So the grocery store reflects that. Thus the goat meat, which is no longer going to have to be a sometimes treat. Every time I go remind me that they have a deal on 20 lb bags of rice. I barely have room in the kitchen for my own two feet! If I got a 20 lb bag of rice I would have nowhere to store it, and it would get damp and go bad before I used it all.
But husband saw something in the medicine aisle that I have only read about. They had mutton tallow there, as a salve! Very AOS. And we have a Kipling quote to go with it:
'And if your heels are blistered,
And they feels to hurt like hell,
Just drop some tallow in your socks,
And that'll make them well.
I use Bag Balm.Another goat thing. We started out in 1978, putting it on goat udders. (A goat with mastitis is not what you want at all!) Then we began using it ourselves. After my mom died I snagged her last container from her nightstand. My brother would have pitched it. Now you can buy it on Amazon. I wonder if they sell tallow.
Also, is tallow the same as slush? I bet Nodbear knows. In my stories Horatio and Archie use nard for things that need enhanced sliding. This is because I met that word in Crystal Cave when I was 9, and loved the sound of it. But you know, at sea they may actually have used slush for their.. masts. Archie, as we know, is friends with the cook.
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The Colonials knew all about tallow, saving animal fat all year to boil it down (outdoors!!Horrid smell!!)to make tallow candles.
is tallow the same as slush
I think slush is nautical tallow! I believe slush refers to left over fat from a ship's galley.
As far as slush goes-- I doubt the extra calories did any of them harm! I think many of the guys ate it when they could.
Is that why extra money is called a 'slush fund?'
I had to look this up as I had no idea, you're right though! According to the Online Etymology Dictionary:
"Slush fund is first attested 1839, from an earlier sense of slush "refuse fat" (1756); the money from the sale of a ship's slush was distributed among the officers, which was the original sense of the phrase. The extended meaning "money collected for bribes and to buy influence" is first recorded 1874, no doubt with suggestions of "greasing" palms."
So now we know!
I do know russians like it pure and organic, but mutton tallow on a grocery store? Whaat?
Only thing I can associate with tallow are candles. Or earwax (if it makes sense, tallow and wax can most cases be used as synonyms in Finnish)