That's what you can say next time you're served up a snack whose list of ingredients consists of many chemicals that you can't even pronounce. I was rummaging around in my cupboards, refrigerator, freezer, and grocery store and these are some of the intersting things I found listed in the ingredients. I only list those ingredients that sound like interesting chemicals or seem particulary gross. Lard or animal fat works better for this but is much more expensive to buy industrially than vegetable oils, and the thought of animal lard in food grosses some people out.
Solid fats have very saturated carbons in the fatty acid portion of the lipid molecule.
So , to solve this problem of cost versus solidity of oil, food manufacturers make solid vegetable oils by hydrogenating them. The hydrogen is added across the double bond and thus creates a saturated carbon chain. Well it turns out that hydrogenating vegetable oils also helps keep them from going rancid. MSG An acronym for monosodium glutamate. It sounds like it should be an ingredient in shampoo instead of food.