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unusual facts about tallow


Tallow

Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, the McDonald's corporation cooked its French fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil.


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Borneo tallow nut oil

Borneo tallow nut oil is extracted from the fruit of species of genus Shorea, which is native to Sarawak, Borneo, Java, Malaya and the Philippines.

Jutiapa

Local crafts include candles (both tallow and paraffin type); woven hats and other palm products; leather saddles, belts, and riding gear; and traditional ceramics.

Robert Deane

Sir Robert Deane, 5th Baronet (c. 1707–1770), Irish MP for Carysfort and Tallow

The Tallow Candle

Christian Graugaard, a Danish poet and professor of sexology, has analyzed the tale as a covert autoerotic tale, in which the candle symbolizes the phallus and the melting tallow the semen in an ejaculation.

A tallow candle, whose parents are a sheep and a melting pot, becomes more and more disheartened as it cannot find a purpose in life.


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