Fat for Freedom!

If you did not know by now, we have everything in Maryland!  We even have a Berlin, a lovely little city with a historic downtown.  My friends and I stopped there one noon and found it appropriate to have a Hamburger in a place called Rayne's Reef*.  The place was nice and made me nostalgic of Hamburger places back home.

There was another reason the place seemed familiar!  Oh, wow, they had filmed the "Runaway Bride" there.  How lovely to eat where Julia Roberts and Richard Gere were making a film and sharing a meal.  Well, I am diverging from the real lesson of that day.  The restaurant was full of images and reminders of the World War II.  There was a sign encouraging people or maybe the workers and the Chef not to throw away extra and unwanted fats.  Why?  They were used for making gunpowder!  Did you know that?  Apparently, housewives were encouraged to save fat for freedom!

* http://www.raynesreef.com/