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999 Out of a thousand never had that experience. That's really sweet. Everyone is so used to just buying chicken at the store. I don't fault anyone for that. It's just a special experience to raise your own that few people have.
If you hunt, process and eat venison, you're eating free range organic steak and roasts.
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I strung that short paragraph together and had to run off and get something done. Sorry I didn't go into details. I hesitate to talk about hunting online, but your whitetail is a delicacy and healthier meat than anything in Piggly Wigglys, or Walmart. You are very fortunate to have that experience.
Do you still raise chickens?

We do, but on a commercial broiler farm which is something we really don't like or see ourselves doing for much longer. It's not a healthy environment. Several years ago when we lived in another state we had horses, goats, sheep, chickens, and all that good stuff, usually raising a nice sized garden every year. I miss that a lot. Also miss the venison since those brothers don't live at home anymore. But yeah you're right it's such a good meat.

My uncle worked at one of the last holdouts that closed in the late 90's(?)

I just made a little bit of popcorn as an evening snack so I had to use some pork fat because that was what was handy.

Last time I actually "saw" one was in North GA in the early 2000s or thereabouts.

That's was in North GA though and it seems they still exist.




You made stove popcorn in pork fat?!?

I'm quite curious how it was. I've only made it in vegetable oil and coconut oil. Vegetable oil seems to cook a bit easier and smokes less but the taste is different...can't say which is better really at present. Coconut is healthier though so I shoot for that usually.

We do, but on a commercial broiler farm which is something we really don't like or see ourselves doing for much longer. It's not a healthy environment. Several years ago when we lived in another state we had horses, goats, sheep, chickens, and all that good stuff, usually raising a nice sized garden every year. I miss that a lot. Also miss the venison since those brothers don't live at home anymore. But yeah you're right it's such a good meat.

It was a long time ago, so I forgot. Now that I think about it, it likely was the 2000s when he finished there. When Mom took me as a kid, they were the only store with a comercial coffee grinder. Someone could pour a bag of 8O'clock coffee beans thru it and it smelled so good halfway across the store. I didn't know they had any more open.

If you use pork fat, you have to watch the heat. If there's any meat left on your hog jawls, or whatever you use, it will burn. I suggest melting the fat first, perhaps from a previous meal and pouring it into a quart size pan or so. You can mix it with coconut oil. I drop a few kernels into it. As soon as they pop, pour in enough to about cover the bottom. Then just watch the heat to make sure it's just hot enough to pop, but not smoke. Wear eye protection like one of those clear shields. I got hot grease splashed IN my eye a couple months ago, so careful because the moisture that condenses on the lid will drop and splatter. Anyhow, it tastes best with the good animal fat, like bacon grease. It's good for you too if it's the non nitrate kind. Dr. Joel Wallace would disagree, but Coconut oil is good too IMHO. On the other hand vegetable oil is either corn, canola or soybean oils. Those are pretty harmful for a lot of reasons. I use those mixed with sticky petroleum for chain saw bar oil and hedge trimmers. I've read that movie theaters use to used coconut oil to pop corn and it was real good in the olden days.

I'll definitely try that out the next time I have some bacon grease. Currently I only have grease from what I call "swine spheres" (bisquik, hot sausage, cheddar rolled into a ball) but I guess some of that would be cheese grease so it wouldn't work? Definitely curious like I said because I like stove "popped" corn rather a lot.