CNN is running a report on Critical things to know about your cholesterol, which is actually reasonable, and is important to young women, now that medicine has finally recognized that women can have heart attacks.
It is important to note for Huckabee supporters that in addition to harboring the fleas that carry the plague, squirrels are high in cholesterol, even if they are not deep fried in a popcorn popper.
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I didn’t realize people deepfried squirrels in popcorn poppers. Is that how we get popped corn? Deep frying? I learn something new every day!
Mike Huckabee has said that he did it in college. Normally there isn’t enough oil in the popper when you make popcorn to qualify as deep frying.
Technically making popcorn in the traditional way is not technically “deep frying” since there is very little oil used and should in fact be completely consumed in the popping process. Deep frying is more traditionally considered immersing the food in hot oil/fat and retrieving it after cooking leaving the large bath of hot oil/fat pretty much intact. “Deep Frying” popcorn wouldn’t be pretty if the popped kernels sat in the pool of hot fat/oil while the rest were popping.
Unless it was butter, which is the only way to eat popcorn, and a good way to start a fire.
But Bryan, squirrel gumbo is *good*…
And yes, I’ve eaten it. As well as alligator gumbo, duck gumbo, rabbit gumbo, …
— Badtux the Cajun Penguin
My Whirley-Pop travels with me. I use it just with popcorn though…Preferably White Cat Popcorn.
Rabbit is the best, and I don’t like okra. My former next door neighbor was from Louisiana and she grew her own okra to make it. That was good.
Actually, Jill, doing it on the stove top is the only way to go. You never know what’s in the microwave variety, and they don’t do the butter properly.
i’d never had anything but jiffy pop as a kid. the first time i made popcorn on the stove, i had no idea how much to use. i think the kitchen was ankle-deep in popcorn before it was all over.
I remember the scene well:
“Isn’t that a lot of popcorn?”
“It’s just one bag.”
“The whole bag?”
“Didn’t you ever watch your Mom cook anything? You always use the whole bag.
[fifteen minutes later]
“How big was your family?”