"JR" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:

Try to track that down, Joel, just for curiosity. This site
http://mpob.gov.my/nut_12fact.htm says just the opposite, but we all
know
about scientific research, especially the kind funded by the
manufacturers
of the product itself.

Another site said how Palm Oil is the number two most consumed oil in
the
world, behind Sunflower oil! I had no idea how large an industry it was.

Most of the palm oil in the world is used for industrial purposes. It's
where the brand name Palmolive came from.....

MOST interesting! :-)

You ever get to Eastern Congo, have rice and beans at the market in
Bukavu..... tomatos, onions, pilipili, and swimming in palm oil...
tastes so good you won't care your arteries are clogging.

Will do, but that's what I have for lunch every day now! A local woman
brings a basket of food on campus for the workers, and I eat with them to
get the tasty food and to practice my Lingala. She makes rice and beans
almost every day, but sometimes replaces it with rice and a
kasava/caterpillar mix that is pretty good. One week I was gone for a
conference, and when I returned, someone told me that the Congolese at the
table were wondering where I was. I said "but they don't know my name! What
did they call me?" He translated her reply" They call you 'the white guy who
eats beans and rice each day'."

--riverman
(twgwebared)