Ever heard of the Butter Line?
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@catzilla @raymaccarthy @infobeautiful I read a while back that the secret to Mediterranean and Japanese longevity differences isn't eating olive oil or lots of fish - its lying about your age for pension purposes and poor government record keeping.
@johnefrancis @raymaccarthy @infobeautiful Maybe, but my family is Mediterranean, had really poor diets, living conditions and they all lived ridiculously long. I’m talking 100 year old people who survive the most absurd health conditions doctors swore it would kill them. I really can’t explain what keeps my family alive other than chain smoking and olive oil.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful we love olive oil AND olives! 🫒
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful I think this is bullshit. I'm Romanian and we usually cook with sunflower oil. Olive oil is considered a "delicacy" and used mostly in salads, and butter is too expensive for most people to use in cooking.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
This is either outdated, wrong, or misleading. After the 1980s it should also include margarine. -
@infobeautiful I think this is bullshit. I'm Romanian and we usually cook with sunflower oil. Olive oil is considered a "delicacy" and used mostly in salads, and butter is too expensive for most people to use in cooking.
@calm_bomb @infobeautiful (map does not consider other edible oils)
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@johnefrancis @raymaccarthy @infobeautiful Maybe, but my family is Mediterranean, had really poor diets, living conditions and they all lived ridiculously long. I’m talking 100 year old people who survive the most absurd health conditions doctors swore it would kill them. I really can’t explain what keeps my family alive other than chain smoking and olive oil.
@catzilla @raymaccarthy @infobeautiful how confident were you in their ages? Maybe they were actually 90 instead of 100. Nobody cared that much if the local church in Italy put the year of birth as 1917 vs. 1922 on a baptismal certificate completed years after the fact. Parents lied so they could keep their kids out of school. The govt. didn't care to audit them.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful As an olive person, I look at butter people with a mix of disgust and curiosity.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful Olive oil for the win! 🪔
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful for liguria is wrong, there is not a single receipts with butter
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful the green area is the flavor zone
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@infobeautiful Seems to coincide with tomato versus potato Europe:
another map:
olive oil and tomatoes are significantly more healthy than butter and potatoes
but of course there's other factors
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful makes sense; people in colder places eating more calories
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful Where the butter line and the vermouth line intersect is where you'll find Julia Child.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful I'm in the olive oil area!
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful the correct answer is butter + olive oil. Making veggies taste good since forever.
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@infobeautiful the correct answer is butter + olive oil. Making veggies taste good since forever.
@kimlockhartga @infobeautiful This is the way.
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@infobeautiful makes sense; people in colder places eating more calories
@ShadSterling @infobeautiful Also if you look at the climate, the olive oil region is close to exactly the areas where olives can be easily cultivated.
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@infobeautiful the correct answer is butter + olive oil. Making veggies taste good since forever.
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful which sense does this comparison make without sunflower and other oils?
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Ever heard of the Butter Line?
@infobeautiful Huh! I wonder about the Scrapple Line here in the US. I think it runs North-South, somewhere West of Virginia. To the West, nobody has heard of scrapple. To the East, it's a common food.
