“See, this situation is why you should never meet your heroes or go behind the curtain and find out about the magic,” eleven-year-old Velma Trent said to seven-year-old Amanda Ludlow.
“This situation is why I am a vegetarian,” Amanda said as the two girls watched the aftermath of a kitchen exploration gone wrong in the Trent home as Thomas Stepforth, maternal grandfather to Velma, took his turn making breakfast, and Velma's nine-year-old brother Milton saw something he was not ready for.
Mr. Stepforth was a billionaire, so if he wanted to fry his bacon in ghee and plenty of it, he did that. The issue was that ghee, being clarified butter, could cook to very high temperatures, so it was really hot when Mr. Stepforth put the grate on which he had placed several just-warmer-than-freezing slices of Barnard's Best Bacon into it.
Milton had come in and seen that bacon dancing around and not understood and gone to running and yelling...
“It's alive! The bacon is still alive! RUN!”
Nine-year-old George Ludlow had forgotten that he was grounded and had answered the call, and now the two boys were running all over the yard talking about how many situations and reasons that bacon had to get revenge for all its friends that had been eaten...
“Yeah, I see how being a vegetarian keeps you out of these discussions, Amanda,” Velma said.
“More pork, more problems,” Amanda said as her grandfather, Capt. R.E. Ludlow, came off the porch at her house while Velma's father Sgt. Vincent Trent came off the porch at their house, whereupon this became a foot race … but no one running remembered to go around the spot of the quicksand experiment....
“Well,” Amanda said, “if they become one with the mud, maybe they will understand where the pigs are coming from and where the bacon is coming from, and not kill pigs or each other!”
“Well,” Velma said, “we see our soldier forebears know to crawl out to solid ground and George and Milton don't, so they are definitely getting a full taste of why you don't do quicksand experiments on the lawn.”
The two boys were yelling and screaming and slipping and flipping and flopping until they were rescued by the captain and sergeant and just held for a while – George was having a full panic attack and Milton was close – before all the explanations started and things turned out all right. It was just a big misunderstanding, after all.
Inside the Trent house, Mr. Stepforth had moved on to calmly making omelettes in the combined ghee and bacon fat, unmoved by the goings-on outside.
“There are people who do those things,” he said with a smile to his daughter, Mrs. Melissa Trent, who was getting ready to put the big fruit salad he had made first on the table.
I too would like to be a vegetarian, but meat calls to me.
It is hard to do to get the protein, and certain nutrients ... not everyone can, and not everyone can do it at every period of their lives. You have to know why your body is calling for meat, and see if you can fill the nutrient gaps.
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Have you ever seen frog legs being fried? You would scream ---THEY ARE---
!ALIVE -- !LOL
My mother told me that, and I thought about using that! But then I thought about something more accessible ... those of us with Southern roots, though, know about those frog legs...
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