Bacon Fat for Bombs

[shanneba]

Throughout WWII, butter was rationed, and the variety of cooking fats we have today didn’t yet exist, so housewives often saved bacon fat for cooking. It was also valued for the war effort—homemakers were asked to give their bacon grease to the local butcher, who turned it into the government because it was needed for the production of glycerin used to make bombs.

Even the Disney company was enlisted to encourage American housewives to give their precious cooking fat to the government. “A skillet of bacon grease is a mini-munitions factory,” stated a narrator as Minnie Mouse gave Pluto bacon fat in the 1942 short cartoon created to encourage people to participate in the war effort.

Bacon Fat For Bombs: When Recycling Was A Way Of Life

An interesting look back at how reusing and recycling was a way of life, not just the "green" thing to do.

www.farmersalmanac.com

 

[bc22wm]

Bacon fat for bombs my left foot. There is nothing like toasted cheese sandwich on homemade bread using bacon fat for grease. Use it for frying homemade donuts, lube the pan for an omelet, ............

 

[Lexie__M]

AS a kid, me mum used bacon grease on so many types of foods especially green beans, peas, string beans and on the iron pan grilled cheese, hamburger, hot dogs, steaks, ham, pork chops, etc.

We never heard of cholesterol and all the BS that comes with it.

 

[Bassbob]

There was always a jar of bacon grease. My wife remembers the same thing from her childhood

I see the utility of pig fat slathered all over munitions in certain situations though.

 

[bc22wm]

We never heard of cholesterol and all the BS that comes with it.

Thats because people got off their fat @$$ and worked for a living as well as playing to relax and have fun. It don't take much effort to pitch a game of horseshoes, but more than sitting on the couch and clicking through 300 channels.

 

[Shibadog]

AS a kid, me mum used bacon grease on so many types of foods especially green beans, peas, string beans and on the iron pan grilled cheese, hamburger, hot dogs, steaks, ham, pork chops, etc.

We never heard of cholesterol and all the BS that comes with it.

Ditto. Cholesterol hadn’t been invented yet-and dang that food was good. Grandma lived until until 94, and Mom until 97 and they both cooked everything with bacon grease.