tallow
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Steak ’n Shake dumped vegetable oil—which Kennedy has blamed for fueling obesity and inflammation—in favor of beef tallow, and switched to Grade A Wisconsin butter versus a blend containing seed oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Steak ’n Shake doesn’t make health claims about grass-fed beef or tallow, but the company believes its customers feel better about the chain’s food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
In many corners of the internet, tallow isn’t marketed simply as a moisturizer but as a return to something more primal and distinctly masculine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
All the same, the fatty acid profile of tallow does overlap with some lipids found in human skin and sebum, including palmitic, stearic and oleic acids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Their flesh was crumbling parchment, their bones dry wood soaked in tallow.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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I applied beef and bison tallows from three companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The oil and tallows which are chiefly carbon and hydrogen, unite with the oxygen of the air and form carbonic acid and watery vapor, producing heat during the process.
From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher
Milling-base.—The materials generally used are tallows and cocoa-nut oils of the finest quality.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons
Their only question will be that of their Legendre, or some oilier of their legislative butchers: How he cuts up; how he tallows in the caul or on the kidneys.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
There’s floors upon floors beneath, stored with jute and dye-woods, teas, coffees, spices, tobaccos, and lowest of all on the ground floor and in the cellarage, tallows in great hogsheads.
From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn
"I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When a whaling ship is beset in the ice of Davis Straits, there is little work for her second engineer, once the engines have been nicely tallowed down.
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf
"But in running in for the town, you kept the lead going, out of question, and must have tallowed as usual."
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by James Fenimore Cooper
He tallowed the lead and heaved it, and brought it down to Weeks.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
When that was done, we heeled her, scrubbed her Bottom, and tallowed it.
While the ships, however, were on the keel, and the men busy heaving, scrubbing, and tallowing, they were attacked by a large body of the natives.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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