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Oh, and it might go without saying, but that the grilled stuff tends to be a lot better for your health than the Southern food. So does the olive oil versus the oils (and grease) that Southern food traditionally has in it.
However, most Southern cooks have made changes. Probably, at one time, almost all Southern cooks used lard to cook with (rather than Crisco, etc.), but I haven't known of one who used lard since about 1980 (and you wouldn't believe how much she did use!), and she was in her early 90's (it couldn't be too unhealthy, then, could it? ha) at the time. The last that I noticed, at least one grocery store here carried lard, but it wasn't prominently displayed and there wasn't much shelf space devoted to it.
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