I remember I promised a really gross story about peanut oil.
Last Thanksgiving, Scott deep-fried a turkey. It was great. Definitely the preferred method if you're forcing yourself to eat turkey once or twice a year.
He left the oil in the deep-fryer, covered it up/sealed it, and kept it in the garage, which is attached to the house. At some point, the fryer got kicked or pushed around and came unsealed and he hadn't gotten around to disposing of it. Fast forward to February-ish...someone (Scott) didn't shut the garage door leading to the house the entire way before going to work.
I came home from work and found a huge pile of dog throw-up in our bathroom/bedroom. I was super confused because there were chicken bones in it. Mav was crated at that time, so I knew it was Scout.
We figured out that the door to the garage had been open enough for him to sneak in while I was at work and he worked his way into a trash bag that had some wing bones in it. But it did not account for the amount of grease in the throw-up. We were seriously confused for a week and I spent every single day cleaning that carpet. I don't even remember how I eventually got it clean, but it took weeks.
Anyway, Scout the dog had busted into the old peanut oil and drank it. That was what the evidence showed.
So. Now I can't see peanut oil or deep-fried turkeys without thinking of this.
We baked our turkey this year.
I took this picture of the peanut oil in Walmart last month to send to Scott to remind him.












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