Crisco was a cheap, white, Proctor & Gamble vegetable shortening introduced in 1911. Its ingenious marketing tag proclaimed that the "Hebrew race has been waiting 4,000 years" for Crisco.
Heh, who knew? I cook with corn oil; I use Crisco only for greasing pans.
Crisco is very unhealthy. People didn’t know it then.
Crisco was a very big deal when I was a kid in Israel. We had ifffy electricity and iffy supply chain, even in the 1970s. Having a fat you could safely expose to poor storage was a huge deal.
But yes terrible for you. We’ve switched to olive oil (native) and real butter, and just went gladly back to being more careful.