Ever heard of Crisco? It was the world’s first industrial cooking fat — made from hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Not butter. Not olive oil. Not lard. Cotton waste, whipped into something that looked like food. It hit the shelves in 1911, just before WWI and the Spanish Flu. With real food harder to find, Crisco was pushed as the clean, modern option. And people used it — not because they wanted to, but because they needed to. No judgment. It was survival. But here’s the thing… That temporary fix n

Crisco – The Laboratory Product That Changed American Cooking