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Please note, this episode contains references to dieting and weight loss.

Eleanor Roosevelt is like a margarine influencer.

Now I'm just to imagine her doing like the little influencer hand with the stick of margarine.

Come with me as I go to the store to get some good luck margarine.

Get ready with me with my margarine sauce.

This is the Sporkfall. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.

So the other day, I was in the grocery store picking up a few things, including some canola oil.

Now, I mostly use canola or olive oil in my cooking, occasionally butter.

As I grabbed this bottle of canola oil, I thought to myself, is this a seed oil?

Like, I hear all this talk about seed oils, and I don't even know if I'm using one.

So, like any human in the year 2025, I start Googling in the supermarket aisle.

Yes, it's a seed oil.

Is that bad? Some people on social media say yes, but it seems most legitimate scientists say no. In fact, there's some evidence that

canola oil improves cholesterol levels better than olive oil. Now I'm literally reading abstracts

from research papers in the grocery store. Can I just make dinner? The way people cook and what we

cook is obviously different in different parts of the world, right? And of course it's changed a lot

over the generations. But one thing has been a constant for centuries. Fat, whether it's butter,

oil, or some kind of animal fat, if if you're cooking or baking you're pretty much always

using some kind of fat but which one you use isn't just about what you're making in america

your cooking fat has long been a signifier not only of health but also a virtue and class so

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