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.
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