Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	Can we have watermelon for dessert?
Date:	11/4/2014 3:50:34 PM

Roland Martin: “So can we, if we go out to the polls, can we, say, we have a souls to polls on Sunday, can we do soul food after we vote?”

Michelle Obama:  “Absolutely. I give everyone full permission to eat some fried chicken after they vote. Only after, if you haven’t voted… You make a good point. Because I am, I do talk about health. But I think that a good victory for Democrats on Tuesday, you know, should be rewarded with some fried chicken.”

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Can we have watermelon for dessert?
Date:	11/4/2014 6:42:22 PM

I don't know which is more stupid - the question or the answer.  I really cannot stand Michele Obama.  She's as much of a diva as Hiliary Clinton ever was. 

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question was worse
Date:	11/5/2014 7:58:24 AM

But the answer wasn't much better.  Fried chicken?!?!?  Simply unbelievable....but having said that I love soul food but man is it fattening.  I have to stay away but I have fond memories of flour coated chicken in an electric frying pan with Crisco when I was growing up.  Even my Mom today won't do that anymore.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question was worse
Date:	11/5/2014 9:06:55 PM

Nothing against Fried Chicken (have the same memories with my grandmother's chicken).

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question was worse
Date:	11/5/2014 9:52:14 PM

Oh me either.....maybe no better way to prepare chicken......just as I get older and fatter I have to avoid the really good stuff.  Thanks be to God that red wine doesn't carry the same baggage.  However, I do make a mean beer butt chicken on my Big Green Egg, but it isn't fried chicken sadly.  

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/5/2014 11:12:15 PM

I was talking to a vascular doctor at at a backyard party about food. He said that he tries to impress on patients that what they eat today, tomorrow, and the next day will not effect them in the short term. However, as they grow older all the fried and grease they ate over the years takes its toll. 

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/6/2014 10:12:53 AM

Funny, that is where I am about eating organic.  I try to buy organic milk, meats, etc, but I know full well that I have probably already eaten so many food-contained chemicals and hormones and all those other "bad" things in my life, that what I am doing now probably won't make a bit of difference. 

MM, now you've got me craving really good fried chicken.  I may have to make it, even if it takes a few weeks off my life.  And I'll add a TBSP of bacon fat to the crisco to give it great color. 

Name:	CAT BOAT -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/6/2014 12:46:52 PM

Dang yall.....  I think I will go eat at Popeye for lunch. 

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	My solution
Date:	11/6/2014 1:06:09 PM

Just head on over to KFC (Keep From Cooking) and get a bucket of the Colonel's double secret receipe. It's finger licking grease dripping good.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/6/2014 4:17:09 PM

So a touch of bacon grease will make it come out more golden brown?  I didn't know that but I don't use Crisco so does it do the same with vegetable oil?  I only use Crisco for greasing pans for baking.  I'm sure we all remember the "it all comes back but one tablespoon" commercial from the 70's.  I still don't beleive it.

The south gets lambasted for frying everything but lately I have seen some things on TV that blew me away.  I started watching a couple of cooking competition shows (MasterChef and Cut Throat Kitchen) and have been amazed at what they will fry.  In one show I saw Romain lettuce hearts, Brussell Sprouts, and Kale freid.  Frying a leaf vegetable such as these has never crossed my mind.

The Masterchef Junior edition that started this week is incredible.

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/6/2014 5:39:01 PM

When I finished at Auburn in '67, I went to St. Louis to work and in '68 married a midwest girl.  She was from a large Catholic family and they took great pleasure in initiating a southern boy to things I had never eaten.  I'll mention a couple of examples. 

Since "meatless Fridays" were still observed back then, I was treated to "creamed tuna on toast" on many of those days.  It reminded me of the old military staple of "creamed chipped beef on toast" (SOS in military terms).  It wasn't fried and it wasn't good.

The other delicacy on the menu at times was "wilted lettuce."  This was leaf lettuce fried in bacon grease.  Other than 'chittlins', that was the first fried food I never liked.

After 46 years, they're not too bad. 

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/6/2014 5:56:53 PM

The first time I fried a turkey made me wonder why it took so long to realize how bad baked turkeys had been all those years.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Bacon Grease
Date:	11/6/2014 10:24:06 PM

Yes, it even works with Canola oil.  I don't know why it works.  I read it in Martha Stewart one time and tried it. 

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	I know this isn't the cooking forum
Date:	11/6/2014 10:27:32 PM

But, I recently found out about something called Leaf Lard.  Supposedly it doesn't have all those nasty, artery clogging properties of regular lard.  I bought some, but haven't had occassion to use it yet. 

Name:	buzzbuster -	Reply
Subject:	Bacon Grease
Date:	11/7/2014 12:09:55 AM

 I know lard and the likes are bad for you to use cooking some of the best tasting foods you can enjoy eating. I wish you could just ask my Grandmother how bad it is to use them but she died at the early age of 94. I tell you she made a lot of people young and old happy with her cooking and passed alot of her cooking secrets along .  Bless her .

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	My answer is the question
Date:	11/7/2014 12:47:39 PM

I agree 100%.  They are so moist when fried.  The last couple of years our gathering for Thanksgiving has shrunk a little so last year I just bought a turkey breast and fried it in the cooker.  Best turkey I ever had.  When I do whole birds I like to get two different injectable marinates and put them on oppisite sides of the bird.  It is a very easy way to satisfy the tastes of a large crowd too.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Possibly the best hijacked thread ever!
Date:	11/7/2014 8:01:41 PM

This has been the very best hijacked, misdirected, off topic thread ever.  The only downside is I have gained 4 pounds and seen my LDL/HDL numbers go off the charts just reading this........thank goodness my annual physical isn't until February. I will be on kale amd distiller water until then just to get back to normal.  Bacon grease, fried chicken and turkey, crisco.........wow!

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	Possibly the best hijacked thread ever!
Date:	11/7/2014 8:51:33 PM

My doctor recommended I take four fish oil capsules a day to lower my triglyceride level.  I look on the bottle label one day and see that each pill contains 20 mg of cholesterol.  Might as well start back eating my fried chicken livers.