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Bringin' home the bacon grease
Published: 7/19/2011 4:01 PM
Last Modified: 7/19/2011 4:01 PM

Each of these women can bring home pork products, fry it and simultaneously keep their spouse or boyfriend from forgetting they are, indeed, male.

Remember that commercial for Enjoli perfume by Charles of the Ritz?

"I can bring home the bacon (Enjoli!), fry it up in a pan (Enjoli!), and never, never, never make you forget you're a man 'cause I'm a woman -- ENJOLI!" Stuff could probably peel paint off a wall, but it brings back sweet memories of the late '70s and early '80s. (Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4MwbVf5OA).

I haven't been able to get it off my mind today because my sweet co-worker Cathy gave me some bacon grease to take home with me. No, I don't plan on using it as a dip (although I may have entertained the possibility for half a second).

Another co-worker, Charlotte, gave me some zipper peas from her garden. Y'all remember me telling you about those? I'll fill you in better next Tuesday after I cook 'em this evening or next, but my I've only ever heard about them in south Mississippi, where Mom and Mamaw Wright would cook them -- with bacon grease, of course. Love me some garden-fresh veggies, and I'd eat them plain. But with a little bacon grease? Mmmm, child ...

I was just talking with our beloved food writer Natalie about bacon grease, and how we remember our mamas and grandmothers using it. Mamaw would keep hers in a little Tupperware-like dish, and it seems Mom did the same.

But despite how horrible my eating habits have been lately, I've never actually cooked with bacon grease. I'm hoping I don't screw up the pot of peas I'm already salivating over with too much grease. So kindly keep your fingers crossed that I don't ruin the whole mess.

Peas, love and bacon grease ... XOXO

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Goofy1 (last year)

You're the best, Jason! Keep up the good work!!!

its only my opinion but (last year)

I cooked my green beans and potatoes with a little grease just last night. Everything's better with bacon (grease)!

Sunkist Lady (last year)

glad you found you some zipper peas!!

Loophole (last year)

A small metal coffee percolator used to sit on top of the range above the pilot light which would keep the bacon grease from firming. It would be strained through the perc basket and used on all sorts of things. We're talking 1950's. Now we don't have pilot lights, few will admit to using bacon grease, and metal coffer percolators, as far as I know, are primarily found at the Army Surplus store as camping equipment.

futureview (last year)

I haven't thought of that commercial in years....oh yea...Enjoli.

My two sisters and I would entertain each other by re-enacting it, complete with hip action...ahhh...memories!

Love ya, Jason-

Double D

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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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