The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Mr442]

The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges.  Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard.  I thought I was gonna barf   For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately.  Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision.  Other than that, the trip was great.

[Henry Hawk]

The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges.  Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard.  I thought I was gonna barf   For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately.  Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision.  Other than that, the trip was great.

I use Emge Lard for cooking quite often.  My mother-in-law uses it for EVERYTHING, and she got me hooked on it.

I'm glad I did not share your field trip experience with you 442....

[Exterminator]

Is lard that thick, white crap in the can?  Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body?  For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer.  I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night.  Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat.  Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best!  We shall see...

[followsthewolf]

Domesticated goose...........wellllllllll.....ok.

Wild goose........

[me]

Is lard that thick, white crap in the can?  Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body?  For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer.  I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night.  Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat.  Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best!  We shall see...

Lard makes excellent pie crust.    I roasted a goose one time and screwed up and ate the liver....won't do that again.... The goose was quite good though.

[Henry Hawk]

Is lard that thick, white crap in the can?  Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body?  For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer.  I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night.  Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat.  Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best!  We shall see...

I'm not sure how bad it really is........my mother-in-law has used it in about everything she fries and is 86 years old..and going very strong......and, it in my opinion enhances the flavor of fried foods........it is used a lot in the south and in most soul foods...lard is a must.....

but, I truly do not want to experience what 442 did on his field trip and ruin it for me.........although, I do us evoo in some of my cooking...and like it just fine.

[Mr442]

Lard is that "white crap" in the can.  It is basically nothing more than the cooled/congealed liquid that is produced by cooking animal fat.  Peolple have been making it forever.  The small of it coooking during the rendering is very strong.  Heating up lard to cook with does not smell all that bad.

http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-render-lard.html

[Ma and Pa]

442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!

And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!

[Ma and Pa]

Pa,

I never got to buy lunch. It was always a packed sandwich or nothing if there was a noon dance. Then, I'd just dance. PM me and tell me who Ma is, okay?  But ask her if she remembers the SMELL of that cafeteria. I can still smell it today. I used to have junior high math in it after lunch in 8th grade. Blech!
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Gardengirl: You knew Ma as Kay; she had a sister, Sue (MHHS '65), and a brother, Rick (MHHS '69). Couldn't PM you because no address was accessible. And yes, she remembers that smell-- she had a class in the cafeteria, too; not right after lunch, fortunately. What nerve, expecting kids to get an education in a non-air conditioned school with uncarpeted floors AND it smelled like food! Shades of Abu-Ghraib prison! Derisive Pa

[Ma and Pa]

442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!

And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!

[Ma and Pa]

The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges.  Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard.  I thought I was gonna barf   For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately.  Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision.  Other than that, the trip was great.

[Ma and Pa]

442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!

And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!

[me]

 

[Gardengirl]

Pa,

Offhand, I am thinking of a Kay whose last name began with M. Am I right???

[Gardengirl]

I never went to Emge's, but had a relative that worked there. Those hotdogs are cooked in the processing, so you can pull any hotdog out of a package and eat it raw.