays?