Recently I was chatting with a friend and somehow the topic of bacon came up (What, you don’t casually converse about bacon with your friends?). I mentioned cooking a pound and saving the drippings for cooking, then said “you save your bacon fat for cooking too, right?”
“What? No, we pour it off and let it solidify then throw it away”
If you’ve never heard a grown Brillig cry, this is definitely one way to make that happen. I really thought that everyone who ate bacon also cooked with bacon fat. But nope, not so.
I had this same experience back in 2015 when former MA Governor Michael Dukakis shared his love of soup made with the leftover Thanksgiving turkey carcass and said he’d accept ones people weren’t going to use. My first thought was that NO ONE would have a spare carcass because of COURSE people made turkey stock with it!! Little did I know how many people did not, in fact, do so. So many people try to give him turkey carcasses he now has to implore people NOT to give them to him, but instead to Please Make Your Own Soup (and gives a recipe).
I’m betting each of you has something you do that you’ve been shocked to find out everyone else does NOT. I’d love to hear your appropriate-for-all-ages (because, yes I know what you were just thinking there) examples in the comments, after hopping the story break and enjoying the trio of Top Comments, Mojo and Pictures we’ve got for you tonight!
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From indycam:
I think this comment by Osiris is tops. From Joe Pac’s Looks like shit is going down in Texas today - stay away from Austin right now
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