On the recordNovember 9, 2001
When I was a young man, which was quite a while ago, I worked in a meat shop in a coal mining camp. All of the ladies who came to the store, including my mother and my wife's mother, bought lard. Those coal miners, before they went into the bowels of the earth and did that back-breaking work, ate sausage and bacon fried in a deep skillet with lard. We never heard of the word ``cholesterol'' in those days. That is a new word in my lexicon, coming along probably about in the middle of my life. So I was interested when the Senator used the words ``larding up.'' Was he talking about a spending measure or was he talking about pork? What did the Senator have reference to? I missed that. Would he say that again?
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