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In 1906, lard (and to a lesser extent, more expensive butter) was used for all manner of cooking across America as a fat base for cookies, pies, cakes, etc…
Lard is rendered from pork. Beef fat renders into tallow, which has many domestic uses also.
A tin of lard, however, was a staple in virtually every home kitchen in the early 1900’s.
When the fiction work The Jungle by Upton Sinclair published, exposing in its fictional pages the brutal reality of the then Chicago meatpacking industry, a different industry saw their chance and jumped.
Keep in mind that Sinclair had illustrated in the book a situation where poor immigrant workers sometimes stumbled into monstrous vats of lard being rendered, were boiled alive, and became part of the finished product sold to an unwitting public.
This “fictional” imagery was an outrage to people across America who heard of it.
The social impact of this novel cannot be understated.
In the pre-Internet, pre-television era, the fictional description of the dolorous conditions of the…
