In the early 1990s Mcdonalds in Australia shopped cooking their chips (I refuse to use the word fries in this context) in beef dripping. By no coincidence whatsoever, that’s also when the flavour of the product changed & not for the better.
Any frying I do at home is with the products of live or dead cattle: beef dripping if I can’t get any ghee.
With a growing Asian population in these parts, more & more little Indian/Sri Lankan grocery stores are popping up locally. It’s actually reasonably easy to source ghee now. The best stuff I’ve found is a lille rarer, being 50% buffalo/50% cow’s milk sourced.

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