Beef Tallow: The Official Cooking Fat Of Conspiracy Nuts
Because Bill Gates is putting microchips in your olive oil
Tell me we need to go back to frying in beef tallow, and I’m instantly going to judge you. Because the next words out of your mouth are probably going to be “jet fuel can’t melt steel.”
I’m not sure why (actually, I am) people who swear by the health benefits of beef tallow also seem to think Neil Armstrong never walked anywhere but a Burbank TV studio. But over the past year I’ve had people who’ve told me about tallow go on to insist Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by the World Bank (founded in 1944), the government creates hurricanes, and the world is controlled from the Denver Airport. I wish I was making any of these up.
And though there’s no scientific proof showing how beef tallow rots people’s brains, well, it’s an interesting coincidence, isn’t it?
Full disclosure, I’m a little biased here. While I love a nice, lean steak, I find animal fat vile, and would rather eat a raw funnel cake than anything fried in beef tallow. But that, friends, is a m…
