We’ve gotten to experience a new taste sensation since Gma moved in. Yes, it’s lard. She kept a quart sized container in my refrigerator at all times. My daughter, Andrea, ate some potatoes that Gma had fried in this special substance. She said it tasted good, but her mouth felt and tasted funny the rest of the night. She had to gargle before bed to get the taste out of her mouth. When she laid down to sleep, the lard kept talking to her in her stomach. It hurt for quite a while.
I could tell she did something different with those potatoes, because my teeth felt furry the rest of the evening. My tongue felt like it was coated in wax, and I felt like I had a lead ball in my belly. When asking her the next day how she cooked it, she said “In lard, don’t you cook with lard?” No, I said. She tells her daughter that I cook funny. I spray the pan before I cook and don’t put any lard in it. Gma also says that the doctor says she has lived this long because of lard. Maybe it coats the inside of your body and it never ages in there.
She cooked hot dogs for my husband, Tom and his friend, when they were working on our deck one Saturday, while I was working. Yes, she fried hot dogs in lard. It’s a wonder they could pick up the buns with the heavy dogs in them. And that’s where the fried potatoes came in also. So if I look a little lethargic, it may be the lard. I wonder what cleans it out of your system. Hmmm, maybe vinegar…..