Pickles by Brian Crane for February 23, 2016

Earl looks fascinated.

Looks like Earl is not the only one who screws uponce in a while.

I’ll take your word for it Opal…..but somewhat doubtful.

I don’t think she meant like popped corn, I think she meant like it pops out of the pan as in like when you forget to cover regular corn in the microwave and you get a mess because it kind of explodes but not like pop corn just messy sticky stuff….Anyway, Opal, try some cream of tartar, or bar keepers friend on that pan :)

Opal is giving Earl a bad idea LOL

GREAT..!!! – Now, I’m in the mood for POPCORN – THANKS OPAL.!!!!

And if you forget to cut an x in chestnuts for the steam to escape, they will pop as well, all over the kitchen. After turning off the heat, I took shelter beside the refrigerator until it stopped. I’ll never forget to do that again!

Once set a pan of eggs on the stove to hard boil and forgot about them. Burned the pot dry, our smoke detector when off, but we were asleep and didn’t hear it, and the alarm company automatically call the fire department.

THAT we heard.

I will take your word, I am not about to test that!!!

Opal’s has popcorn for a brain… She’s Cornie.

I am sitting here imagining the aroma of burnt pan and corn wafting through the house…ah… think I’ll open all the doors and windows and go visit the neighbors for a while.

Did you know that if you leave a gas stove on at very low heat under the Teflon coated pan filled with the grease you just generated by cooking bacon and go off to college classes for the afternoon, when you return you will have a gummy, sticky mess that can only be resolved by throwing out the pan? I learned that nearly 50 years ago. First person I knew to stick up a non-stick pan. I don’t know how Silverstone would react to the same scenario, and I hope I never learn.

Darn I wish she had done this a few months ago. I threw out a revere ware dutch oven. :-(

I wonder how many kids are going to try this to see if it works.

Sorry, Opal but Earl doesn’t seem interested in your trivia.

xxx

as mark twain said—the boy who carries the cat by the tail is getting all kinds of experience. chances are he won’t do that again