Over My Dead Fat Back!

The Lard Experiment! A Story, and then some.


Where do I begin? Is it with the hours of phone calls to butchers to find a supply of animal fat - only to find out I had to go to a federally inspected butcher? Is it hauling my two children and a friend's son on a road trip 2 hours from my home to pick it up (telling them we were going to the zoo which was a short stop on the way home)? Would it be droning on to the poor butcher on the other end of the line about different fats and can I buy them separated? He is a small town butcher completely unaware of the undercurrent...

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